NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/01/13 — , a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Dr. Barry Chaiken, chief medical information officer at Infor, alongside Infor customer Joel Vengco, chief information officer at Baystate Health, will be speaking at the CHIME13 Fall CIO Forum. The event brings healthcare chief information officers and leaders of the vendor community and will take place at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., from October 8-11, 2013.

Chaiken and Vengco will be featured speakers on learning to leverage social networking and user experience optimization tools to drive patient-centered clinical workflow. The presentation will explore current trends in the use of social networking tools, best practices in user experience maximization, the impact of social networking tools on clinical workflows, and develop ways to leverage social networks to drive efficiency in clinical workflow.

“The CHIME organization is very fortunate to have healthcare-s most innovative and renowned CIOs and industry professionals from across the country converging in Scottsdale to educate and reinvigorate their peers,” said Keith Fraidenburg, CHIME vice president for education and communications. “For the past 20 years, CHIME has worked diligently to advance the role of healthcare CIO and advocate the effective use of information technology to improve healthcare in the communities they serve. The track sessions at the Fall CIO Forum allow key stakeholders of the healthcare IT industry to hear real-world instances and case studies on strategy and leadership, performance improvement, care transformation, and emerging issues.”

The session will take place on Wednesday, October 9, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PST.

“An entire generation of caregivers now thinks about and utilizes information technology tools in ways unthinkable even ten years ago, so practitioners and technology providers need to keep pace with this shift,” said Dr. Barry Chaiken, CMIO, Infor. “The availability of these new technologies, and more importantly how these technologies can be used in healthcare, asks the question of what is a best practice for leveraging these new tools and can these new tools be the new era of a patient-centric record — a topic we-ll deeply explore at this year-s CHIME13 Fall CIO Forum.”

For a full list of speakers, panels and topics, visit . For more information on Infor Healthcare please visit .

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,400 CIO members and over 95 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit

Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit .

Infor customers include:

19 of the top 20 aerospace companies

12 of the top 13 high tech companies

10 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies

84 of the top 100 automotive suppliers

23 of the top 50 largest US public hospitals

31 of the top 50 industrial distributors

26 of the top 35 global retailers

5 of the top 9 brewers

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