HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwired) — 04/09/15 — Since launching its new social collaboration platform last October, the says it has changed the ways it communicates with its members and is blazing new trails in the areas of healthcare-community networking, collaboration, and education. The announcement from the platform–s architect, , comes less than a week before the opening of 2015 in Chicago. Each year, HIMSS represents one of the most extensive opportunities for in-person collaboration in the healthcare-IT industry.
As the provider of the premier social-collaboration platform designed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, Next Wave Connect maintains and continues to enhance the community collaboration platform for CHIME and its members. Using myCHIME, CHIME members are able to interact with each other as well as the broader healthcare community through Next Wave Connect.
“The myCHIME platform is the next-generation of online communication for CHIME — the vehicle on which 100% of our members engage with us, and, more importantly, engage with one another,” said Russell Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO, Chief Executive Officer and President, CHIME. “As a result of collaboration via myCHIME, issues can be successfully addressed in a matter of weeks, not months; days, not weeks; and minutes, not days.”
According to Branzell, myCHIME allows members to learn and collaborate about anything and everything that affects them as CIOs, including such subjects of immediate impact as Meaningful Use Stage 3, federal government policies and legislation, Washington, D.C. trends, and other issues driven by the evolution of healthcare reform.
“Because myCHIME enables up-to-the-minute, secure, peer-to-peer communication, member CIOs can make informed, quality decisions that shape their organizations for the future of healthcare,” said , Chief Executive Officer, Next Wave Connect. “What makes Next Wave Connect unique, especially in the case of myCHIME, is the ability to facilitate quick but meaningful collaboration between users. To do that, technology alone is not enough: you need to be at the intersection of platform and people. That–s what makes the difference for CHIME and their members.”
Besides providing CIOs access to quick information, the platform also offers CHIME members:
A safe and secure virtual space where members can collaborate, reach broader audiences, establish thought-leadership, and shape conversations about the most pressing issues in healthcare
A means of providing members “heads-up” notices of breaking industry issues, including federal legislation
Guidance for CIOs on how best to communicate with industry and government influencers
Information on how to help health-system employees understand and process new industry rules and requirements
Solutions and other resources that help health systems respond more proactively — and less reactively — to important industry changes
“By giving our members increased visibility to nearly real-time market intelligence and visibility to issues, myCHIME helps members by reducing or preventing what I call –days of pain,–” said Branzell. “Today, myCHIME is woven into the natural workflow of our members– lives. Wherever they are, it is.”
Next Wave Connect, a Houston-based healthcare social collaboration company, is owned by Next Wave Health. Next Wave Connect is the first healthcare industry-specific, smart social collaboration application connecting healthcare professionals and peers — of all types, across healthcare organizations — providing a platform for collectively solving the industry–s most challenging problems. For more information, or to become a Next Wave Connect member, visit .
Gina McAllister
Grasshopper Lane Communications
(802) 952-1048
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