CHIME offers informatics leadership event

A lot of hospital technology training is built for information technology chiefs, but the people who feel a bad workflow first are usually the doctor clicking through extra screens or the nurse charting the same thing twice. CHIME’s next Informatics Leadership Academy is aimed at that gap, with a 2.5-day program in Irving, Texas, from April 13 to April 15, 2026. (chimecentral.org) CHIME is the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, a professional group for digital health leaders that says it has more than 3,000 members across 58 countries and two United States territories. Its membership includes chief medical information officers and chief nursing informatics officers, which are the executives who translate between bedside care and software systems. (chimecentral.org, chimecentral.org) The academy is being held at the CHRISTUS Health Innovation Center in Irving, and CHIME describes it as an immersive program for chief medical information officers, chief nursing informatics officers, business leaders, and informatics professionals. The stated goal is practical: change clinical workflows, cut documentation burden, and show measurable results in care delivery and financial performance. (chimecentral.org, chimecentral.org) “Informatics” in this setting means using data, software, and process design to make care run more smoothly, like redesigning an airport security line so fewer people get stuck in the same bottleneck. In a hospital, that can mean changing order sets, note templates, alerts, or handoff screens inside the electronic health record. (amdis.org, chimedigitallearning.squarespace.com) That sounds narrow until you look at where hospitals lose time. CHIME says this program focuses on reducing documentation burden, which is the pileup of clicks, duplicate fields, and inbox tasks that can turn a routine patient visit into extra computer work after hours. (chimecentral.org, chimecentral.org) The event also includes a Parkland Health tour, which shows CHIME wants attendees to see operations in a live health system rather than only hear slide presentations in a conference room. The registration flow for the 2026 academy includes a dedicated Parkland Health tour step, and CHIME’s announcement says the visit is part of the program. (chime.swoogo.com, x.com) Parkland is not a random stop. Parkland Health is Dallas County’s public hospital system, and its main hospital opened in 2015 with 862 beds, making it one of the largest public hospital campuses in the country. (parklandhealth.org, parklandhealth.org) CHIME has run versions of this training before under the name Clinical Informatics Leadership Boot Camp, which taught through case studies, small-group discussion, and interactive problem solving. The 2026 academy looks like the same basic idea with a sharper emphasis on informatics leadership across both physician and nursing roles. (chimecentral.org, chimedigitallearning.squarespace.com) The timing also tells you what kind of market CHIME sees. CHIME’s own calendar puts the academy next to other short executive programs rather than semester-long courses, which fits hospital leaders who can leave for two or three days but not for a university certificate program. (chimecentral.org, chimecentral.org) So this is less a trade-show event and more a compressed operating-room for workflow redesign: a few days, a host site inside a major Texas health system, and a room full of leaders whose job is to make software stop getting in the way of care. That is a small promise, but in hospitals, small workflow fixes are often the ones staff feel by the next shift. (chimecentral.org, chimecentral.org)