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Five Seasoned CIOs Share Practical Insights on Physician Engagement, Career Success

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Carefx Corporation, whose Fusionfx solution suite aggregates patient information across existing systems and offers clinicians single, clinically relevant views of patient information, today released the second in a series of white papers documenting the increasing involvement of healthcare chief information officers (CIOs) and chief medical information officers (CMIOs) in operations and physician engagement and decisions to initiate, postpone or cut IT projects.

"Carefx is proud to have an ongoing role in facilitating dialogue among CIOs and CMIOs who increasingly function as strategists, visionaries and operations executives," said Andrew Hurd, Carefx's Chairman and CEO. "The second Carefx white paper shines a light on professionals who are enthusiastic about newly available IT stimulus funds, but who still face tough financial decisions on IT investments and projects."

The Changing Role of the Healthcare CIO: Expanded Responsibilities in an Era of Economic Constraints was introduced at the April 2009 meeting of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and was complemented by a live CIO/CMIO roundtable where healthcare CIOs and CMIOs shared insights on issues such as data retrieval, shifting roles and business and IT plan integration. These hospital leaders agreed that their ever-expanding roles increasingly involve a great deal of strategic thinking and planning. They also said that they spend much of their time working with clinicians to figure out ways to better utilize the data the organization collects. Said one, "We have spent the last 5 years figuring out how to get data into clinical apps, and now we need to figur
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