Mike Miliard

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced late Tuesday that its board has selected Colorado Health Medical Group's Russell P. Branzell to serve as its new president and chief executive officer.

"I would characterize this past year as an accelerating year," says John Hoyt, executive vice president of HIMSS Analytics.

I was listening not long ago to All Things Considered, to a story about a new breed of 3D sensor-equipped cameras - artificial eyes, essentially, that can make out shape and form, navigating space and gauging its dimensions.

(SPONSORED) Omar Hussain, President and CEO of Imprivata, speaks with Healthcare IT News Managing Editor Mike Miliard at the 2012 Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston.

(SPONSORED) David Finn, Health Information Technology Officer for Symantec, speaks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain at the 2012 Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston.

(SPONSORED) Patrick Harding, chief technology officer for Ping Identity, speaks with Healthcare IT News Managing Editor Mike Miliard at the 2012 Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston.

Free the data! Empower the patient! Break down those walls! Collaborate! Innovate!

An infusion of cash from Partners HealthCare is set to spur a promising 2013 for Healthrageous, whose health self-management technology traces its roots to Partners' Center for Connected Health.

Disease is too complex to just think your way through it," says Raimond Winslow, director of The Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins. "We can no longer work with what I call purely mental models of how biological systems function in either health or disease."

As the National Football League playoffs kick-off this month, there will be no shortage of excitement on the gridiron. There will also be one big difference taking place behind the scenes: The NFL will make the switch from paper to electronic health records.