Adele Allison

As the senior director of content and experience for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the leading organization for CIOs and senior health IT leaders, Adele Allison develops, teaches, and manages content programming, speakers, and faculty for CHIME CIO, CISO, CMIO, and other executive IT provider members.  Having acted as the co-chair of the HHS ONC Beacon-EHR Vendor Affinity Group, Adele served three years on the federal Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) board of directors and 5 years as co-chair for the WEDI Payment Models Workgroup.  Adele has nearly 30 years of healthcare experience spanning matters of industry, health IT and related legislation/regulations.  A published author, Adele is a member of University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) health informatics advisory board on curriculum development and served on UAB’s HITECH Committee for health IT curriculum development under an ONC grant; teaches policy matters to HRSA FORHP grantees for the Georgia Health Policy Center; and is past president of the Alabama Chapter of HIMSS.

2023 Presentation:

As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus observed so long ago, “Change is the only constant.”  Since meaningful use and the sweeping adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) just 12 years ago, the transformation rocket has launched a rapid, complex, and constant redesign of the way humans interact in terms of the definition of teams, remote monitoring, access, and need for advanced, digital.  Digital Behavioral Health has amped up, accelerating telemedicine, wearables, mHealth apps, AI, interoperability, and analytics, just to name a few.  Mix these dynamics with post-pandemic needs, economic shifts, market disruption, regulations, and societal changes, and today’s care providers are being asked to build the plane while flying to achieve modernization.  Join Adele as she delivers some clarity to creating high-performing teams in dynamic times as a digital leader.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to:

• Identify the skills and behaviors of high-performing teams
• Discuss the framework for sustainable change 
• Differentiate between change leadership and change management 
• Construct technological components of a digital behavioral health world