This year’s CHIME Fall Forum took place in San Antonio this November. The theme was, Outlaws Wanted: Ride Into the Future of Digital Health, celebrating leaders who challenge conventions and push healthcare IT forward.
- Healthcare IT crossroads: The forum emphasizes that choices made today will define the future of care, innovation, and leadership.
- Community focus: It’s described as a homecoming for digital health leaders, a chance to challenge conventions, spark big ideas, and forge the next frontier
The CHIME Fall Forum was more than a conference, the strategic gathering of healthcare IT leaders focused on innovation, resilience, and patient-centered digital transformation. With its “Outlaws” theme, it called on leaders to break norms and drive bold change in healthcare. The week was filled with Texas flair, going western all the way from cowboy hat, to cowboy boots and oldies but great country music. It was filled with Texas fare, with Tex-Mex, BBQ, Cajun, Catfish, and what would be a Texas gathering without all you can eat Angus beef? A margarita anyone? Or do you prefer long necks? It did not disappoint.
Stay tuned next week as we report and breakdown more of the Forum event.
The Fall Forum is essentially the live, strategic counterpart to the Most Wired survey. The survey benchmarks digital maturity. The Forum shows how leaders are operationalizing those domains in real-world settings. Together, they highlight that governance, interoperability, patient experience, and cybersecurity are not just buzzwords, they’re the top priorities shaping healthcare IT strategy in 2025. The Annual National Trends Report, an in-depth look at the evolving digital health landscape across the United States. Drawn from insights gathered through CHIME’s Digital Health Most Wired (DHMW) Survey, the report highlights the progress healthcare delivery organizations are making to enhance patient care and operational effectiveness as digital health continues to evolve.
Access the full report with visuals, analyses, and expert commentary.
The CHIME Level 10 Awards represent the highest honor in the Digital Health Most Wired (DHMW) survey — recognizing healthcare organizations that have achieved extraordinary digital maturity and innovation. In 2025, only 18 organizations worldwide reached this elite designation.
The CHIME25 Outlaw Awards are one of the signature highlights of the Forum. The awards celebrate digital health “outlaws”, leaders, and organizations who challenge conventions and drive bold innovation in healthcare IT. They recognize those who harness technology to improve patient outcomes, enhance care delivery, and build a more connected and resilient healthcare industry.This year, aligning directly with the forum’s theme: “Ride Into the Future of Digital Health.”
Shout out and congratulation to our friends at Heidi, a fast-growing healthcare AI company, for this year’s 2025 Foundation Partner of the Year award. As the recipient, Heidi demonstrated excellence in partnership, collaboration, and the use of technology to advance healthcare. Although the company only joined CHIME in 2025 and launched its AI scribe less than two years ago, Heidi stood out for its focus on designing solutions around the physician experience — driving higher satisfaction and adoption than competing AI scribes on the market. Read their full press release.
The “Ink Factory” at CHIME25 Fall Forum, sponsored by Doximity
This interactive art experience is designed to capture attendee ideas in real time. Attendees were invited to to share their vision for the future of healthcare by writing or sketching their thoughts directly on the wall. A professional artist then transforms these contributions into a living work of art, evolving throughout the event as more voices are added.
