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Chief Nursing Informatics Officer(CNIO) Forum - 2025 Healthcare Technology Conference

Fall Session: September 8-10, 2025 | The Seabird Resort, Oceanside, CA

THMA Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Forum

The Health Management Academy’s Fall Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) Forum is the premier healthcare technology conference for senior nursing informatics executives to connect, lead change, and shape the future of healthcare together. 

The CNIO Forum is your opportunity to gain the latest information on the use of data and informatics to improve nursing systems and fuel practice innovation. Confidential, forthright conversations with industry peers will facilitate the exploration of the nurse staffing crisis, expanding clinical and technological demands, bedside issues like alert fatigue, and clinical decision support.  

THMA's Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) Forum was built exclusively for senior industry executives looking for candid, trusted dialogue and strategic collaboration. Here you will find confidential, in-depth explorations of the future of nursing informatics, and detailed conversations on CNIO influence, innovation, and transformation.  

  • The CNIO Forum offers a highly curated, peer-driven environment. 

  • Our membership is maintained at a strict 1:1 health system to industry attendee ratio. 

  • We design member-led discussions grounded in real-time challenges.  

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The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community

The CNIO Forum creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow health system Chief Nursing Informatics Officers and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders. It is an event designed for collaboration and the exploration of unique ideas that lead to effective solutions for those responsible for resilient, future-looking technological, clinical, and organizational integration.

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  • Member-Driven Content, Curated for CNIOs: All our meetings are built around the priorities that matter most to today’s healthcare CNIOs. Agendas are curated on content areas prioritized by leading health system Chief Nursing Informatics Officers. Members shape forum content to reflect their top priorities including AI integration, nursing resiliency, and advancing the practice of nursing informatics.  

  • The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include health system CNIOs from organizations like Mayo Clinic, Yale New Haven Health, Novant Health, and Intermountain, alongside key industry leaders - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and product and strategy executives. All participants are hand-selected based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation. 

  • A Forum Built for Relationships: Reception-style dinners and informal social gatherings welcome friends and family and facilitate long-term relationship building.  

  • True Partnership: This is a peer-to-peer forum. The industry executives who attend this event want to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections with CNIOs facing similar challenges.  

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Who Attends?

CNIO Forum attendees include CNIOs from the nation’s leading health systems, integrated delivery networks, and flagship hospitals across the country. Every participant is hand-selected to ensure purposeful conversations, strategic alignment, and mutual value, creating opportunities for candid peer engagement and shared problem-solving.

On the health system side, attendees include Chief Nursing Informatics Officers from the nation’s leading health systems. These are the executives charged with expanding the CNIO discipline to meet growing clinical and technological demands.

On the industry side, participation is equally intentional. Attendees are limited to senior executives - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and heads of strategy or product - who are actively shaping the future of healthcare organization growth and interested in firsthand insights on the CNIOs role in integrating diverse disciplines and improving patient care. Each is selected based on their ability to contribute insights, engage as peers, not vendors, and build authentic partnerships with their health system peers.

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“The intimate setting that THMA creates allows my team to have meaningful interactions with CXOs that are influencers and key decision-makers across my full pipeline.” 

— VP, Growth, Industry Member 

Industry Forum Members

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The Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Forum Experience

This is an unparalleled executive healthcare community.  

Each CNIO Forum is a 2.5-day immersive experience with member-led sessions focusing on leadership, innovation, and transformation in nursing informatics. The Health Management Academy’s Fall 2025 CNIO Forum provides original insights and analysis of advancing the CNIO role, AI governance, and building resiliency into nursing operations.  

Recent topics include: 

  • AI Integration in Clinical Practice and Operations: We learn about AI governance, literacy, and change management and discuss how NLP tools can advance clinical decision support and improve nursing workflows.  

  • Advancing Nursing Informatics: We discuss the best practices that are defining and evolving CNIO roles to effectively guide organizations and help them advance their capabilities to meet expanding clinical and technological demands.  

  • Nursing Influence, Innovation, and Transformation: We explore strategies for accelerating technology adoption and positioning nursing informatics as a catalyst for health care innovation, while overcoming resistance and establishing informatics as strategic transformation partners.  

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Our Convening Experiences

The Power of Relationships With Jeff Jones

Join us as Jeff Jones shares his personal experience with The Health Management Academy, which spans over two decades.

The Power of Vulnerability and Collaboration

Beth Walker, CEO of Oschner Baptist, shares how the open, trust-filled environment among C-suite executives allows them to candidly discuss their challenges.

How THMA Has Deepened Healthcare Relationships

Todd Cozzens, Founder of Transformation Capital, shares how THMA has helped deepen his industry connections and relationships.

Investing in Tomorrow's Healthcare Leaders

Andy DeLao, CSO & CMKO at Ge HealthCare, shares his insights and experiences working with The Health Management Academy.

Cultivating Connections with Health System CXOs

Nicole Shingler, VP, Enterprise Revenue Cycle for R1 RCM explains just how much THMA stands apart by cultivating connections within the healthcare industry.

Having a Support System is Critical

Nkem Iroegbu, President of Advocate Health, speaks about having the right support system in the healthcare industry.

How a Sense of Ownership Makes All the Difference

Corey Aferiat, VP at THMA, talks about how members feel a very unique sense of ownership over the forums.

Being Honest & Open in Healthcare

Dennis Murphy President & CEO of IU Health shares how coming to THMA events has helped him professionally.

Extending Value Beyond the Conference 

Members gain access to a year-round ecosystem of insights and engagement through THMA’s Executive Insights Hub. This digital platform discusses trends and challenges in technology, innovation, and digital resilience, as well as trending CXO priorities from large health systems across the country.  

Our other year-round resources include:   

  • Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research. 

  • Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events. 

  • Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who did not attend. 

  • Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge. 

Upcoming 2025 Dates & Details

For over 25 years, The Health Management Academy has convened health system C-suite leaders and select industry executives, curating two-way conversations, collaborative problem solving and thought leadership sharing.  

Join us at one of our upcoming Forums. You can explore dates, locations, and agendas below.

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2025 Fall CNIO Forum

How to Join Our Next Healthcare Technology Conference

Participation in the CNIO Forum is by invitation and curated to ensure the right mix of senior executives from both health systems and industry. If you are a Chief Nursing Informatics Officer or executive looking to deepen your relationships with peer leaders from the nation’s top systems, we’d love to connect. Apply today.

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