{"id":2310,"date":"2016-09-29T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2020-07-20T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:59:36","slug":"chung-named-one-of-the-most-influential-women-in-health-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/2016\/09\/chung-named-one-of-the-most-influential-women-in-health-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chung named one of the most influential women in Health IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small;\">Originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/som-vital-signs\/2016\/sept-29\/chung-named-one-of-the-most-influential-women-in-health-it\">UNC Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Recently Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, MMCi, Diplomate of Clinical Informatics, and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine, was named one of the most influential women in Health IT by FierceHealthcare. This annual list is compiled with the help of nominations from readers\/industry leaders, and focuses on individuals who have been at the forefront of merging patient care with technology.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2268\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 305px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-295x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-1006x1024.png 1006w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-768x782.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-600x611.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung.png 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, MMCi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part of what the website had to say about Chung and her work:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why she\u2019s influential:<\/strong>\u00a0Chung works to both increase and enhance the use of technology to improve health care. One such project she helped to lead involved the development of a patient-powered research network for sufferers of inflammatory bowel disease as part of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The network allows for patients to complete surveys and contribute health data via mobile health apps and devices; patients also are able to view their own data and trends.<\/p>\n<p>You can read their full entry\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/special-report\/arlene-chung\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, she sat down for a 5 Questions interview, which you can read\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/news\/2014\/december\/information-for-the-people\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, MMCi, Diplomate of Clinical Informatics, and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine, was named one of the most influential women in Health IT by FierceHealthcare. This annual list is compiled with the help of nominations from readers\/industry leaders, and focuses on individuals who have been at the forefront of merging patient care with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79967,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","tag-arlene-chung","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-295x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-768x782.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-1006x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1167\/2020\/07\/Arlene_Chung-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"Faculty News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/category\/news\/faculty-news\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"Arlene Chung","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/tag\/arlene-chung\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}