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I am attending the CHIME CIO Forum this morning at McCormick Convention Center in Chicago. Robert Kolodner, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, was a last minute add-on speaker for the CIO Forum. He provided generic opening comments and promoted the town hall meeting this afternoon. He was very gracious to his replacement, David Blumenthal, coming in a couple of weeks. Dr. Kolodner was given the CHIME Distinguished Service to the Healthcare Industry IT Award. He believes that we are at the tipping point in healthcare IT and that we will see true movement. There is no stopping it now.