Ohio clinics achieve EMRAM Stage 7
MetroHealth clinics have achieved the highest level on the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.
EMRAM tracks progress EMR progress at hospitals and health systems and the 18 MetroHealth clinics in Cleveland have earned the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award.
During the first quarter of 2014, only 4.54 percent of the more than 24,000 U.S. ambulatory clinics in the HIMSS Analytics Database received the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award.
MetroHealth is a public health system committed to providing healthcare to everyone in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and improving the health of the community overall. Its 6,000 employees deliver care to everyone at its main campus, just west of downtown Cleveland, and at 16 community health centers. MetroHealth is home to Cuyahoga County’s only Adult Level I Trauma Center and Comprehensive Burn Care Center.
“MetroHealth has a strong culture of leveraging their EHR to improve clinical and business operations, and staff are encouraged to perform at their highest levels of skill, certification and license,” said John Daniels, CNM, FACHE, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, vice president, strategic relations at HIMSS. “MetroHealth has implemented an automated patient notification system to report incidental findings from test results. For example, if imaging from a trauma case reveals a finding unrelated to the trauma, an automated notification is triggered so that the patient and provider can follow up. MetroHealth has increased patient notification of incidental findings from 36 percent to 100 percent. They have also reduced follow-up time for incidental findings by 68 days.”
MetroHealth will be recognized next April at the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.
Visit the HIMSS Analytics web site for more information on the Stage 7 award.
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