Calif. hospital earns EMRAM Stage 7
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children's Hospital) in Orange, Calif., has earned HIMSS Analytics' Stage 7 Award, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), which is used to track EHR progress at hospitals and health systems.
Stage 7 is the final stage of the model, representing an advanced patient record environment. During the third quarter of 2014, only 3.4 percent of the more than 5,400 U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics® Database received the Stage 7 Award, according to a release. Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, CHOC Children’s regional healthcare network includes two state-of-the-art hospitals in Orange and Mission Viejo, many primary and specialty care clinics, a pediatric residency program, and four clinical centers of excellence. HIMSS Analytics cited the organization's virtual elimination of serious patient harm events and non-ICU codes through the implementation of a predictive alerting process using their EHR. "Quality is seriously ingrained into this organization’s culture,” said John Daniels, CNM, FACHE, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, HIMSS vice president, strategic relations. CHOC Children’s will be recognized at the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in April in Chicago.
Beth Walsh, Editor
Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.