HIMSS Analytics has awarded three hospitals of the Munster, Ind.-based Community Healthcare System with Stage 7 of its EMR Adoption Model.
Stage 7 is the highest level of the model, representing an advanced patient record environment. During the second quarter of 2015, only 3.7 percent of the more than 5,400 U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database received the Stage 7 Award.
"The achievement of HIMSS Level 7 builds upon a long history of our hospitals using technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care," said John Gorski, president and CEO of Community Healthcare System. "Through the process of integrating an electronic medical record system and leveraging other advances in information technology, Community Healthcare System has become a much more data-driven organization. Most importantly, we are using these new technologies to better engage our patients and the medical community in understanding how best to bring about improvements in healthcare."
The Community Healthcare System hospitals will be recognized at the 2016 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition beginning Feb. 29 in Las Vegas.
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