Mount Sinai wins HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence
Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City is the winner of the Health Information Management and Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2012 Enterprise HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence. Since 1994, the Nicholas E. Davies Award recognizes excellence in health information technology, specifically excellence in use of the EHR to successfully improve quality of care and patient safety.
The hospital formed a leadership and governance structure as well as the use of a Program Management Office (PMO) to ensure that "stringent program management methodologies" were used throughout the implementation. It also developed a change management program, under the direction of the PMO, which placed clinical champions at the forefront of the transformation. This allowed clinical champions, front line nurses, trainers and other resources to assume ownership of this implementation and therefore drive the clinical transformation.
Mount Sinai's "implementation of healthcare technology has allowed them to reach excellent clinical and financial value in the challenging environment of a medical teaching, patient care, and research facility,” said Eric Hartz, MD, chair of the HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award Committee and CMIO at Trinity Healthcare in Livonia, Mich. “We encourage hospitals looking to implement EHR to review Mount Sinai’s case studies.”
“The long-term benefits of our new EMR system, which I consider the backbone of our care today, are far reaching,” said Kenneth Davis, CEO of Mount Sinai. “It enables new reimbursement models, improvements in safety and quality and accelerated research and innovation.”
Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients in 2011, and approximately 1 million outpatient visits took place. Mount Sinai is a Stage 6 hospital, as measured by the EMRAM evaluation tool.
The EHR continues to serve as a strong enabler for clinical innovation as demonstrated by the Preventable Admissions Care Team and the “Stop Sepsis” initiative, both of which are seeking to improve quality outcomes for patients. Quality, safety and efficiency metrics have improved since system implementation and are apparent in Meaningful Use core and menu objective reporting.
The Mount Sinai Medical Center will be recognized at the 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans in March.
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