Texas Health Resources receives HIMSS Davies Award

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | EMR/EHR

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society named Texas Health Resources the winner of its 2013 Enterprise HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence. The award recognizes excellence in the use of health IT, in particular with EHR use that improves healthcare processes, patient safety and demonstrates a return on investment.

Texas Health Resources, which encompasses 13 acute-care hospitals and one transitional care hospital, experiences more than 1.3 million inpatient and outpatient visits, including 24,000 deliveries and 469,000 emergency visits. Through its innovative use of health IT, the organization’s implementation of a modified early warning system, clinical decision support protocol and advanced clinical analysis allowed it to improve outcomes for cardiac patients, reduce cases of venous thromboembolism and significantly cut hospital-acquired infections, according to HIMSS.

“As reflected in its submitted case studies, this organization is a pioneer with respect to using evidence-based medicine in the EHR order sets, alerts, care plans, etc., to improve the clinical quality outcomes for their patients,” said Janis Curtis, chair, Davies Enterprise Committee, and business relationship director at Duke University Health System, in a statement.

Texas Health Resources will receive recognition at the HIMSS Conference and Exhibition in Orlando in February 2014.

Laura Pedulli

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