TriHealth achieves EMRAM Stage 7
Four TriHealth hospitals have achieved Stage 7 EMR Adoption Model Awards, along with 131 of its associated ambulatory clinics located throughout Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana achieving Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards.
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of EMR systems for hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database. Stage 7 indicates the top level and an advanced patient record environment. HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model in 2011.
During the first quarter of 2014, only 3.1 percent of the more than 5,400 U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics® Database received the Stage 7 Award, and only 4.54 percent of the more than 24,200 ambulatory clinics in the HIMSS Analytics® Database received the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award.
TriHealth, one of the fastest-growing health systems in Greater Cincinnati, has more than 500 doctors and 11,000 other employees. It operates four hospitals (Good Samaritan in University Heights, Bethesda North in Montgomery, Bethesda Butler in Hamilton and TriHealth Evendale) and more than 130 other locations.
“This is an excellent deployment of an enterprise EHR that proved to be transformational,” said John P. Hoyt, executive vice president of HIMSS Analytics. “TriHealth has been an early adopter of technologies that are just beginning to become mainstream. This is truly an organization that enthusiastically embraces technology to support their core mission.”
TriHealth will be recognized at the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition on April 12-16, 2015, in Chicago.
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