Two hospitals achieve HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7
St. Mary’s Hospital, in Madison, Wis. and SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in Saint Louis, part of SSM Health Care, have been recognized by HIMSS Analytics as Stage 7 hospitals on its EMR Adoption Model. Additionally, Stoughton Critical Access Hospital, Stoughton, Wis., an affiliate of SSM Health Care, has been named as a Stage 7 hospital, and Dean Clinic, Madison, Wis., which is associated with Saint Mary’s Hospital, has been named a Stage 7 Ambulatory Clinic.
“The HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 award is validation of SSM’s long standing intent to assure our patients and healthcare providers that they will have all the information they need to make critical decisions whenever and wherever the patient is seen at SSM,” said Rick Vaughn, MD, CMIO at SSM Health Care. “I am extremely proud of the teams of clinicians and information technology specialists that have worked together for so long and so hard to achieve this goal. Their dedication is a shining example of our mission.”
These hospitals and ambulatory clinic will be recognized at the 2014 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition on Feb. 24-26, 2014, in Orlando, Fla. As of the first quarter 2013, 109 U.S. facilities, or 2 percent, of the more than 5,400 U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database, have been awarded the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award and 175 of 19,234 ambulatory facilities have been awarded the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Ambulatory Award.
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.