HIMSS Analytics Honors Orange Regional Medical Center With EMRAM Stage 7 Award

HIMSS Analytics awarded Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC), in Middletown, N.Y., with a Stage 7 Award. The award represents ORMC’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)℠.

HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Logic. There are eight stages (0-7) that measure a hospital’s implementation and utilization of information technology applications. The final stage, Stage 7, represents an advanced patient record environment. The validation process to confirm a hospital has reached Stage 7 includes a site visit by an executive from HIMSS Analytics and former or current chief information officers and chief medical information officers or chief nursing informatics officers to ensure an unbiased evaluation of the Stage 7 environments.

During the fourth quarter of 2015, only 4.2 percent of the more than 5,400 U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics LOGIC received the Stage 7 Award.

“We are extremely honored to have achieved the Stage 7 milestone which further demonstrates our commitment to improving the health of our community – our primary mission. It takes an entire team, at every level of the organization, to reach the highest level of electronic medical records utilization and it’s all with the patient’s wellbeing as the focus,” said Scott Batulis, ORMC president and CEO.

Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, NY, is a 383-bed, 501(c)(3), non-profit, academic medical center and employs approximately 2,400 healthcare professionals serving 450,000 patients throughout Orange and Sullivan Counties and beyond.

“Orange Regional Medical Center has made great progress in a very short time. In particular, they have implemented a predictive clinical decision support algorithm directly into the EHR to help physicians with precise insulin dosing. As a result, they have eliminated severe hypoglycemia cases and significantly reduced diabetes inpatient mortality. This is a data driven organization, and it shows,” said John H. Daniels, CNM, FACHE, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, global vice president, healthcare advisory services group, HIMSS Analytics.

ORMC will be recognized at the 2017 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition on Feb. 19-23, 2017, in Orlando, Fla.

Visit the HIMSS Analytics website for more information on the Stage 7 Award.

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HIMSS Analytics is uniquely positioned and differentiated through its industry focused offerings which include a Healthcare IT market intelligence tool, Healthcare IT insights and Healthcare IT benchmarks and services. LOGIC, HIMSS Analytics comprehensive and intuitive market intelligence tool, delivers access to the largest technology data set with unmatched breadth and depth needed for guiding healthcare IT strategies. HIMSS Analytics research and advisory consultants uncover unique insights on how to optimally use IT to tackle today’s healthcare challenges faced by both healthcare delivery organizations and IT companies. Additionally, utilizing maturity models for healthcare providers, they identify best practices and build strategic roadmaps that lead transformational change. HIMSS Analytics has helped hospitals and clinical practices track and benchmark their EMR adoption and utilization goals since 2005 through the EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) and utilize other Maturity Models to help healthcare organizations achieve their goals.

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