Cleveland Clinic Recognized With HIMSS Stage 7 Ambulatory Award
By Julia Ernst, contributing writer
The award recognizes facilities owned by hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database for ‘an advanced electronic patient record environment.’
The Cleveland Clinic Health System, the national organization based in Ohio, has been awarded the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Stage 7 Ambulatory Award, which recognizes ambulatory systems owned by hospitals for the use of electronic patient records.
The Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Ambulatory Adoption Model was developed in 2011 as a way to evaluate the progress that ambulatory facilities have made in implementing EMR systems and the impact of the systems. The EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model recognizes facilities owned by hospitals that are included in the HIMSS Analytics Database.
Stage 7 represents the highest level of EMR adoption and indicates “an advanced electronic patient record environment,” according to a news release on the Cleveland Clinic’s Stage 7 Award. The news release also states that, in the third quarter of 2014, less than five percent (4.37 percent) of the more than 27,000 U.S. ambulatory clinics in the HIMSS Analytics Database received the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award.
“The Cleveland Clinic Health System has figured out how to securely file patient-entered data in a discrete form to track and improve patient outcomes, and they have integrated a family history questionnaire into the physician’s workflow that automatically calculates and presents to the physician the best personalized plan for that patient,” said John Daniels, CNM, FACHE, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, Vice President of Strategic Relations, HIMSS. “They also demonstrated significant savings from hard-stop alerts for high-cost/low-value tests. The Cleveland Clinic lives up to its reputation as a world-class healthcare delivery organization.”
The Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit, multi-specialty academic medical center with more than 1,400 beds on its main campus that was founded in 1921. The greater Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) features 4,450 beds nationwide.
HIMSS Analytics is a not-for-profit subsidiary of HIMSS. CCHS will be recognized for the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award at the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition from April 12-16, 2015, in Chicago.
SOURCE: HIMSS Analytics