HIMSS Analytics Awards Stage 7 Ambulatory Award To University Of Iowa Health Care Clinics
By Wendy Grafius, contributing writer
HIMSS Analytics recognizes 21 University of Iowa Health Care clinics for attaining highest level on the EMRAM
Twenty-one University of Iowa (UI) Health Care clinics have been recognized by HIMSS Analytics with the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). This achievement represents a health system’s advanced electronic patient record environment.
HIMSS Analytics, part of health IT cause-based HIMSS, collects, analyzes, and delivers health IT data to its worldwide membership of individuals, corporations, and nonprofits. In 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model was developed to evaluate the progress and impact of EMR systems for ambulatory facilities owned by hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics Database. “University of Iowa Health has an excellent data driven culture, with a top performing organization with numerous externally derived benchmarking criteria in use everywhere,” said John Hoyt, FACHE, FHIMSS, executive VP of HIMSS Analytics. “These facilities utilize a full deployment of the ambulatory EMR, including bar coded medication administration. A very high bar has been set by the University of Iowa.”
UI Health Care is indeed among a select group. As of the fourth quarter of 2013, only 4.33 percent of the nation’s more than 20,000 ambulatory clinics in the HIMSS Analytics Database had received the Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. “This tremendous honor is a tribute to the dedication and hard work of everyone associated with our truly stellar team here at the University of Iowa,” said Lee Carmen, associate VP for information systems with University of Iowa Health Care. “Their commitment to innovative care, excellent service, and exceptional outcomes is unsurpassed, and all of us take deep pride in being one of the national leaders in health care informatics.”
The state of Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center, UI Health Care is a 705-bed facility, including the 190-bed UI Children’s Hospital, both of which are located in the main complex of buildings on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. More than 1500 physician staff members, residents, and fellows provide care at over 200 outpatient clinics and care areas throughout eastern Iowa. The state’s largest multi-specialty medical and surgical group practice, the UI Physicians, are also faculty members and biomedical researchers at UI’s Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. As a regional referral center, physicians from around the country refer patients to UI Hospitals and Clinics for specialty care.
SOURCE: HIMSS Analytics