Albany Medical Center Recognized for Work in Implementing Electronic Medical Records
HIMSS Analytics, a global healthcare advisory company, today announced that
According to the company, Albany Med has achieved Stage 6 on the EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM). Stage 7 is the highest ranking, and as of
"Building physician and clinician documentation into our electronic health record is vital to high quality patient care," said
Stage 6 hospitals have implemented the following initiatives: * Made significant executive commitments and investments to reach this stage; * Appear to have a significant advantage over competitors for patient safety, clinician support, clinician recruitment, and competitive marketing for both consumers and nurse recruitment; * Have almost fully automated/paperless medical records when they have implemented their IT applications across most of the inpatient care settings; * Are either starting to evaluate their data for care delivery process improvements or have already documented significant improvements in this area; * Made investments that are within reach of most hospitals and recognize the strategic value of improving patient care with the EMR; * Begun to create strategic alignments with their medical staff to effectively utilize information technology to improve the patient safety environment; and * Are well-positioned to provide data to key stakeholders, such as payers, the government, physicians, consumers, and employers, to support electronic health record environments and health information exchanges.
Stage 6 hospitals also have achieved a significant advancement in their IT capabilities that positions them to successfully address many of the current industry transformations, such as meaningful use criteria in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, claims attachments for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, pay for performance, and government quality reporting programs.
"The clinical data that our physicians and nurses capture positions us to examine aggregated data for patterns that will improve overall patient care effectiveness and efficiency," said
In July,
"HIMSS Analytics congratulates
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