This week, we had guests from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) evaluating the GBMC HealthCare System on our use of electronic health records.Today, I am excited to announce that GBMC HealthCare has achieved Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) for our inpatient setting and on a provisional basis for our ambulatory services! I am confident that we will receive full ambulatory certification at Stage 7 soon.
The award is recognition for operating in a paperless environment and representing best practices in implementing electronic health records. As you know GBMC has been utilizing the Epic system since this past October.
EMRAM is a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic record systems and includes eight stages (0-7) that measure a hospital’s implementation and utilization of IT to optimize the care that patients receive. Stage 7 represents the most advanced patient record environment. HIMSS Analytics developed the EMRAM as a tool to compare information technology maturity in health care organizations. Less than 5 percent of hospitals in the United States have achieved Stage 7 certification.
Make no mistake this accomplishment is due to the commitment and the hard work of the GBMC staff which includes our highly-skilled team of physicians, nurses, other clinicians and IT professionals. I want to thank all of my GBMC colleagues for this achievement. Deserving of special thanks are Dr. Fred Chan, our Chief Medical Information Officer, Cindy Ellis, Epic Project Director, Dave Hynson, GBMC’s Chief Information Officer, Chase Roberts, Finance/Operational Efficiencies Manager and Mary Swarts, the Epic Nurse Champion, who all played an integral role in getting us to this point.
Achieving this recognition is more evidence of our commitment to ‘one patient, one record.’ Without this, we cannot achieve our vision of being the community-based health system where every patient gets the care that we would want for our own loved ones.
We’re not perfect and there’s more work to be done. As we go into the Father’s Day weekend, please take a moment to be proud of what we have accomplished so far!
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