Quality & Safety
Advocate Health Care informaticist says there are both challenges and opportunities for as technology becomes more widely used in clinical settings.
Partnership with MAP Health Management will help identify people at risk of relapse so healthcare providers can intervene sooner.
More than 400 pieces of technology have already been distributed to hospitals across the country.
By integrating the Cleveland Clinic spinoff NeuroLogix into the system, Cerner hopes to better track neurological injuries.
The health system drastically reduced documentation time and number of clicks within its Cerner EHR after a three-year optimization project.
HIMSS is recognizing North York General for its clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry and closed-loop medication administration initiatives that improved patient outcomes.
HIMSS is recognizing Mercy for its EHR optimization, process improvement efforts, use of evidence-based protocols and analytics gains – all of which have helped the health system improve care quality and patient outcomes, lower costs and increased reimbursements.
One of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, it's only the second two-time winner of the Enterprise Davies Award since the inception of the program in 1994.
Defense Department is on track to rollout new electronic health records software in the Pacific Northwest later in 2016, and officials are calling the project a new beginning toward interoperable, safe and secure patient records.