HIMSS Analytics Honors Navicent Health with Stage 6 Recognition
HIMSS Analytics has announced that 20 Atrium Health Navicent outpatient sites have achieved Stage 6 on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Adoption ModelSM. Atrium Health Navicent is known as a leader in health systems technology, including the adoption of EMR to ensure patient safety, quality and continuity of care.
"In order to reach Stage 6 designation, our Information Technology department and our outpatient facilities worked tirelessly together to implement electronic medical records that include full physician documentation, including progress notes, consult notes and discharge summaries. We have also worked to integrate a full range of electronic medical images, displacing film-based images, to provide timely access to needed information. The purpose of this implementation is to improve access to timely, quality care and therefore keep the patient at the center of all that we do," said Omer Awan, Chief Information Officer for Atrium Health Navicent.
As of April 2017, only 8,202 outpatient facilities in the U.S. boast a Stage 6 designation.
HIMSS Analytics developed the Outpatient EMR Adoption ModelSM in 2012 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of EMR systems for ambulatory facilities in the HIMSS Analytics® LOGIC"„¢. Tracking their progress in completing eight stages (0-7), ambulatory sites can review the implementation and utilization of information technology applications with the intent of reaching Stage 7, which represents an advanced electronic patient record environment.
Stage 6 ambulatory facilities share the following attributes:
"¢ Have 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 outpatient care settings.
"¢ Are either starting to evaluate their data for care delivery process improvements or have already documented significant improvements in this area.
"¢ Have made investments that are within reach of most clinics and recognize the strategic value of improving patient care with the EMR.
"¢ Have begun to create strategic alignments with their medical staff to effectively utilize information technology to improve patient engagement and population health
"¢ 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 organizations 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.
"This milestone represents Atrium Health Navicent's commitment to providing the highest level of care to our patients and our partners through safety, clinical excellence, cost excellence and service excellence. Atrium Health Navicent continues to lead the industry amid technological advances and healthcare reform," said Christopher Hendry, M.D., Chief Medical Officer for Atrium Health Navicent.
"HIMSS Analytics congratulates Atrium Health Navicent for making significant progress towards achieving advanced health IT adoption," said John H. Daniels, CNM, FACHE, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, Global Vice President, HIMSS Analytics. "Stage 6 represents a level of sophistication that can lead to innovative healthcare transformation."
About Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent was incorporated on November 17, 1994, as a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to coordinate the Medical Center, Navicent Health and other affiliated entities in their mission of providing a comprehensive continuum of high quality, reasonably priced healthcare services to the region. Atrium Health Navicent has 830 beds for medical, surgical, rehabilitation and hospice purposes. The health system includes The Medical Center, Navicent Health, a nationally recognized tertiary teaching hospital; Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital, the region's only dedicated pediatric hospital; Medical Center of Peach County, Atrium Health Navicent, a rural critical access hospital; Rehabilitation Hospital, Atrium Health Navicent, the region's oldest and most experienced rehabilitation provider; Pine Pointe, Atrium Health Navicent, which provides palliative and hospice care in homes and in its facility; Carlyle Place, Atrium Health Navicent, the area's first continuing care retirement community; Navicent Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Atrium Health Navicent; as well as diagnostic and home care services. For more information, please visit www.navicenthealth.org.
About HIMSS Analytics
HIMSS Analytics is a global healthcare advisor, providing guidance and market intelligence solutions that move the industry forward with insight to enable better health through the use of IT. As a trusted healthcare research and advisory firm, the industry depends on HIMSS Analytics' resources, benchmarks, predictive models and assessment tools to improve decision making regarding their IT strategic roadmap and market strategy. HIMSS Analytics is uniquely positioned and differentiated through its industry focused offerings which include its Healthcare IT market intelligence tool, Healthcare IT insights and Healthcare IT benchmarks and services. The LOGIC market intelligence tool has the largest technology data set with unmatched breadth and depth needed for guiding healthcare IT strategies. HIMSS Analytics research and advisory consultants uncover unique insights on how to optimally use IT to tackle today's healthcare challenges faced by both healthcare delivery organizations and IT companies. Its EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) provides a strategic roadmap and guidance along an 8-stage model with comparisons to healthcare organizations in the same country and around the world. HIMSS Analytics, a wholly owned subsidiary of HIMSS, is the healthcare research and advisory firm for healthcare delivery organizations, IT companies, governmental entities, and financial, pharmaceutical, consulting and emerging technology solution partners worldwide. Learn more at himssanalytics.org.