Nicklaus Children’s Hospital receives HIMSS Stage 7 award

Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in the state of Miami is the new acute care facility to be award a Stage 7 designation of EHRs achievement from HIMSS Analytics.

The award program is deployed on the 7-stage Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) and calculates maturity in the utilization of clinical information systems. Stage 7 depicts an advanced patient record setting.

“Very early on in this tour, we analyzed the significance that digitization places on the sufferers and families in our care, from decreasing costs, improving care and making better the service to our clients,” claimed Edward Martinez, senior vice president and Chief Information Officer at Miami Children’s Health System. “We are honored to be identified for our capability to adopt and accept a digitized healthcare workplace.”

Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is the mere licensed specialty hospital especially for children in the state of southern Florida, and it owns 650 attending physicians and more than 130 pediatric subspecialists.

The hospital is also hosts the greatest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern U.S and has been termed as American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession’s most prestigious institutional honor.

The procedure of assessing if a hospital has reached Stage Seven involves a site visit by a HIMSS Analytics executive, as well as previous or present chief information officers, chief medical information officers or chief nursing informatics officers.

“Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is believed to be on the leading edge of technology use in various ways,” claimed John H. Daniels, global vice president of the healthcare advisory services group of HIMSS Analytics. “For instance, they have repurposed their previous medical records storage room into an international telehealth center to serve pediatric sufferers around the world.”

HIMSS will honor Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, along with other hospitals that receive Stage 7 this very year, at the 2017 HIMSS Conference in the state of Orlando. HIMSS Analytics also has a same program to identify the HER accomplishments of ambulatory practices.