HIMSS Analytics Europe, subsidiary of HIMSS Europe, recognized six hospitals in Europe with a Stage 6 Award during the annual HIMSS Europe CIO Summit, that has been taken place in Mallorca from the 18th to 20th of November.
The awarded hospitals are: Hospital Son Llatzer, Hospital Comarcal d'Inca and Hospital Parc de Salut Mar all from Spain; the Westfriesgasthuis Hospital and the Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, from the Netherlands and the Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes from France.
The European EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) has been adapted to meet the needs of European Healthcare Institutions as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of the electronic medical record systems in hospitals. Tracking their progress in completing eight stages (0‐7), hospitals can review the implementation and utilization of information technology applications with the intent of reaching Stage 7, which represents a completely paperless environment.
Stage 6 & 7 hospitals provide best practices that other healthcare organizations can study as they strive to use EMR applications to improve patient safety, clinical outcomes and patient care delivery efficiency.
Uwe Buddrus, General Manager, HIMSS Analytics Europe, stated: "We are pleased with the increasing number of hospitals across Europe reaching Stage 6. This demonstrates that the resources and efforts that are invested in IT to deliver better healthcare, are making a real difference."
For more information on the Stage 6 & 7 award, please visit:
http://www.himssanalytics.eu
About the HIMSS Europe CIO Summit
The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit, is a Pan‐European executive level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue. Top leaders from healthcare, IT and government convene to help advance the quality of healthcare delivery. The event features conference sessions, a hospital visit and vast networking opportunities at the most senior level.
About HIMSS Analytics Europe
HIMSS Analytics Europe (HAE) provides health care organisations, governments and industry with extensive data resources and services about the adoption and use of healthcare information technology in Europe. HAE’s offerings include comparative Hospital IT adoption benchmarking, a European‐formulated EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale, and other resources to help hospital directors, IT executives and clinicians compare and measure their progress and how they compare to others. Country level and application specific reports also provide insights into major IT adoption trends and applications.
About Son Llatzer Hospital
Son Llatzer Hospital, opened in December 2011. It is a public hospital integrated to the public network of Health and Consume Department of the Balearic Islands Government. It is a modern hospital with more than 1.700 health professionals working there. Son Llatzer is a pioneer of its generation in the utilization of hospital computerized systems.
About Hospital Comarcal d'Inca
Located in the town of Inca (Mallorca), it is part of the improvement process and comprehensive modernization of the health network of the Balearic Islands, of which it forms part. The center began its operations in January 2007, with the operation of outpatient specialties, and gradually came to encompass other services to be fully operational in 2008. Currently, it has a staff of 760 professionals and it serves a population of 116,000 people.
About Hospital Parc de Salut Mar
Hospital Parc de Salut Mar is a comprehensive organization of services that forms a great Healthacare Park on the coast of Barcelona in which is concentrated one of the most dynamic research, care and knowledge-pole of the city. It is characterized by a wide portfolio services at all healthcare's levels: acutely ill patients, geriatric care, mental health and primary care. Innovative initiatives as the development of an own system of electronic medical records or, most recently, projects in telemedicine, places this hospital as one model institutions concerning the use of new technologies in the health sector in Catalonia.
About Westfriesgasthuis
Westfriesgasthuis is a general hospital in the Dutch town of Hoorn. The hospital born in 1983 from a merger between the Hoornse hospital "St. John" and "General Regional Hospital", and "Enkhuizer Snouck van Loosen". The Westfriesgasthuis Hoorn has capacity of 506 licensed beds and approximately 258,000 outpatient visits a year. The medical staff has 26 specialties represented.
About Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis
Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis in Amsterdam, offers high standard, patient-centred care in a multicultural setting. We treat over 200.000 patients every year. The hospital is situated in a modern building and counts 550 beds, 2,200 employees and 120 specialists. As a top clinical hospital, we offer extensive training and research possibilities. We are specialized in Mother/child care, Obesity, Sleep apnoea, Neurology and Psychiatry.
About Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes
The Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes has around 2000 beds, half of which are used for surgery, medicine and obstetric (acute beds). The activity of the Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes represents the most important care offer of the region Nord Pas de Calais after the Teaching University Hospital of Lille (CHRU de Lille). The Hospital Information System is called CADUCEE. It is patient focused, the data is entered by professionals for the use of other professionals.