20 - 21 March 2015, Antalya, Turkey.Six Turkish hospitals will be awarded the prestigious Stage 6 EMRAM award for demonstrating outstanding levels of IT implementation ensuring superior healthcare services and much increased patient safety.
The awards will be presented at the second HIMSS Turkey Educational Conference & Exhibition, which opens its doors in Antalya. The conference, a joint initiative between the Turkish Ministry of Health and HIMSS Europe, is the second in a series of five conferences. The conferences will showcase the results of the Turkish EMRAM data collection, which HIMSS is collecting on behalf of the Turkish Ministry of Health to have all 850 public Turkish Hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics database by 2019.
The six HIMSS EMRAM (EMR Adoption Model) Stage 6 hospitals to be awarded are:
- Tirebolu Devlet Hastanesi, Giresun.
- Dr. Suat Seren Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İzmir
- Meslek Hastalıkları Hastanesi, Ankara
- Bandırma Devlet Hastanesi, Balıkesir
- Fizik Tedavi ve Rehabilitasyon Hastanesi, Bolu
- Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İzmir
Dr. Yilmaz Salman, Head Doctor, from Tirebolu Devlet Hastanesi, one of the hospitals that has reached Stage 6 said: "Our IT systems are helping us to coordinate much of our work and keep track of our patient medical and financial information and coordinate between our departments, with HIMSS EMRAM stage 6 we are able to put new goals such as medical decision support system usage in our system. We will continue working to demonstrate a more elaborated system and HIMSS stage 6 acknowledgments which will encourage us even to do more."
The HIMSS Turkey conference takes place March 20 & 21, 2015 at the Titanic Deluxe Belek Hotel in Antalya. The main themes of the conference are public private partnership projects, healthcare IT and mobility, standards in interoperability, patient involvement, personlised medicine and genomics.
H. Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS, said: "Turkey is fast becoming a leading figure in Europe in the transformation of health care through information technology. With six new Stage 6 hospitals recognised this year and five identified last year, Turkey now has 11 'flagship' hospitals in terms of EMR adoption. In absolute numbers Turkey now has the third highest share of Stage 6/7 hospitals in Europe trailing only Spain and the Netherlands. This average and the high number of Stage 6 Award recipients brings Turkey in a league with the top EMRAM countries in Europe. I am proud to celebrate this great accomplishment with those who have driven the country to this strong leadership position."
For further information, please visit:
http://www.himssturkey.org
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