Himss Davies Award Winners
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HIMSS Davies Award Winners Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announces Davies Award each year in three categories made up of organizational, ambulatory and community health organization. HIMSS gives this award for the excellent use of electronic health record (EHR) software and other health information technology (HIT) for improving patient care, quality and safety as well as improving outcomes in terms of cost savings (HIMSS, 2012). The main objectives of Davis award include promoting the use of EHRs, understanding the value of HER and raising visibility of EHRs through sharing successful implementations. Dr. Jeremy Bradley Family Practice Center and Coastal Medical Inc. are the winners of 2012 Ambulatory HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence for effective utilization of HIT. Return on investment (ROI) case study of Coastal Medical under the category of core care studies is selected to compare their experience with learning from course in terms of clinical benefits.
Assessment of Case Study Coastal Medical has been honored with the prestigious Ambulatory HIMSS Davies Award for 2012 due to outstanding achievement in the implementation and obtaining value from EHRs and other health information technologies (Coastal Medical, 2012). Coastal Medical is a Rhode Island based predominantly primary care group that provides quality primary medical care services through their 19 offices, 91 physicians and 400 staff members. It implemented EHR system with the help of eClinicalWorks (electronic medical record vendor) in 2006 and early 2007 in order to improve quality of clinical services as well as create an effective process for the management of continuous quality improvement over time (HIMSS, 2012). The implementation of EHR and EMR technologies helps Coastal to deliver high value and high quality medical care to its patients by making important changes in clinical
Health IT Use
HIMSS Davies Award Winners Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announces Davies Award each year in three categories made up of organizational, ambulatory and community health organization. HIMSS gives this award for the excellent use of electronic health record (EHR) software and other health information technology (HIT) for improving patient care, quality and safety as well as improving outcomes in terms of cost savings (HIMSS, 2012). The main objectives of Davis award include promoting the use of EHRs, understanding the value of HER and raising visibility of EHRs through sharing successful implementations. Dr. Jeremy Bradley Family Practice Center and Coastal Medical Inc. are the winners of 2012 Ambulatory HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence for effective utilization of HIT. Return on investment (ROI) case study of Coastal Medical under the category of core care studies is selected to compare their experience with learning from course in terms of clinical benefits.
Assessment of Case Study Coastal Medical has been honored with the prestigious Ambulatory HIMSS Davies Award for 2012 due to outstanding achievement in the implementation and obtaining value from EHRs and other health information technologies (Coastal Medical, 2012). Coastal Medical is a Rhode Island based predominantly primary care group that provides quality primary medical care services through their 19 offices, 91 physicians and 400 staff members. It implemented EHR system with the help of eClinicalWorks (electronic medical record vendor) in 2006 and early 2007 in order to improve quality of clinical services as well as create an effective process for the management of continuous quality improvement over time (HIMSS, 2012). The implementation of EHR and EMR technologies helps Coastal to deliver high value and high quality medical care to its patients by making important changes in clinical
References: Coastal Medical. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.coastalmedical.com/ eClinicalWorks. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.eclinicalworks.com/f9e7ff3d-5f27-4d35-a959-ecc3813b6ee6/news-and-events-press-releases-detail.htm HIMSS. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.himss.org/davies/docs/2012_CaseStudies/coastal/ROI.pdf