Sentara
The Organization
Sentara Healthcare was originally founded in 1888 as Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. Today, Sentara Healthcare serves the southeastern region of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina and is comprised of more than 100 care-giving sites, including eight acute care hospitals with 1,911 beds, nine outpatient care facilities, seven nursing centers, three assisted living centers, nine advanced imaging centers, and 380 primary care and multi-specialty doctors. Sentara Healthcare’s vision is to be the health care choice of the communities it serves.
The Initiative
In pursuit of its mission to improve health every day, Sentara Healthcare set out in 2004 to improve its computerized physician order entry (CPOE). Information technology (IT) leadership soon envisioned a broader initiative that would encompass a continuum of care now known as eCare. With its implementation, eCare established a comprehensive electronic medical records (EMRs) system that is linked across all Sentara Healthcare hospitals, physician offices, diagnostic sites and pharmacies, allowing improved documentation, communication and delivery of care. eCare is also accessible to patients for reviewing test results, prescription renewal, scheduling appointments, asking questions and finding information.
Sentara Healthcare is among the very few organizations that have been awarded Stage 7 by HiMSS Analytics. Launched in 2005, HiMSS Analytics’ EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM) scores hospital progress through eight stages (0-7) of EMR adoption. A comprehensive Stage 7 onsite evaluation confirms that a hospital truly operates in a fully paperless environment with the ability to use and share healthcare information throughout their information network including providers and consumers. HiMSS Analytics believes that, as more healthcare organizations move toward EMR implementation, the Stage 7 hospitals offer valuable best practices focused on using EMR
Sentara Healthcare was originally founded in 1888 as Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. Today, Sentara Healthcare serves the southeastern region of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina and is comprised of more than 100 care-giving sites, including eight acute care hospitals with 1,911 beds, nine outpatient care facilities, seven nursing centers, three assisted living centers, nine advanced imaging centers, and 380 primary care and multi-specialty doctors. Sentara Healthcare’s vision is to be the health care choice of the communities it serves.
The Initiative
In pursuit of its mission to improve health every day, Sentara Healthcare set out in 2004 to improve its computerized physician order entry (CPOE). Information technology (IT) leadership soon envisioned a broader initiative that would encompass a continuum of care now known as eCare. With its implementation, eCare established a comprehensive electronic medical records (EMRs) system that is linked across all Sentara Healthcare hospitals, physician offices, diagnostic sites and pharmacies, allowing improved documentation, communication and delivery of care. eCare is also accessible to patients for reviewing test results, prescription renewal, scheduling appointments, asking questions and finding information.
Sentara Healthcare is among the very few organizations that have been awarded Stage 7 by HiMSS Analytics. Launched in 2005, HiMSS Analytics’ EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM) scores hospital progress through eight stages (0-7) of EMR adoption. A comprehensive Stage 7 onsite evaluation confirms that a hospital truly operates in a fully paperless environment with the ability to use and share healthcare information throughout their information network including providers and consumers. HiMSS Analytics believes that, as more healthcare organizations move toward EMR implementation, the Stage 7 hospitals offer valuable best practices focused on using EMR