If you’ve worked in the world of EHR and health IT, then you’re likely familiar with EMRAM (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model) which was developed and maintained by HIMSS. It’s their flagship maturity model and if you haven’t heard of it, you may have heard a hospital talk about reaching Stage 7 adoption with their EHR. That’s the EMRAM model and one that’s been used by many a CIO and healthcare organization to provide a framework for adopting and utilizing an EHR. There’s power in a common goal and EMRAM has provided that.
As you can imagine, we’re now at least a decade into most organizations adopting and EHR and a lot has changed and continues to change. As part of the maturity of EHR adoption at many organizations, it was time for HIMSS to continue to evolve EMRAM and that’s just what they announced recently. The focus of the changes is focused on outcomes including: Operational Outcomes, Patient Safety, and Patient Experience.
To learn more about the changes to EMRAM, we sat down with Anne Snowdon, RN, PhD, FAAN, Chief Scientific Research Officer at HIMSS. She shared some of how EMRAM is being used by CIOs and the impact it’s had on the industry. Plus, she explains why EMRAM needed to be adjusted and what changes were implemented. Snowdon also shares what a stage 7 healthcare organization would look like in the latest EMRAM version. I also ask her what this means for an organization that had previously been a stage 7 healthcare organization. Do they have to do it again? Is there a gap approach? Finally, we ask her what impact these changes will have on patients.
If you’re interested in EMRAM and the recently announced changes to the EHR maturity model, then you’ll enjoy this interview with Dr. Anne Snowdon from HIMSS.
Learn more about the HIMSS EMRAM program: https://www.himss.org/what-we-do-solutions/digital-health-transformation/maturity-models/electronic-medical-record-adoption-model-emram
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