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Citizens Memorial Healthcare Featured in Health Data Management
April 5, 2010
LSS Data Systems customer Citizens Memorial Healthcare (Bolivar, MO) is featured in the April issue of Health Data Management magazine. The story describes how a small, rural hospital became one of only 39 HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 organizations (less than 1% of all hospitals), and the first rural hospital to achieve this status.
LSS congratulates Citizens on reaching the 7th and highest stage on the HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model, a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals and healthcare organizations. In reaching this level, CMH joins just over 30 other Stage 7 health organizations across the country – approximately 0.5 percent of the nation’s roughly 5,000 hospitals.
Denni McColm, Chief Information Officer at CMH, said it was exciting to be the first rural hospital to achieve Stage 7. "Doing so validates that our systems not only have advanced functionality, but that we are utilizing that functionality to provide safe, efficient and effective care for our patients."
Utilizing software by MEDITECH and LSS Data Systems, Citizens has developed a fully integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) containing patient medical information collected throughout their entire care organization.
"We share data across the hospital, home care, hospice, long term care, residential care and physician practices," said McColm. "This patient-centric integration is a powerful tool for our care providers, as they have access to all of the patient's information from across the care continuum."
As the most advanced of all healthcare organizations, Stage 7 hospitals:
- Deliver patient care without the use of paper charts;
- Are able to share patient information by sending secure standardized summary record transactions to other care providers;
- Use their vast database of clinical information to drive improved care delivery performance, patient safety clinical decision support, and outcomes using business intelligence solutions; and
- Are "best practice" examples of how to implement sophisticated EMR environments that fully engage their clinicians
"We are thrilled that Citizens Memorial Healthcare has received this honor," said Stephanie Petersen, LSS President & Chief Operating Officer. "They are a true leader in the use of healthcare information technology and we are honored to play a role in their EHR strategy."
Since implementing their electronic medical record in 2003, CMH has received national attention for their use of IT in the rural healthcare environment, proving that technology leadership is not the sole province of larger urban institutions. In 2005 they received the Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence; they were named to the Hospital & Health Networks Most Wired in the Small and Rural Hospitals category from 2005 – 2007; and they were honored as a Top 100 Hospital in 2008 and 2009.
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