The Carolinas HealthCare System has received the HIMSS Stage 7 Ambulatory Award recognition for its EHR system.
Carolinas, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., received awards for 230 of its 900 clinic locations throughout North and South Carolina. Stage 7 is the highest level of EHR adoption in HIMSS standards and denotes an organization's paperless environment and efficient use of an EHR. Approximately 6.2 percent of ambulatory clinics in the U.S. have received the award, according to a news release.
"Carolinas HealthCare System is clearly one of the country's leaders in use of data derived from their ambulatory EHR to drive improvements in chronic disease management," said John P. Hoyt, executive vice president of HIMSS Analytics, in the news release. "They have abundant evidence that disease states are improving in their patient population, all made possible by the strong foundation of data derived from their wide reaching ambulatory EHR."