Here are four things to know.
1. Walnut Hill Medical Center first opened in April 2014. Now, the hospital has joined the 1,440 hospitals that have achieved Stage 6.
2. The EMR Adoption Model Stage 6 requires hospitals to demonstrate electronic physician documentation, clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry and closed-loop medication administration, amongst several other criteria.
3. “I am very proud of our team and the physicians as they came together to use the technology to further enable patient care delivery,” said Cory Countryman, CEO of Walnut Hill Medical Center. “Since the day we opened our doors to the community in April 2014, the Walnut Hill Medical Center team has continuously provided exceptional patient care while leveraging the technology tools toward making that happen.”
4. Stage 6 is the second to last stage in the HIMSS Analytics model, which includes Stages 0 to 7.
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