HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, uses eight-stage benchmarking models for this task.
The group’s three most established benchmarking models — the Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity, EMR Adoption Model and Outpatient EMR Adoption Model — all run from Stage 0 to Stage 7, with Stage 7 representing the highest designation.
The hospitals that were validated or re-validated as Stage 7 on the three models in 2018:
HIMSS Analytics Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity
- Duke Health (Durham, N.C.)
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
- University of North Carolina Health Care System (Chapel Hill)
HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model
- The Affiliated Longhua Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital
- Altru Health System (Grand Forks, N.D.)
- Children’s Hospital of Fudan University (Shanghai)
- Children’s Hospital of Shanghai
- Community Healthcare System (Munster, Ind.)
- Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pa.)
- Huangshi Central Hospital (China)
- Kunming Children’s Hospital (China)
- Mackenzie Health (Richmond Hill, Canada)
- Memorial Healthcare System (Hollywood, Fla.)
- MLK Community Hospital (Los Angeles)
- The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (Bethesda, Md.)
- Nebraska Medicine (Omaha)
- Novant Health (Huntersville, N.C.)
- Pagosa Springs (Colo.) Medical Center
- Riverside Medical Center (Franklinton, La.)
- Sparrow Health System (Lansing, Mich.)
- Springhill Medical Center (Mobile, Ala.)
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare (Cincinnati)
- St. Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay (Urraween, Australia)
- Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital
- Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.)
- UC Davis Health (Sacramento, Calif.)
- UMass Memorial Healthcare (Worcester, Mass.)
- University of North Carolina Health Care System (Chapel Hill)
- Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health
- Yozgat Şehir Hastanesi (Turkey)
HIMSS Analytics Outpatient EMR Adoption Model
- Altru Health System (Grand Forks, N.D.)
- Cleveland Clinic Health System
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University (Fujian, China)
- The Hattiesburg (Miss.) Clinic
- Lee Health (Fort Myers, Fla.)
- Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health
- Memorial Healthcare System (Hollywood, Fla.)
- The National Institute of Health Clinical Center (Bethesda, Md.)
- Nebraska Medicine (Omaha)
- Ningbo Yinzhou No.2 Hospital (Zhejiang Sheng, China)
- Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
- Sharp HealthCare (San Diego)
- Sparrow Health System (Lansing, Mich.)
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare (Cincinnati)
- UMass Memorial Healthcare (Worcester, Mass.)
- University of North Carolina Health Care System (Chapel Hill)
To read HIMSS Analytics’ blog post on the 2018 validations, click here.
Editor’s note: This article was updated Jan. 30.
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