InformationWeek Names HCA One of the Most Innovation Users of Business Technology

InformationWeek has named Hospital Corporation of America to its 2009 InformationWeek 500, which lists the nation’s most innovative users of business technology, according to an HCA news release.

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HCA ranked No. 242 on the list and was selected for its continued development and implementation of hCare, the company’s comprehensive program for advanced health information technologies. HCA’s hCare builds on foundational electronic health record
functions and will eventually include computerized provider order entry and decision support, according to the report. HCA’s hCare also integrates outpatient treatment into the EHR and will include patient health records that capture health information from visits to doctors.

HCA’s Information Technology & Services department employs more than 3,000 employees across the United States and includes four data centers and fourteen division support centers responsible for delivering IT services to HCA as well as more than 145 non-HCA hospitals and facilities.

Read all the winners of the InformationWeek 500.

Read HCA’ release on the InformationWeek 500.

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