The Enterprise Davies Award honors healthcare organizations for outstanding achievements in using health IT to improve care and reduce costs. Mercy won the award based on four case studies. They used health IT to:
• Decrease the time it took to administer a diuretic to patients with heart failure by nearly three hours.
• Reduce pneumonia mortality rates to less than half the national average.
• Use surgical procedure data to help achieve $9.42 million in cost reductions.
• Make improvements in clinical documentation to ensure physicians properly capture a clinical diagnosis.
Mercy includes 43 acute care and specialty hospitals and more than 700 physician practices.
In September 2016, Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health was also named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient, making Mercy the second recipient of the 2016 award, thus far.
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