October 28th 
Test out your healthcare document imaging knowledge:
How many healthcare organizations have gone completely paperless with medical imaging and reached the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) highest level?
A. 25
B. 10
C. 2
If you answered “C”, you are correct. Currently, just 2 out of 5,167 total healthcare systems have taken healthcare document imaging to the utmost level and achieved the HIMSS Stage 7 Award:
- The NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois, which comprises 858 beds in 3 hospitals
- Kaiser Permanente Health Foundation in Oakland, California, which comprises 7,654 beds in 12 facilities
To achieve the Stage 7 Award for healthcare document imaging, a hospital must be truly paperless. Medical records must be completely electronic, and clinical information must be readily shared via electronic transactions with all entities within the health information exchange network. Also at this stage, the healthcare organization must use data warehousing and mining techniques to capture and analyze care data for performance improvement and advancing clinical decision support protocols.
To date, 37 additional healthcare organizations have achieved the Stage 6 Award, the next highest level for healthcare document imaging.
Here is the breakdown for the other 6 stages:
Stage 5: closed loop medication administration
Stage 4: Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) (clinical protocols)
Stage 3: clinical documentation (flow sheets), CDSS (error checking), Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) available outside radiology
Stage 2: clinical data repository, controlled medical vocabulary, may have document imaging
Stage 1: all ancillaries (lab, radiation and pharmacy) installed
Stage 0: all ancillaries not installed
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