EvergreenHealth Named Among 2015 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems

EvergreenHealth has been recognized as “Most Improved” in the 2015 Health Care’s Most Wired survey from the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). This marks the first time EvergreenHealth has appeared in the prestigious annual survey published by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.

July 17, 2015 3:58 pm
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The following is a release from EvergreenHealth:

EvergreenHealth has been recognized as “Most Improved” in the 2015 Health Care’s Most Wired survey from the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). This marks the first time EvergreenHealth has appeared in the prestigious annual survey published by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.

For 17 years, the Most Wired survey has benchmarked the information technology (IT) use and adoption among hospitals and health systems nationwide. The survey of more than 741 participants, representing more than 2,213 organizations, measured IT excellence across four focus areas including infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality and safety and clinical integration.  Organizations designated as “Most Improved” are those that have demonstrated significant improvement in IT practices from the previous to current survey period.

“Technology is rapidly evolving the way we care for, interact with and provide the best experience and outcomes possible for our patients,” said EvergreenHealth CEO Bob Malte. “We are constantly looking to identify opportunities where we can apply technology to help us improve. Streamlining our patient portal to make it easier for patients to enroll and developing a process for gathering quality data from a large network of providers and reporting that back in a shared electronic quality dashboard are a few of the many technologies implemented at EvergreenHealth in the past year to benefit patients.”

EvergreenHealth joins 17 other Washington State organizations recognized by the survey, six of which are located in the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area.  Most recently, the integrated two-hospital health system serving northern King and southern Snohomish counties, achieved Stage 6 of the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.

A full copy of the 2015 Most Wired survey is available in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks or online at www.hhnmag.com.