HIMSS Analytics Maturity Models

HIMSS Analytics has created an EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) that identifies the levels of electronic medical record (EMR) capabilities ranging from limited ancillary department systems through a paperless EMR environment. Middle East EMR Adoption Model SM StageCumulative Capabilities Stage 7Complete EMR; CCD transactions to share data; Data warehousing; Data continuity with ED, ambulatory, OP Stage 6 Physician documentation (structured templates), full CDSS (variance & compliance), closed loop medication admin Stage 5Full R-PACS Stage 4CPOE, Clinical Decision Support (clinical protocols) Stage 3Nursing / clinical documentation (flow sheets), CDSS (error checking), PACS available outside Radiology Stage 2CDR, Controlled Medical Vocabulary, CDS, may have Document Imaging; HIE capable Stage 1Ancillaries - Lab, Rad, Pharmacy - All Installed Stage 0All Three Ancillaries Not Installed Data from HIMSS Analytics® Database ©2012 HIMSS Analytics has released a new EMR Adoption Model, The Ambulatory EMR Adoption Model (A-EMRAM) focused on ambulatory facilitiesAnalyticsEMR

Stage 0: The organisation has not installed all of the three key ancillary department systems (laboratory, pharmacy, and radiology). Stage 1: All three major ancillary clinical systems are installed (i.e., pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology). Stage 2: Major ancillary clinical systems feed data to a clinical data repository (CDR) that provides physician access for reviewing all orders and results. The CDR contains a controlled medical vocabulary, and the clinical decision support/rules engine (CDS) for rudimentary conflict checking. Information from document imaging systems may be linked to the CDR at this stage. The hospital may be health information exchange (HIE) capable at this stage and can share whatever information it has in the CDR with other patient care stakeholders. Stage 3: Nursing/clinical documentation (e.g. vital signs, flow sheets, nursing notes, eMAR is required and is implemented and integrated with the CDR for at least one inpatient service in the hospital; care plan charting is scored with extra points. The Electronic Medication Administration Record application (EMAR) is implemented. The first level of clinical decision support is implemented to conduct error checking with order entry (i.e., drug/drug, drug/ food, drug/lab conflict checking normally found in the pharmacy information system). Medical image access from picture archive and communication systems (PACS) is available for access by physicians outside the Radiology department via the organisation’s intranet.

Stage 4: Computerised Practitioner Order Entry (CPOE) for use by any clinician licensed to create orders is added to the nursing and CDR environment along with the second level of clinical decision support capabilities related to evidence based medicine protocols. If one inpatient service area has implemented CPOE with physicians entering orders and completed the previous stages, then this stage has been achieved. Stage 5: A full complement of radiology PACS systems provides medical images to physicians via an intranet and displaces all film-based images. Cardiology PACS and document imaging are scored with extra points. Stage 6: Full physician documentation with structured templates and discrete data is implemented for at least one inpatient care service area for progress notes, consult notes, discharge summaries or problem list & diagnosis list maintenance. Level three of clinical decision support provides guidance for all clinician activities related to protocols and outcomes in the form of variance and compliance alerts. The closed loop medication administration with bar coded unit dose medications environment is fully implemented. The eMAR and bar coding or other auto identification technology, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), are implemented and integrated with CPOE and pharmacy to maximise point of care patient safety processes for medication administration. The “five rights” of medication administration are verified at the bedside with scanning of the bar code on the unit does medication and the patient ID.

Stage 7: The hospital no longer uses paper charts to deliver and manage patient care and has a mixture of discrete data, document images, and medical images within its EMR environment. Data warehousing is being used to analyse patterns of clinical data to improve quality of care and patient safety and care delivery efficiency. Clinical information can be readily shared via standardized electronic transactions (i.e. CCD) with all entities that are authorised to treat the patient, or a health information exchange (i.e., other non-associated hospitals, ambulatory clinics, sub-acute environments, employers, payers and patients in a data sharing environment). The hospital demonstrates summary data continuity for all hospital services (e.g. inpatient, outpatient, ED, and with any owned or managed ambulatory clinics)

EMR Adoption in the U.S. Market Trended 2006 – 2013 Data from HIMSS Analytics TM Database This is how long it takes to make “significant” national progress Stage Q1 Stage 70.00% 0.30%0.70%1.00%1.20%1.80%3.10% Stage 60.10%0.80%0.50%1.60%3.20%5.20%7.30%13.30% Stage 50.50%1.40%2.50%3.80%4.50%8.40%11.50%24.20% Stage 43.10%2.20%2.50%7.40%10.50%13.20%14.00%15.70% Stage %25.10%35.70%50.90%49.00%44.90%41.70%27.70% Stage %37.20%31.40%16.90%14.60%12.40%11.40%7.20% Stage %14.00%11.50%7.20%7.10%5.70%4.80%3.20% Stage %19.30%15.60%11.50%10.10%9.00%7.50%5.60% # of Hospitalsn = 4,237n = 5,073n = 5,166n = 5,235n = 5,281N=5,337N=5,310N= 5,458

United States EMR Adoption Model℠ STAGE2014 Q42015 Q1 Stage 73.6%3.7% Stage 617.9%22.2% Stage 532.8%30.8% Stage 414.0%13.6% Stage 321.0%19.7% Stage 25.1%4.3% Stage 12.0%2.2% Stage 03.7%3.5% N = 5467N = 5462 Data from HIMSS Analytics(R) Database 2015

United States Ambulatory EMR Adoption Model℠ STAGE2015 Q1 Stage 77.87% Stage 68.39% Stage 56.37% Stage 41.05% Stage % Stage % Stage % Stage 04.24% N = 32,502 Data from HIMSS Analytics(R) Database 2015

Source: HIMSS Analytics Representation of TJC Top Performing Hospitals by # Quality Metrics Excelling In, per EMRAM Stage 2.3% 6.5% 16.3% 18.1% 10.6% 12.9% 20.7% 39.8%

Representation of Hospitals with an "A" Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade by EMRAM Stage Tipping Point

Hospital Cost Efficiencies BY EMRAM Stage Early DRAFT Not for Distribution Used by permission – Eric Ford

EMR ADOPTION IN TURKEY, EUROPE AND THE US... based on HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model 1) Excl. Turkey; incl. Austria (14), Belgium (1), Denmark (15), Finland (3), France (16), Germany (193), Italy (178), Netherlands (63), Norway (3), Poland (55), Portugal (13), Slovenia (1), Spain (79), Sweden (1), Switzerland (4), UK (20) 2) The EMRAM algorithm between Europe and the US differs in some degrees in order to reflect HIT implementation of that particular region EMR Adoption Model Scores, Means per Country (data from 4/13 – 5/14 (Turkey), 4/12 – 3/14 (Europe), 4/13 – 3/14 (US), no weighting etc. applied) Source: HIMSS Europe Database (05/2014) Turkey (134) Europe 1 (659) Germany (193) Netherlands (63) USA 2 (1,310) EMRAM Score (Means) Only public and non-profit hospitals with >199 beds