January 21, 2005—A new survey to measure hospital IT activities in five key areas: business processes, customer service, safety and quality, workforce and public health and safety, and provides participants with detailed information on their IT systems is now available. Participating hospitals may be named to the 2005 Hospitals & Health Networks list of the 100 Most Wired when it is released in July 2005.
The seventh annual “Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study” highlighting technically savvy hospitals is made possible through a partnership among H&HN, IDX Systems Corp., Capgemini and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). The Most Wired Innovator Awards are a joint project of H&HN, Cisco Systems, Capgemini, IDX Systems Corp. and CHIME.
The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2005. Every organization that submits a survey receives a customized benchmarking analysis of their data.
The data will also be useful in evaluating the current state of readiness to build the national health information infrastructure, notes Lewis Redd, president of Capgemini Health Consulting, another survey partner. “The survey explores the state of the electronic medical record more deeply than in the past and new questions probe the development of regional health information exchanges.”
Since 1998, Hospitals & Health Networks—the journal of the American Hospital Association—has named the nation’s 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems. Hospitals can also be named Most Improved, Most Wireless and Most Wired—Small and Rural. In addition, hospitals that have unique IT projects in place can compete in the Innovator Award essay contest to be named an Innovator winner or finalist.
For more information, contact HHN.
