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 “We are proud to earn recognition as a ‘Most Wired’ hospital for
the third year in a row,” said Dolan Dalpoas, Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital president and CEO.
“Having effective information technology allows us to provide safe,
high-quality, and patient-centered care to all patients we serve,”
said Keenan Leesman, ALMH Information Systems Manager.
The 2015 Most Wired™ survey and benchmarking study, in partnership
with CHIME and sponsored by VMware, is a leading industry barometer
measuring information technology (IT) use and adoption among
hospitals nationwide. The survey of more than 741 participants,
representing more than 2,213 hospitals, examined how organizations
are leveraging IT to improve performance for value-based healthcare
in the areas of infrastructure, business and administrative
management, quality and safety, and clinical integration.
 According to the survey, hospitals are taking more aggressive
privacy and security measures to protect and safeguard patient data.
Top growth areas in security among this year’s Most Wired
organizations include privacy audit systems, provisioning systems,
data loss prevention, single sign-on and identity management. The
survey also found:
- 96 percent of Most Wired organizations use intrusion
detection systems compared to 85 percent of the all respondents.
Privacy audit systems (94 percent) and security incident event
management (93 percent) are also widely used.
- 79 percent of Most Wired organizations conduct incident
response exercises or tabletop tests annually, a high-level
estimate of the current potential for success of a cybersecurity
incident response plan, compared to 37 percent of all responding
hospitals.
- 83 percent of Most Wired organizations report that hospital
board oversight of risk management and reduction includes
cybersecurity risk.
“With the rising number of patient data breaches and
cybersecurity attacks threatening the healthcare industry,
protecting patient health information is a top priority for
hospital customers,” said Frank Nydam, Senior Director of
Healthcare at VMware. “Coupled with the incredible technology
innovation taking place today, healthcare organizations need to
have security as a foundational component of their mobility,
cloud and networking strategy and incorporated into the very
fabric of the organization”
As hospitals and health systems begin to transition away from
volume-based care to more integrated, value-based care delivery,
hospitals are utilizing IT to better facilitate information
exchange across the care settings. This includes greater
alignment between hospitals and physicians. According to the
survey, the physician portal is a key factor in strengthening
physician-hospital alignment:
- In 84 percent of Most Wired organizations, physicians
can view and exchange other facilities’ results in the
portal compared with 63 percent of hospitals surveyed.
- 76 percent use the portal and electronic health record (EHR)
to exchange results with other EHRs and health information
exchanges compared to 56 percent of those surveyed.
- 81 percent can communicate with patients via email or
alerts in contrast to 63 percent of all respondents.
Driven beyond the requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 2,
this year's Most Wired hospitals are utilizing the benefits
of a patient portal to get patients actively involved in
their health and healthcare. For instance, 89 percent of
Most Wired organizations offer access to the patient portal
through a mobile application. Other key findings include:
- 67 percent of Most Wired hospitals offer the ability
to incorporate patient-generated data.
- 63 percent offer self-management tools for chronic
conditions.
- 60 percent offer patient-specific education in
multiple languages.
“We commend and congratulate this year’s Most Wired
hospitals for improving care delivery and outcomes in
our nation’s hospitals through their creative and
revolutionary uses of technology,” said CHIME CEO and
President Russell P. Branzell, FCHIME CHCIO. “These Most
Wired organizations represent excellence in IT
leadership on the frontlines of healthcare
transformation.”
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“Congratulations to our nation’s Most Wired hospitals for harnessing the
potential of information technology to improve quality care and patient safety
and lower health care costs,” said Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the
AHA. “At the forefront of the field, these hospitals are setting the bar for
protection of patient data through discerning security measures.”
HealthCare’s Most Wired™ Survey, conducted between Jan. 15 and March 15, 2015,
is published annually by Health & Hospitals Network. Respondents completed 741
surveys, representing more than 39 percent of all U.S. hospitals. Last October,
the AHA/Health Forum and CHIME announced the formation of a Most Wired
partnership to enhance collaboration between the two organizations in the
development and sustainability of the survey, and to collectively help meet the
growing demand for useful data on health IT integration.
Detailed results of the survey and study can be found in the July issue of H&HN.
For a full list of winners visit www.hhnmag.com.
About Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
Abraham Lincoln Memorial is a 25-bed critical access hospital located in
Lincoln, Illinois. For more information, please visit www.ALMH.org.
About the American Hospital Association
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that
represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their
patients and communities. Nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks,
other providers of care and 43,000 individual members come together to form the
AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is
a source of information on health care issues and trends. For more information,
please visit www.aha.org.
About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an
executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other
senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,500 CIO members and over 150
healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly
interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry
leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional
development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to
improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more
information, please visit
www.chimecentral.org.
About Health Forum
Health Forum is a strategic business enterprise of the American Hospital
Association, creatively partnering to develop and deliver essential information
and innovative services to help health care leaders achieve organizational
performance excellence and sustainability. For more information, please visit
www.healthforum.com
About our Sponsor
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on VMware's industry-leading virtualization technology, our solutions deliver a
brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and more secure. Customers can
innovate faster by rapidly developing, automatically delivering and more safely
consuming any application. With 2014 revenues of $6 billion, VMware has more
than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in
Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at
www.vmware.com.
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