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 The Most Wired program conducts an annual survey to assess how
effectively healthcare organizations apply core and advanced
technologies into their clinical and business programs to improve
health and care in their communities.
“Healthcare organizations across the globe are continually striving
to raise the standard of care, pushing themselves and their peers to
do better,” said CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell. “We designed
Most Wired to identify and share those leading practices so everyone
can benefit. It is an honor to be among those that perform at the
highest levels, knowing that the excellence they achieve will impact
patients for years to come.”
“We are very proud to earn this recognition,” said Dolan Dalpoas,
president and chief executive officer for Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital. “This award confirms our successful use of technology to
improve efficiency, quality and safety to improve the health of the
people and communities we serve.”
A total of 16,168 organizations were represented in the 2019 Most
Wired program, which this year included three separate surveys:
domestic, ambulatory and international. The surveys assessed the
adoption, integration and impact of technologies in healthcare
organizations at all stages of development, from early development
to industry leading. Each participating organization received a
customized benchmarking report, an overall score and scores for
individual levels in eight segments: infrastructure; security;
business/disaster recovery; administrative/supply chain;
analytics/data management; interoperability/population health;
patient engagement; and clinical quality/safety. Participants can
use the report and scores to identify strengths and opportunities
for improvement.
This is the second year that CHIME has conducted the survey and
overseen the program. Last year CHIME made numerous improvements to
the survey, governance and scoring methodology.
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This year CHIME added an ambulatory survey in addition to the domestic survey,
expanded international outreach and incorporated an improved system that allows
participating organizations to better benchmark their level of adoption and
outcomes achieved.
The system includes Most Wired certification at a level that reflects an
organization’s overall performance. CHIME also revised the customized
benchmarking report for ease of use and will again publish a report based on
Most Wired responses to identify industry trends in 2019.
ALMH is a 25-bed critical access hospital located at 200 Stahlhut Drive in
Lincoln, Illinois and is an affiliate of Memorial Health System. For more
information about ALMH, visit ALMH.org.
About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an
executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs),
chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs),
chief innovation officers (CIOs), Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) and other senior
healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,900 members in 56 countries and over 150
healthcare IT business partners 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 care in the communities they serve. For more information,
please visit chimecentral.org.
[Angela Stoltzenburg]
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