Recent News: maxIT Assists Medical Center to Achieve Prestigious Stage 6 Recognition

GRMC is number one in New Mexico and among the top one percent of healthcare organizations in North America to achieve Stage 6 of 7 in the MEDITECH EMR Adoption Model.

WESTFIELD, IN (August, 2009) -- maxIT Healthcare, LLC (maxIT), a leading professional consulting services company for healthcare pro¬viders, announced the successful “Stage 6” designation of Gila Regional Medical Center (GRMC), a 68-bed, not-for-profit, county-owned hospital located in Silver City, New Mexico. maxIT assisted the Phoenix Health Systems client by providing GRMC with experienced MEDITECH IT consultants to support the implementation of several HIS modules. Beginning with an operations assessment, maxIT assisted GRMC with a major systems upgrade and Phoenix Health Systems hosted the data center relocation effort. Immediately following the systems upgrade, Phoenix and maxIT collaborated with the hospital staff and physicians to put together a remediation plan that provided the appropriate guidance and action required to reach this outstanding accomplishment. GRMC has become one of the most recent hospitals to achieve Stage 6 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.

According to David Furnas, Chief Information Officer at GRMC, “We are delighted to continue our commitment of improved care delivery, enhanced patient safety, and increased efficiency to our community. Becoming a Stage 6 hospital and the benefits of a virtually paperless medical record environment, demonstrates our willingness to invest in the types of technology enhancements that ultimately provide better value for our patients.” Mr. Furnas continued, “Phoenix’s help and maxIT’s involvement was instrumental in getting us through a major system upgrade, as well as remediation and implementation assistance that have helped us across the finish line. We are pleased with their level of knowledge, leadership, and clinical experience that made working with maxIT a very enjoyable experience.”

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