Recent News: MEDITECH Customer Among Three More Hospitals to Reach Stage 7

CHICAGO, IL, January 25, 2010 -- Three more hospitals have been recognized for attaining Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics Adoption Model.

Citizens Memorial Hospital in Boliver, Mo., Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Palo Alto, Calif., and the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wis., have been validated by HIMSS Analytics, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, for delivering care without the use of paper charts and readily sharing clinical information with other care providers via electronic transactions.

Citizens Memorial Healthcare, a 76-bed fully-integrated healthcare system, is being showcased by HIMSS as a model for what small community hospitals can achieve with healthcare information technology. The hospital implemented an electronic health record from Westwood, Mass-based Meditech in 1999 and, according to CIO Denni McColm, has been reaping the benefits ever since. According to Wellesley, Mass.-based Nucleus Research, the return on investment for the first year it was implemented was 1,321 percent, and over three years the hospital's ROI came in at 2,912 percent.

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