North York General Hospital, a community academic hospital located in the Toronto suburb of North York, Ontario has been named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Through partnerships, collaboration and academic endeavours, North York General seeks to set new standards for patient- and family-centred care. NYGH submitted four case studies demonstrating how they leveraged health IT to improve patient outcomes.- NYGH implemented closed-loop medication administration (CLMA.) By
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Mercy Named 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award for Improving Patient Care Through Health IT
Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic health care system in the nation, was named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient for achieving improvements in patient care through the use of health information technology. Mercy received the award from HIMSS based on four case studies that detailed how the use of health information technology and standardized clinical processes have improved patient care and the bottom line. The case studies included:- Decreasing by nearly three hours the time it
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Hawaii Pacific Health Receives 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award
Hawai‘i Pacific Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, has been named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Hawaii Pacific Health is only the second two-time winner of the Davies Enterprise Award of Excellence since the program’s inception.Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology (IT) to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving a
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