Healthcare decision makers like Brian Herrick, CMIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, are voicing their support of valuable tools that allow them to take an evidence-based approach when embarking on the next steps of EMR implementation. 

When partnering with HIMSS Analytics Healthcare Advisory Services Group, in particular, utilizing the HIMSS Analytics Benchmark Suite, organizations work with experts who are already familiar with their systems and use state-of-the-art assessment tools—which provide both advice and collaboration, facilitating better health and healthcare. Herrick expressed how helpful it was to have the ability to quantify the value of their health IT initiatives.

Brian Herrick of Cambridge Health Alliance on the value of achieving EMRAM Stage 7

Those like Cambridge Health Alliance—that achieve Stage 7—join an elite group of organizations that have reached the top tier of health IT adoption and utilization. Hospitals like Cambridge can be confident that they are implementing technology that will lead to clinical and operational success. 

Over 25 years of data about health IT implementations enables hospital CIOs to prioritize their IT implementations and then measure and demonstrate their success against other healthcare organizations. Cambridge Health Alliance is just one example of how a hospital was able to accomplish many goals by partnering with HIMSS Analytics to chart their course and achieve Stage 7 on the EMRAM.

Read Cambridge Health Alliance's HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 7 case study.