Ochsner Health System (OHS), with locations in Louisiana was honored at the 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference for achieving Stage 7 EMRAM in 2015. Hospital and practice leaders and decision makers turn to the HIMSS Analytics Benchmark Suite, including the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), to chart their path forward to reducing costs and increasing the quality of care in their facilities by implementing electronic medical records.

About Ochsner Health System

Ochsner Health System (OHS) is one of the largest independent academic health systems in the United States with 26 owned, managed, and affiliated hospitals and more than 60 health centers across the greater New Orleans, Baton Rouge, North Shore, Mississippi and Bayou Regions. In addition to this, the OHS clinic group practice surpassed 1,000 physicians in 2015 and is supported by an additional 1,500 affiliated and clinicallyintegrated physicians in more than 90 medical specialties and sub-specialties.

Why they chose the EMR Adoption Model

Ochsner Health System realized that to achieve their healthcare delivery goals they needed to continuously grow their information services and technology departments as the technology world advanced. With no standardized or best practice content across OHS, the organization recognized that what software and applications they did have needed to be updated and advanced. OHS needed one highly integrated, standardized EMR across the entire system to support and meet the rapidly evolving needs in healthcare. That being said, they also needed an EMR that supported the unique workflows of their many specialties, and one that could be enhanced as needed for different specialties and departments. In addition, OHS needed an EMR to assist in more efficiently integrating with community and affiliated physicians to manage entire patient populations. All of this needed to be done not only to support the organization's mission and vision, and standardize care across the system, but also to improve end-user and patient experience, quality of patient care, and help meet meaningful use incentives.

Read Ochsner Health System's full Stage 7 Case Study on their real-life implementation of their EMR technology and us of EMRAM.