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Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model
(EMRAM)℠
Facilitate your progress toward paperless.
HIMSS Analytics has created the EMR Adoption Model, an 8-stage model that allows you to track your progress against healthcare organizations across the country and view all scores in the HIMSS Analytics® Database. Schedule your Stage 7 site visit now.
How do I get my score?
How do I increase my score?
Let the team who created EMRAM walk you through each stage and create a custom path using your organization’s resources and timeline to help you reach your goal. Ask about our EMRAM Gap Analysis.
Where do I go from here?
Continuous improvement isn't optional in healthcare - it's necessary. Even elite Stage 7 organizations continue to evolve. The Continuity of Care Maturity Model can show how close you are to delivering true interconnected healthcare.
| STAGE | 2016 Q2 | 2016 Q3 |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 7 | 4.5% | 4.6% |
| Stage 6 | 29.8% | 30.5% |
| Stage 5 | 34.8% | 34.5% |
| Stage 4 | 10.0% | 10.1% |
| Stage 3 | 14.4% | 14.1% |
| Stage 2 | 2.3% | 2.2% |
| Stage 1 | 1.8% | 1.7% |
| Stage 0 | 2.5% | 2.4% |
| N = 5455 | N = 5449 |
| STAGE | 2016 Q2 | 2016 Q3 |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 7 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Stage 6 | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| Stage 5 | 3.6% | 3.7% |
| Stage 4 | 1.6% | 1.3% |
| Stage 3 | 31.2% | 31.4% |
| Stage 2 | 30.3% | 30.3% |
| Stage 1 | 15.0% | 15.0% |
| Stage 0 | 17.3% | 17.2% |
| N = 641 | N = 641 |
| STAGE | 2016 Q3 |
|---|---|
| Stage 7 | 10.01% |
| Stage 6 | 17.53% |
| Stage 5 | 7.00% |
| Stage 4 | 0.83% |
| Stage 3 | 10.49% |
| Stage 2 | 19.27% |
| Stage 1 | 32.64% |
| Stage 0 | 2.25% |
| N = 40,153 |
“The EMR Adoption Model has been of vital importance to me to help substantiate our EMR progress to my constituents.”
EMRAM Stage Criteria
Get a detailed look at what each Stage of the EMR Adoption Model entails. Download the PDF preview for a full overview.
Stage 7 Case Studies
Validated Stage 6 & 7 Organization List
HIMSS Analytics has tracked the adoption of EMR technologies within hospitals since 2005 and within clinics since 2012 using the EMR Adoption Model℠ (EMRAM) and Outpatient EMR Adoption Model℠ (O-EMRAM). Institutions work to complete the 8 stages (0 - 7), with the goal of reaching Stage 7: an environment where paper charts are no longer used. This list is updated weekly.
View Organization List
About the Case Studies
Stage 7 healthcare organizations demonstrate superior implementation and utilization of health IT systems. Their achievement has resulted in the true sharing, information exchange and immediate delivery of patient data to improve process performance, quality of care and safety.
These case studies provide insight and guidance that others can emulate. They are also a summary of each organization’s journey to the top of the EMR Adoption Model.
About the Case Studies
HIMSS Analytics CapSite Database
Selection
When you’re in a marathon vendor selection process, the executed contracts and proposals in the CapSite Database can be a shortcut to the finish line. Search thousands of documents, including terms & conditions to help you find the right fit.
Negotiation
With thousands of executed contracts and proposals from over 1,600 vendors, you're able to approach purchasing decisions well-versed in Terms & Conditions and pricing.
Justification
Sometimes defending your purchasing decision is more difficult than making it. Find peers’ contracts, proposals and RFPs for similar purchases in the CapSite Database and use the details to build your case.
“We use HIMSS Analytics Benchmarking Reports to influence stakeholders, drive the innovation process and optimize our IT strategy.”
Benchmarks Suite
Guide your healthcare IT strategies
HIMSS Analytics provides advisory services to assist healthcare delivery organizations achieve best in class rankings that will move the industry forward to better health worldwide. Its Benchmarks Suite includes models and assessment tools that are proven and innovative frameworks steeped in extensive research and experience gained from working with providers, leaders and stakeholders around the world.
Annual Study
Together we can shape tomorrow.
The Annual Study collects information relating to software, products, hardware inventory, and clinician use of health IT. Aggregate data is de-identified and shared with other healthcare organizations that also complete the study to help encourage collaboration and advance the industry overall.
Participation gives you access to the benefits below and provides your organization with the tools to move ahead.
EMRAM Score
The HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)℠ was created to track healthcare organizations’ progress towards achieving a paperless patient record environment. Hospitals and ambulatory care facilities are scored based on their level of a EMR adoption from Stage 0 through Stage 7.
Hospital Profiles
Hospital Profiles allow you to view a succinct inventory of your organization’s information technology, as well as general hospital statistics ranging from number of physicians and licensed beds to total number of patient days.
Benchmarking Reports
These reports compare your organization's operations to peers based on IT budget, staffing and service levels. Benchmarking reports also include comparisons of clinical application portfolio capabilities using HIMSS Analytics EMRAM scoring algorithms.
HIMSS Analytics Logic
HIMSS Analytics Logic gives you access to the most accurate and current market intelligence available. Invaluable data including software, hardware and infrastructure portfolios of every hospital in the U.S., is at your fingertips.