Cedars-Sinai on HIMSS EMR Stage 7

Tess Settergren, MHA, MA, RN-BC, Director of Nursing Informatics, Cedars-Sinai Health System.Less than 3.5% of US hospitals have achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 status since 2006, and the bar is raised a bit more every year.  Clinician adoption of ‘paperless’ charts, order entry, and documentation is insufficient to meet Stage 7: Clinical decision support, continuum data integration, medical device integration, clinical analytics, and health information exchange represent additional critical success factors.  Tess covers the strategies, challenges, and benefits of Cedars-Sinai’s ‘HIMSS Stage 7 Readiness Project.’