YRMC wins ‘Most Wired’
Only four Arizona hospitals awarded the honor this year
The ability of Yuma Regional Medical Center to apply advanced technology to provide high-quality patient care has been recognized with a national honor.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) recently announced that YRMC has been awarded the 2019 CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired designation.
“This honor really is due to the organization-wide commitment it takes to continually focus resources on maintaining the necessary infrastructure to support our staff and our patients,” said Fred Peet, YRMC vice president of information technology and chief information officer.
A total of 16,168 organizations were represented in the 2019 Most Wired program. CHIME assessed the adoption, integration and impact of technologies in healthcare organizations at all stages of development, from early development to industry leading.
Only four other Arizona hospitals earned this year’s Most Wired honor: Northern Arizona Healthcare in Flagstaff; Tucson Medical Center Healthcare; Banner Health in Phoenix; and Yavapai Regional Medical
Center in Lake Havasu.
“Healthcare organizations across the globe are continually striving to raise the standard of care, pushing themselves and their peers to do better,” said CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell. “We designed Most Wired to identify and share those leading practices so everyone can benefit. It is an honor to be among those that perform at the highest levels, knowing that the excellence they achieve will impact patients for years to come.”
Each participating organization received a customized benchmarking report,
an overall score and scores for individual levels in eight segments: infrastructure; security; business/ disaster recovery; administrative/supply chain; analytics/data management; interoperability/population health; patient engagement; and clinical quality/ safety.
Participants can use the report and scores to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement.
This is the second year that CHIME has conducted the survey and overseen the program. Last year CHIME made numerous improvements to the survey, governance and scoring methodology. This year CHIME added an ambulatory survey in addition to the
domestic survey, expanded international outreach and incorporated an improved system that allows participating organizations to better benchmark their level of adoption and outcomes achieved.
The system includes Most Wired certification at a level that reflects an organization’s overall performance. CHIME also revised the customized benchmarking report for ease of use and will again publish a report based on Most Wired responses to identify industry trends in 2019.
CHIME is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers, chief medical information officers, chief nursing information officers,
chief innovation officers, chief digital officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders.
With more than 2,900 members in 56 countries and more than 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME provides a “highly interactive, trusted environment” enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve.
For more information, visit chimecentral.org.