INDIA — Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited, a healthcare pioneer and India’s first multi-specialty hospital chain, received Level 9 achievement in the coveted 2022 Digital Health Most Wired Survey results released by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
Apollo Hospitals ranked significantly higher than peers in categories such as analytics and data management, population health, infrastructure, and patient engagement.
The survey assessed technology adoption, integration, and impact in healthcare organizations at all stages of development, from early development to those leading in the industry.
The Digital Health Most Wired survey and recognition program serves as a comprehensive “Digital Health Check-up” for healthcare organizations worldwide.
The CHIME Digital Health Most Wired program conducts an annual survey to assess how effectively healthcare organizations use advanced IT in their clinical and business operations to improve the health of their communities. The program evaluated nearly 39,000 facilities this year.
As success in digital health increasingly determines the quality of patient care, the scope of the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired survey reflects the progress of leading healthcare providers as they reinvent healthcare for a new century.
Achieving this fete is a reflection of Apollo Hospital’s commitment to imbibing technology into its work processes.
Just recently, the hospital chain launched its in-house developed automated, rapid-response patient monitoring system, which will monitor and proactively alert a team of experts if an unexpected deterioration in patient health is anticipated.
This will significantly improve timely intervention with the appropriate experts, resulting in significant improvements in patient condition management and health outcomes.
On top of this milestone, Apollo Hospitals also achieved Stage 6 accreditations for three Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) digital maturity models for its digital health capabilities.
It bagged accreditations for the Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM), the Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (O-EMRAM), and the Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM).
Consequently, Apollo Hospitals became the first in the APAC region and second in the world to achieve DIAM Stage 6.
STAGE 6 enables Structured or Coded Data from external sources to be integrated into the Clinical Data Repository, an icon used to indicate external data is available for clinician teams.
Farther afield in the US, CHIME has named University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) one of the nation’s “Digital Health Most Wired” health systems for the 24th consecutive year.
UPMC earned the highest score possible of a level 10 rating in the domestic ambulatory and acute categories.
To achieve this recognition, UPMC and other organizations implemented advanced health IT, including telemedicine and cost analysis tools, to improve care while reducing costs.
Over the last five years, UPMC has invested more than US$2.4 billion in technologies across the health system to improve the quality of care.
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