The most connected hospitals in the U.S. have made great strides in securing data and using it at the point of care but, as a whole, still have many hurdles to jump when it comes to interoperability and patient engagement.
Hospitals & Health Networks’ annual Most Wired list, released today, showed off some of the most tech-savvy hospitals in the U.S. but also revealed some humbling truths about where the industry is with technology adoption.
For example, less than half of Most Wired hospitals said they could electronically send diagnostic images to non-affiliated hospitals. Three out of five don’t ask for a patient’s preferred method of communication (email, text, phone). And only two-thirds have piloted or used a patient portal.
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But they are making progress with using data to guide care. Six years ago, not even two-thirds of the Most Wired hospitals could produce real-time alerts on drug-to-drug interactions, the magazine said. Now all of them can. And 80 percent have an enterprise-level governance structure for clinical analytics.
A total of 250 U.S. hospitals received the Most Wired stamp after participating in the magazine’s survey, which gauges how organization are planning for, using and securing IT. American Hospital Association information company Health Forum analyzed the data and developed benchmarks for IT adoption in infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality and safety, and clinical integration.
The list includes Banner Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Montefiore. See the full list here.
