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Jan. 31 - HIMSS Analytics Doubles the Number of Free Benchmark Reports Given to Healthcare Organizations

HIMSS Analytics announced today that it has more than doubled the benchmarking reports made available to healthcare providers. The new reports include 27 additional hospital-level reports and 13 new reports that compare de-identified healthcare system IDS/datacenter information. These FREE hospital benchmarking reports are offered to all healthcare providers who complete HIMSS Analytics’ Annual Study, which populates the HIMSS Analytics Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ Database™). The reports have enhanced, highly flexible peer-selection capabilities that enable users to define peers based on 32 characteristics.

“IT senior executives need to know how they compare to peers with the same level of technology complexity, not just the same bed size,” said Dave Garets, president and CEO of HIMSS Analytics. “Our new benchmarking reports let participating executives sort the data to develop a targeted analysis that can help them tell their story.”

These reports compare an organization’s IT metrics to similar hospitals or health systems in areas such as, budget, IT and clinician FTE’s, workload statistics, capital and operating budgets, and Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model scores. Developed in 2005 by HIMSS Analytics, the EMR Adoption ModelSM identifies and scores hospitals in an eight-step scale that charts the path to a fully digital environment.

HIMSS Analytics collects data from more than 5,000 US hospitals and hospitals in Canada to provide an accurate and a current review of EMR implementations. Chief information officers and other healthcare executives who participate in HIMSS Analytics Annual Study can update their data themselves by entering it into the user-friendly Web-enabled data collection interface or specially designed Excel spreadsheets, which have dropdown boxes for easier data input, while also improving data accuracy. They can also do the update through interviews with HIMSS Analytics researchers.

Source: HIMSS

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