HIMSS analytics sees progress in hospitals' advanced EHR adoption

After a period of stagnation in electronic health record adoption in 2013, hospitals in the first and second quarters of 2014 have taken steps to advance health IT efforts, according to the latest HIMSS Analytics data, EHR Intelligence reports. HIMSS Analytics is the research arm of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. HIMSS Analytics uses an eight-stage EMR Adoption Model to track the progress of hospitals and health systems in implementing EHRs. Although the top tier of the model is the seventh stage, hospitals generally can qualify for Stage 1 meaningful use incentives at the fourth stage of EMRAM.