FHW TAKES THE STAGE

Florida Hospital Waterman (FHW) received the Stage 7 Award from Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics, a nationwide system used to track electronic medical records progress at hospitals and health systems. The hospital was recognized during the annual HIMSS conference last month in Orlando.

FHW was only the second Adventist Health System hospital in Florida to achieve this designation. In fact, less than 5 percent of hospitals nationwide reached Stage 7. According to HIMSS Analytics, Stage 7 hospitals “have a very real competitive and quality advantage, as they support the true sharing, information exchange, and immediate delivery of patient data to improve process performance, quality of care, and patient safety.”