5 Best Practices of AHA's "Most Wired" Hospitals

Hospitals & Health Networks, the flagship publication of the American Hospital Association, has released its annual list of the "Most Wired" hospitals.

A complete list of winners can be found here.

"This year's Most Wired organizations exemplify progress through innovation" said Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, in a news release. "The hospital field can learn from these outstanding organizations ways that IT can help to improve efficiency."

Some practices shared by the winning hospitals include:

  1. Use of an electronic disease registry (71 percent)
  2. Electronic medication order entry by physicians (69 percent)
  3. Sharing of patient discharge data with affiliated hospitals (66 percent)
  4. Providing a patient portal or web-based solution for patient-generated data (41 percent)
  5. Use of controlled experiments or scenario planning to make better decisions (32 percent)

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