Hilo Medical Center was named a 2015 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Enterprise Davies Award recipient.
Hilo Medical Center was named a 2015 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Enterprise Davies Award recipient.
Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has honored outstanding achievement of organizations using health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment.
The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons learned across a wide range of efforts, including implementation strategies, work-flow design, best practice development and adherence and patient engagement that have improved financial and care outcomes.
Hilo Medical Center is a part of the East Hawaii Region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corp., serving as a safety-net hospital for two critical access hospitals, Hale Ho‘ola Hamakua and Ka‘u Hospital. The East Hawaii Region also includes nine outpatient clinics with specialties. HMC is a 276-bed facility with 137 acute beds, 20-bed behavioral health facility, and 119-bed long-term care facility.
Hilo Medical Center will be honored during the Feb. 29-March 4, 2016, HIMSS Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas. Hilo and other peer-reviewed case studies demonstrating how health information technology can be utilized to improve patient safety, care outcomes and increase cost savings can be found in the HIMSS Value Suite.
Only 39 Davies Enterprise/Organizational Awards were presented since 1995.
Gov. David Ige recently honored Hilo Medical Center in the governor’s ceremonial room on the fifth floor of the state Capitol.