Tainan City Hospital Achieves HIMSS Stage 7: Reaching International Standards in Smart Healthcare
台南首家市醫奪智慧醫療HIMSS最高殊榮 - 中華日報
Summary
Tainan City Hospital successfully obtained the highest international certification, HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7. This achievement signifies that the hospital has reached international benchmarks in digital governance and smart healthcare, symbolizing improvements in medical quality and patient safety.
Details
Tainan City Hospital achieved the prestigious HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Maturity Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 certification. This evaluation emphasizes not merely the quantity of equipment, but whether digital technology is truly integrated into clinical care processes to form a sustainable smart healthcare system. According to the hospital, achieving Stage 7 means establishing a patient-centered smart healthcare ecosystem that integrates electronic medical records, order systems, clinical decision support, smart nursing, and smart pharmacy. Specifically, combining closed-loop management mechanisms for drugs, lab tests, blood transfusions, and breastfeeding with barcode identification and system alerts helps reduce human error and improve quality. Furthermore, hospital officials highlighted the use of FHIR international standards and medical data platforms to strengthen cross-system data integration. The hospital plans to continue advancing technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), risk prediction analysis, telemedicine, and smart sensing, evolving medical services from passive recording to proactive warning. This represents a significant advancement in smart healthcare in Taiwan.
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