Renie Taylor, Administrator at Stone County Medical Center, accepts the Most Wired-Small and Rural Award for SCMC from (left) Paul E. McRae, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Emerging Technologies at AT&T and (right) Walter Reid, McKesson Provider Technologies’ Vice President of product strategy and marketing for Paragon.
Stone County Medical Center (SCMC) in Mountain View has been recognized as one of the nation’s Most Wired Small and Rural hospitals, according to the results of the 2012 Most Wired Survey in Hospitals & Health Networks (HHN) magazine. The magazine is published by the American Hospital Association (AHA). SCMC received the award for their implementation of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and was the only hospital in the state and one of 25 rural hospitals in the nation to win the 2012 award.
Health Care’s Most Wired Survey, conducted between January 15 and March 15, measures information technology (IT) adoption, implementation and use, and the application of the meaningful use definition, or a series of final rules that will help hospitals apply new technology in the next few years. The nation’s Most Wired hospitals are encouraging the adoption and use of health information technology (IT) to improve performance in a number of areas. Respondents completed 662 surveys, representing 1,570 hospitals, or roughly 27 percent of all U.S. hospitals.
“I’m very proud of the dedication our staff has shown during the implementation of SCMC’s electronic medical record,” said Renie Taylor, Administrator at SCMC.
SCMC, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mountain View, was recognized for this award for the level of completion of a paperless medical record that will improve the patient experience through information technologies.
“As shown by these survey results, hospitals continue to demonstrate how IT not only can be used to improve patient care and safety but it is also a means to improve efficiency,” says Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 40,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends.
