Healthcare IT News July 29, 2024
The hospital group has recently demonstrated EMR and IT infrastructure maturity above the regional and global averages.
Catholic Medical Center, a hospital network in South Korea, has recently undergone digital health assessments to measure the baseline maturity of its hospitals.
Widely adopted digital health assessment tools from HIMSS were applied, namely the Digital Health Indicator (DHI), Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), and Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM).
The DHI measures an organisation’s progress in building digital ecosystem capacity across four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. Meanwhile, the EMRAM and INFRAM measure its EMR and IT infrastructure maturity, respectively.
FINDINGS
CMC has eight affiliate hospitals: Seoul St Mary’s, Yeouido St Mary’s, Uijeongbu St Mary’s,...