Mike Davis Looks at the Past, the Present, and the Future of EHR Adoption—and Customization
Healthcare Informatics February 11, 2018
Mike Davis, a well-known healthcare IT leader, is perhaps best known as one of the developers of the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM [electronic medical record adoption model] schematic, which he and other members of the HIMSS Analytics team developed in 2005. HIMSS Analytics is a division of the Chicago-based HIMSS (Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society). The EMRAM, according to the website devoted to the subject, “is an eight stage (0-7) model that measures the adoption and utilization of EMR functions required to achieve a near paperless environment that harnesses technology to support optimized patient care.” Since the development of the original EMRAM, HIMSS Analytics introduced its an Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, or O-EMRAM, in 2010. The EMRAM model...