HIMSS names 2009 Davies Award recipients
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
By Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
A healthcare system Tacoma, Wash.; a women’s center in Virginia; a network of community health centers in the Bronx; and a health center called Heart of Texas will all receive a 2009 HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence.
HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, for the first time announced the award recipients during National Health IT Week.
The recipients will receive their awards at the HIMSS10 annual conference in Atlanta, March 1-4.
“The recipients of the HIMSS Davies Awards are leaders in EHR implementation as they prove that technology can be leveraged to produce value and achieve patient safety and quality outcomes with a positive ROI,” said David Collins, HIMSS director, healthcare information systems. “As the country moves closer to nationwide use of the electronic health record, these healthcare leaders should be considered as valuable examples and resources for EHR success.”
MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Wash., will receive the HIMSS Organizational Davies Award. MultiCare Health System has four hospitals, including a children’s hospital, primary and urgent care clinics and home health and hospice programs.
“MultiCare has been using this technology from Epic Systems for over 10 years,” said Florence S. Chang, CIO and senior vice president of clinical support services at MultiCare. “Without the strong foundation set early on in our clinics, the implementation in our hospitals would not have been as successful and we would not have reaped the benefits of seamless, connected care.”
Virginia Women’s Center in central Virginia will receive the HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award. The center is central Virginia’s largest provider of obstetric and gynecologic care, with 26 physicians and 12 nurse practitioners at five sites.
The Community Health Organization Davies Awards will go to Urban Health Plan (UHP) a network of federally qualified community health centers based in the South Bronx and Queens in New York, and to Heart of Texas in Waco, Texas, a federal qualified health center that serves 90,200 residents of McLennan County, Texas, who live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.
