Another top distinction is achieved by Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS), through its recent effort with innovations in technology.
NGHS has made it a priority to help make people’s lives better and easier through its dedication to innovating through technology. That focus led to NGHS recently becoming one of only 26 health systems across the nation and only one in Georgia to receive Level 10 Digital Health Most Wired status from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
NGHS recently received Level 10 status for Most Wired Digital Health from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. Through this, NGHS is the only one in Georgia in implementation and use of IT for patients, placing it in elite company with other leading national health systems such as Cedars Sinai (Los Angeles), NYU Langone Health (New York City), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and more.
A press release from NGHS indicated that their system was visited by independent, third-party surveyors who measured the organization’s adoption, implementation and use of information technology. According to CHIME, organizations that achieve Level 10 are leaders in healthcare technology who actively push the industry forward and see meaningful outcomes including improved quality of care, access to healthcare services, and experiences for patients.
a few aspects of the work being done at NGHS including:
- Linking systems and people to improve day-to-day care: NGHS developed a Care Traffic Control Center that puts decision-makers from several different teams across the health system into one physical location and provides them with real-time data from several systems on large screens, so they can more easily identify challenges and work together to create solutions faster. Surveyors said the Care Traffic Control Center "truly enhances decision-making and drives meaningful improvements."
- Using exceptional analytics to help shape the future: NGHS’ technology and dashboards provide detailed data about the area’s population, which helps inform leaders about where new clinical and non-clinical services should be developed and how to improve existing processes to better serve the region.
- Engaged leadership: CHIME surveyors said they were impressed by the active engagement of NGHS’ operational leaders in using technology and data to drive conversations and inform how care and support services are delivered.
You can take advantage of how NGHS is using technology by going online at nghs.com.
