Who is moving forward with EHR/HIT Adoption?

This page will contain a list of payers/providers and others who have announced their plans to move forward with electronic health record (EHR) and Healthcare IT (HIT) projects. Check back later for updates as they are found. And please comment and share updates as You find them!

We're breaking ground!

• 11/18/08       Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
• 12/01/08       Aetna   
• 12/05/08       Blue Cross Blue Shield
• 12/08/08       St. Vincent's Hospital of New York
• 12/08/08       4 Federally Qualified Health Centers:  Riverstone Health, Butte Community Health Center, Partnership Health, and Cooperative Health
• 12/11/08      Puget Sound Family Physicians (PSFP)
• 12/18/08      Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
• 12/18/08      St. Joseph Health System - 14 hospitals in California and Texas
• 12/19/08      Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit)
• 12/19/08      The HSC Pediatric Center (D.C.)
• 12/22/08      Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and St. Luke's Boise Medical Center and St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center (Idaho)
• 12/24/08      Nationwide Health Information Network presents a list of EHR Adopters
• 12/29/08      Long Beach Network for Health (LBNH)
• 01/04/09      ADS Announces EMR Solution
• 01/05/09      Children's National Medical Center
• 01/05/09      Horizon Gynecology & Obstetric Associates (Georgia)
• 01/06/09      Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
• 01/11/09      The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
• 01/12/09      Utah Health Information Network (UHIN)
• 01/13/09      HHS launches Web-based family health history tool
• 01/13/09      Woman's Hospital of Baton Rouge, LA
• 01/19/09      South Jersey Healthcare
• 01/19/09      West Virginia University Hospitals
• 01/22/09      Partners HealthCare
• 01/30/09      Lourdes Hospital provides clinicians with a single technology for accessing, evaluating and acting upon patient information.
• 02/01/09      South Jersey Healthcare offers physicians financial subsidy for implementing an EHR
• 02/02/09      Crusader Community Health
• 02/02/09      Scott & While Healthcare
• 02/06/09      Clara Maass Medical Center
• 02/07/09      University of Virginia Health System - This is exciting for since I spent a summer in their Neurology Unit as a Nurse Extern! Great Hospital. Congratulations UVAHS!
• 02/09/09      Hiawatha Community Hospital
• 02/13/09      Genesis Physicians Group
• 02/13/09      Rochester Regional Health Information Organization of N.Y.
• 02/18/09      AltaMed Health Services, Valley-Wide Health Systems
• 02/20/09      California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) and the Orange County Partnership Regional Health Information Organization (OCPRHIO) Plans are to link California ERs with access to patient information.
• 02/20/09      Pee Dee Cardiology
• 02/24/09      Indiana University - Interesting! The University is providing PHRs for their student population!

Note: This list is evergreen and I am wondering if I will be able to keep up with the many new providers, facilities, and organizations looking to adopt healthcare technology. Could the new Stimulus (HITECH Act) have anything to do with it?

I'll do my best to keep up with the list, and hopefully I won't miss too many. We live in exciting (and challenging) times.

• 02/26/09     Capella Healthcare, the Memorial Hermann Hospital System, Trillium Health Centre and Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• 02/27/09     Moffitt Cancer Center, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center, Franklin Medical Center
• Plus....The following list has achieved Stage 6 of the HIMSS Adoption Model :   

1. Midland Memorial Hospital, Midland, Texas
2. Clarian North Medical Center, Carmel, Ind.
3. Newport Hospital (148 Beds), Newport, R.I.
4. NorthShore University HealthSystem (3 hospitals reached Stage 6), Evanston, Ill.
5. Citizens Memorial Healthcare, Bolivar, Mo.
6. Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah, Ga.
7. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, La.
8. St. Clair Memorial Hospital, Pittsburgh
9. St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore
10 University Health System, San Antonio
11. Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Ill.
12. HCA - Lewis Gale Medical Center, Salem, Va.
13. UC-San Diego Medical Center (2 hospitals), San Diego
14. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2 hospitals), Nashville, Tenn.
15. SSM Health Care (2 hospitals), St. Louis
16. Watertown Memorial Hospital, Watertown, Wis.
17. UPMC (2 hospitals), Pittsburgh
18. Parkview Adventist Medical Center, Brunswick, Maine
19. Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago
20. Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Wash.
21. Stellaris Health Network (3 hospitals), Armonk, N.Y.
22. Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, Chicago
23. Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass.
24. Kaiser Permanente Health Foundation (11 hospitals), Oakland, Calif.

• 03/03/09     Wheeling Hospital
• 03/05/09     Pediatric Associates of Washington State
• 03/09/09    15 Facilities reached Stage 7 of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model!! Kaiser hospitals in California and all three NorthShore acute care facilities in the suburbs of Chicago (listed below):

The Kaiser Stage 7 hospitals are:

• South San Francisco Medical Center (127 Beds)
• South Sacramento Medical Center (228 Beds)
• Sacramento Medical Center (331 Beds)
• Roseville Medical Center (166 Beds)
• Modesto Medical Center (220 Beds)
• Manteca Hospital (77 Beds)
• Walnut Creek Medical Center (229 Beds)
• Antioch Medical Center (130 Beds)
• Hayward Medical Center (200 Beds)
• Fremont Medical Center (106 Beds)
• Santa Rosa Medical Center (112 Beds)
• Irvine Medical Center (150 Beds)

                     NorthShore University HealthSystem includes:

• Evanston Hospital (389 Beds)
• Glenbrook Hospital (143 Beds)
• Highland Park Hospital (211 Beds)

• 03/20/09 Lahey Clinic
• 03/26/09 St. Joseph's Hospital (Nashua, NH)
• 03/31/09 West Carroll Memorial Hospital