“Most Wired” Hospital Turns to Integration, Big Data Analytics

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Each year, choosing the healthcare organizations that make it onto the Hospitals & Health Networks “Most Wired” list must get a little more difficult. As providers strive to develop integrated EHR infrastructure and start to come to grips with healthcare big data analytics, the health IT capabilities of organizations nationwide are growing by leaps and bounds, raising the bar for their peers.

A few special hospitals will always stand out from the crowd, however, for their commitment to leveraging health IT for remarkable improvements in patient care. St. Joseph Mercy Oakland (SJMO) in Pontiac, Michigan, a 443-bed community teaching hospital, is one of those organizations that goes far above and beyond the basics of using electronic health records for clinical care.

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