Florida’s Community Health Centers Inc. Wins Davies Award For EHR Excellence

Community Health Centers Inc. has won a 2014 Community Health Organization Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) Davies Award of Excellence for use of health information technology, particularly electronic health records (EHR). Community Health Centers is a federally qualified community health center with 11 sites offering medical and dental care in central Florida.

The organization has created standardized processes for documenting patient education, patient engagement, care management and care coordination within the EHR. In early 2013, the baseline for pre-visit planning documentation in the EHR for planned care outcomes was 49 percent and a year later it stood at . . .