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Title Anam Hospital Ranked 3rd in the World in Hospital Digitalization
Hospital ANAM
Date 2021-12-14
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Anam Hospital Ranked 3rd in the World

Korea University Anam Hospital has been recognized as a world-class digital
transformation powerhouse in the category of medicine.
Anam Hospital
ranked third in the world in digitalization of hospital medical systems as
evaluated by the North American Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS), the largest IT society in the world.
Anam Hospital
has already established itself as a pioneer in digital transformation both at
home and abroad by adopting Korea's first cloud-based precision medical
hospital information system (P-HIS) developed by Korea University Medical
Center.
HIMSS evaluates the digitalization of hospital
medical systems, and the results are represented by the Digital Health
Indicator (DHI). The higher the score, the more progress a hospital has made
toward creating a digital health ecosystem. Korea University Anam Hospital is
the first Korean medical institution evaluated using the HIMSS DHI, and it
received 308 points out of a total score of 400 points.
Anam Hospital
ranked third in the world following the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong and the
Ochsner Health System in the United States. Considering the average score in
the Asia-Pacific region is 153 points and 229 points in North America, Anam
Hospital’s ranking is near the top of the pack.
The evaluation was conducted across four
categories: interoperability (94%), personal-enabled health (86%), predictive
analytics (84%), and governance and workforce (94%). Anam Hospital’s excellence
was especially recognized in the interoperability category, which indicates unrestricted
compatibility with other systems in various environments. This implies that Anam
Hospital has established an optimal digital ecosystem based on the cloud system
of medical information.
President Eul-Sik Yoon said, "The high score
that we received on the HIMSS DHI represents our efforts to provide better
services to our patients as well as to build an effective digital system. It
will allow us to expand our services in both conventional and digital
healthcare."
The P-HIS is a national project launched by
the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, in
which Korea University Medical Center has participated as a research institute since
2017. The “P” in P-HIS stands for Post, Precision, and Personalized, and the “HIS”
stands for Hospital Information System. The system was developed using the cloud
as there is a growing need to support precision medicine with big data based on
a standardized medical information system in line with the rapidly growing amount
of personal health information. A modularized system allows hospitals to adopt only
the modules they need according to their size while data sharing between
hospitals can prevent duplicate testing and enable customized administration of
medicine. All in all, it can improve treatment efficiency and patient safety
while reducing medical costs. In addition, big data recorded by P-HIS can be
analyzed, and the findings can be used to prevent and treat diseases. In this
way, cloud-based systems can also boost medical research.