Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (O-EMRAM)
The HIMSS Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (O-EMRAM) is used to assess EMR implementation for outpatient facilities of hospitals and health systems globally, guiding the data-driven advancement of facilities through EMR technology.
With the O-EMRAM, optimize the continuation of care for patients and populations outside the walls of the acute care setting, and ensure all care documentation is available online to the clinical team when and where they need it. Organizations can leverage the O-EMRAM to improve the person-enabled health and governance and workforce dimensions of digital health in the outpatient setting.

Measure Value
Assess the value provided to patients through the use of tools like patient portals, scheduling tools, lab test result alerts and communication platforms with care teams. Understand how your organization’s outpatient facility is communicating and measuring protocol adherence for patient registries. Expand the care capabilities for effectively facilitating virtual care and improved population health management.

Improve Efficiency
Increase the efficiency of your EMR implementations in the outpatient setting based on your organizational and workforce goals. Assess how data is used to monitor and manage performance and outcomes so clinicians can make incremental operational improvements.

Build Governance
Create the governance needed to ensure outpatient EMR technology provides value, functionality and communication with disparate care teams to deliver the best possible patient outcomes.

Achieve Goals
Every health system is different, as are its goals. Use the O-EMRAM as a model to improve the use of resources; manage population health, especially for at-risk populations; improve medication administration; and use real-time data to lead the health system and its workforce toward improved outcomes.