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Barcelona,
SPAIN, 21 November 2016: The World of Health IT (WoHIT) has opened
its doors to over 1,000 healthcare IT professionals from across 25
different countries worldwide today. Covering a range of the hottest
topics in the industry, from mHealth and cybersecurity to genomics
and integrated care, WoHIT has gathered the whole of the European and
global eHealth community together.
Steve
Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS and John Rayner, Regional Director
of HIMSS Analytics opened the event, held in Barcelona, with
recognition of European hospitals who have achieved an exceptionally
high level of digital maturity. Tire Devlet Hastanesi in Izmir
Hospital, in Turkey was awarded EMRAM Stage, which demonstrates the
highest level of digital maturity in a hospital. It is the fourth
hospital to ever be awarded in Europe following outstanding EMR
integration in all clinical areas, with all medical paper records
replaced by digital documentation.