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. 2019 Jan 11;7(1):e12465. doi: 10.2196/12465

Table 4.

Technology features and services in the Infrastructure Maturity Model (IMM).

Maturity level Data use Technology services
Level 8 Orchestrated
  • Ability to link and coordinate processes in a centralized and automated fashion

  • Agile infrastructure, adaptable to the changing needs of the facility

Level 7 Contextualized
  • Clinical processes customized to role and context

  • Closed loop alerts and tasks

  • Patient, staff, physical devices, and other resource location identification

  • Analytics and dynamic resource management

Level 6 Integrated
  • Clinical processes on mobile devices

  • Combined info views for staff and patients

  • Bring your own device for staff and patients

  • Building Management Systems integration

  • Location services for key staff

Level 5 Externalized
  • Ability to virtualize the major clinical and operational hospital services for delivery independent of location

Level 4 Mobile
  • Clinical data available on mobile devices

  • Widely used mobile voice communications

  • Video services where needed

  • High level of collaboration services

  • Intelligent patient services

  • Duress services widely available

  • Locations services for equipment

Level 3 Fixed
  • Broad digital clinical data availability

  • Ordering and reporting largely paper

  • Results online, clinical data repository

  • Integrated and distributed telephony services

  • High performance personal computers

Level 2 Tactical
  • Department level apps to selected staff

  • Ordering/reporting/accessing are paper-based

  • Centralized high-quality telephony services

Level 1 Administrative
  • Limited clinical applications

  • Paper-based systems

  • Analogue voice communications