King’s College Hospital achieves HIMSS INFRAM stage six

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised for outstanding digital maturity following an assessment by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

HIMSS is a not-for-profit global advisor, which takes best practice from across the world to benchmark its stages zero to seven, with seven being seen as a global exemplar.

The trust’s IT team achieved HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM) stage six, reflecting its use of technology, data and digital culture to support patient care.

Professor Clive Kay, chief executive at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, who will retire in November, said: “This is a well-deserved recognition of many years of serious hard work by the team here at King’s.

“I am consistently impressed by the dedication and commitment shown by our IT team, and by the extraordinary efforts that have gone into improving our digital capability to support all of our teams to deliver the best possible care to our patients.

“I am incredibly proud of this recognition of the outstanding digital support here at King’s, and I am incredibly grateful to all the team members involved in getting us to this impressive position.”

Achieving INFRAM stage six places the trust among a select group of hospitals across Europe that have reached this level of digital maturity.

The validation highlights the organisation’s ability to maintain robust, secure and reliable IT systems that support their clinical operations.

During the assessment, HIMSS highlighted two major digital integration projects in the emergency department at King’s College Hospital: London Ambulance Service integration, which allows vital patient information to arrive ahead of the ambulance, and digital triage, which supports quicker assessment of patients when they arrive.

HIMSS also praised the benefits being delivered through the digital secure patient portal MyChart, supplied by Epic, and the trust’s strong cyber security and digital resilience plans.

The validation process also highlighted the trust’s strong leadership and clear commitment to using digital infrastructure as a foundation for clinical transformation.

Bansi Shah, digital health strategist at HIMSS, who led the validation, said: “The strength of leadership across the organisation was apparent throughout the review.

“The executive team has demonstrated a clear and sustained commitment to investing in digital infrastructure and technology as a core enabler of clinical transformation.”

King’s follows Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, which achieved HIMSS stage six validations for INFRAM and Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) in March 2026, having previously received stage six validation for Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity (AMAM) in 2024.

Meanwhile, Jersey General Hospital told Digital Health News that Jersey General Hospital is aiming to achieve HIMSS EMRAM level six by mid-2026.