18 health systems earn CHIME’s top digital honor

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has recognized 18 U.S. health systems for reaching the highest level of digital health maturity in its 2025 Digital Health Most Wired survey.

The Level 10 designation, awarded to fewer than two percent of participants, marks the top benchmark in CHIME’s global assessment of how technology is used to deliver safer, more efficient, and more connected care.

New scoring reflects a changing industry

This year, CHIME overhauled the survey’s scoring model to reflect what digital excellence looks like in 2025. The updated framework expands beyond traditional IT metrics to include artificial intelligence, virtual care, digital pathology, cybersecurity, and even climate resilience.

The shift aims to measure how technology supports both patient outcomes and organizational resilience—a recognition that health systems face new pressures from automation, cyberthreats, and environmental risks.

“This year’s survey marks an important milestone in how we measure and understand digital maturity across healthcare,” said Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME in the release. “As the industry evolves, we recognize the urgent need for a more precise, equitable, and actionable framework—one that not only captures where health systems stand today but illuminates a clear path forward. This year’s enhanced scope and methodology empower digital health leaders with deeper, data-driven insights to guide strategic investment, measure progress and value with precision, and accelerate transformation in care delivery.”

The redesign also accounts for organizational scale. Smaller hospitals and large academic medical centers are now assessed in context—an effort to create fairer comparisons across a diverse field.

How hospitals are measured

More than 50,000 providers worldwide took part in this year’s survey, which examines nine core areas of digital performance:

• Infrastructure
• Security
• Administration
• Supply chain
• Analytics and data management
• Interoperability and population health
• Patient engagement
• Innovation
• Clinical quality and safety

Organizations that reached Level 10 demonstrated advanced capabilities in all categories, using data to inform clinical decisions, streamline operations, and strengthen digital trust.

The 2025 Level 10 honorees

• AdventHealth (FL)
• Baptist Health System (Jacksonville, FL)
• Bon Secours Mercy Health (OH)
• El Camino Health (CA)
• Geisinger Health (PA)
• MultiCare Health System (WA)
• Northeast Georgia Health System (GA)
• NYU Langone Health (NY)
• Parkview Health (IN)
• Southcoast Health System (MA)
• Stanford Health Care (CA)
• The MetroHealth System (OH)
• UCHealth (CO)
• UNC Health (NC)
• University Health (TX)
• University of Utah Health (UT)
• Virtua Health (NJ)
• West Virginia University Health System (WV)

See full list of Level 7 – 10 honorees in acute, ambulatory, and long-term post-acute care.

A signal of what’s next

While the Level 10 award recognizes current achievement, CHIME’s broader goal is to help hospitals benchmark progress as digital transformation accelerates.

In many organizations, digital maturity has moved from a technology department concern to a system-wide strategy. This year’s winners reflect that shift: hospitals that have integrated analytics, AI, and interoperability into the clinical and operational fabric of their work.

CHIME will formally recognize the 2025 Level 10 honorees on November 11, 2025, during its Fall Forum in San Antonio, Texas.

For healthcare leaders, the results highlight where digital progress is happening fastest—and how technology investments are reshaping what it means to deliver care in a connected world.