Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption can be challenging for many hospitals. To address this challenge - Intel Corporation, HIMSS Analytics USA/Europe and Innovation Value Institute have researched a management approach called Healthcare IT Maturity Model (HIT-MM). This approach better equips a hospital to strategize, implement and run electronic medical record (EMR) and general IT services. It involves the joint tracking of EMR adoption levels and maturity of IT capabilities. This allows a hospital to identify the next step in EMR adoption, together with the necessary IT capabilities to plan, implement and run those EMR services. Results highlight specific IT capabilities are of paramount importance for hospitals to achieve and effectively run higher levels of EMR adoption.