Electronic Health Record (EHR) consists of a multi-disciplinary approach to preparing new systems, ensuring privacy and complying with security, designing practice workflows, training the care team and managing the process of adoption (Hodgkins, n.d.). A successful EHR implementation helps the practice in adapting to new systems with ease, which will benefit the physicians, staff and the patients. Implementation of the EHR is a complex activity and requires the skills of project management. The project manager has the skills that are required in dealing with the vendors which allow the stakeholders to stay focused on their timelines. Aside from dealing with the vendors the skills of a project manager include ensuring that schedules and budgets, and project objectives are on track as well as managing the day to day issues (Hodgkins, n.d.).
How Can The Selection Of Committee Members With Certain Technological Skills Enhance The EHR Adoption Process?
Committee members to the EHR adoption process who possess technological skills ensure that the right EHR system is selected (Hodgkins, n.d.). These members should be true end users who are conversant with the technological advancements of the present. This ensures that the health organization does not change the EHR or update it too soon after its adoption. Through their technological skills, they will be able to offer differing perspectives on the application of the EHR from where the most suitable up-to-date system will be chosen.
What Are The Roles Of Some Of The Participants In The Implementation Of The EHR?
The participants in the process of EHR implementation play various roles including implementing the new EHR system into the physician practice, transferring the selected data into the new EHR for launching purposes, determining whether to launch the system incrementally of immediately (Hodgkins, n.d.). The participants also choose the best hardware that will help the EHR to meet both the needs of the physicians and the patients as well as identifying the financing means with which to purchase the EHR.
References
HealthIT.gov. (n.d.). Who should be on the electronic health record selection committee? | FAQs | Providers & Professionals | HealthIT.gov. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/faqs/who-should-be-electronic-health-record-selection-committee
Hodgkins, M. (n.d.). Electronic Health Record (EHR) Implementation | STEPS Forward. Retrieved from https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/ehr-implementation#section-introduction
