Electronic Health Records: Strategies for Implementation

Softbound Book
Size: 8.5" x 11"
ISBN 1578395178
978-1578395170
HCPro / Opus Communications
December 2004
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Here's solid advice to help you implement your electronic health records system.

Healthcare organizations, practices and hospitals across the country continue to move away from paper-based medical records to electronic health records. With this book, you can benefit from their experiences.

The benefits of electronic health records (EHR) are as obvious as they are significant: better quality of care, increased patient safety, more efficient information processing, and reduced costs of healthcare delivery. With these benefits come real challenges, starting with the cost, and branching out to include staff training, and changes to the organization's culture and work processes. It's an enormous undertaking.

Electronic Health Records: Strategies for Implementation is your guide to moving from the paper to the electronic record. You'll learn how to implement EHR, from writing your plan and preparing the infrastructure for the new system, to developing strategies and activities to train your staff. In short, this book will help you make sound EHR-related decisions for your facility. It also:

Explains the financial implications of EHR
Outlines the vendor selection process
Provides policies and procedures for user manual development

Electronic Health Records provides guidance on the unique aspects of EHR implementation, including installing and testing your system, training staff, and learning how to capture data to test the system's interoperability, data comparability, data quality, and knowledge representation. You will also find out how to:

Promote project planning discipline and provide detailed project planning assistance
Identify unique aspects of your infrastructure's preparedness as you implement an EHR
Define how you will institute workflow redesign and process changes to achieve EHR benefits
Develop a program in which every member of the staff-from clinicians, administration, and operations-will work effectively.
Emphasize to others the importance of testing, training, benefits realization and lessons learned.

Because paper records are the accepted method for tracing patient care, breaking with tradition can be a monumental feat. Electronic Health Records is an investment in that process. It serves as your guide to taking control and bringing your organization to a new, exciting level in managing health information.

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, nursing management, finance, quality/patient safety, infection control, workplace safety and regulatory compliance.

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