Question

You are the practice manager of a large (100) physician cardiology group, and they have decided it is time to move to a new Electronic Health Record (EHR). Explain how you would address this situation using the following information below.

• 1.What key features should you be looking for, and how will you integrate this into the practice?
• 2. Keeping in mind the objections the physicians might throw at you during the monthly practice meeting, create a pitch to the managing partners for the system you think would work best for the practice. Assuming the partners approve, what is your plan to implement the new system?
• 3. Provide timelines, deliverables, and who is responsible for what step, as well as a staff training plan.

Answer 1

electronic health record:

1. key features are

• strong password
• highly secured firewall security
• confidentiality of the information
• secured storage system for computers
• limited access for users
• end to end message encryption

2. plan to implement the system:

• set an objective for the implementation process
• set a budget for the overall plan
• implement procurement and purchase system for this plan
• conduct meetings with target groups
• select the team for ehr
• create a selected group for training the professionals in every departments
• create password and login for every user
• check on the service
• collect feedbacks from the consumers
• reassess and monitor for continuous improvement

3.

• create a team who will be responsible for training the staff
• create a schedule with date, time and topic of training
• distribute and discuss the training plan with the team
• each member has to be assigned staff for training in schedules
• take feedback from the trainer and trainee
• reevaluate after a week to know the effectiveness