Advanced Clinical Systems Implementation Project Management
Advanced Clinical Systems – those systems that go beyond the standard Core Clinical Systems of Lab, Radiology and Pharmacy – are truly the next great challenge in healthcare IT. Their importance is underscored by the American Recovery and Re-investment Act’s funding for electronic medical record (EMR) systems. The unfortunate and unintended result of the funding – and the resulting demand for new implementations – is a massive disconnect between a hospital’s expectations for implementation and the vendor’s standard implementation offering.
Here’s how QHR can help.
For facilities planning to implement a new ACS, QHR’s consultants work alongside your staff and the vendor’s implementation resources to ensure a superior outcome when the system goes “live.” This is accomplished as we drive work-flow enhancement and process automation into the system implementation plan and final acceptance criteria.
- Ideally, prior to the final signing of the vendor contract, QHR assists your facility in developing a unique Final Acceptance Criteria document that focuses on proper departmental work-fl ow and optimizing the internal system automation routines available.
- We also provide high-level project management of all implementation activity.
- In addition, we can provide vendorspecific technical resources to create custom screens; build automation macros; and perform table build activity. These, in turn, can result in:
- Enhanced user-defi ned screens;
- Automation of otherwise manual tasks;
- Streamlined work-fl ow within the system;
- Enhanced quality reporting capabilities; and
- Inter-departmental data sharing.
Whether you have an existing ACS or are planning for a new ACS, QHR helps ensure you get a system that meets your goals for productivity and ROI, while supporting physician and staff satisfaction.
