EMR Implementation Guidance
Improved patient safety. Enhanced communication. More patient- and physician-friendly service. Better clinical
outcomes. Faster, more accurate billing. There are many excellent reasons to go paperless. But if it were easy,
all hospitals would already be there. Many, in fact, have failed to achieve a fully functioning electronic medical
record, even after pouring multi-million dollar investments into the effort. Why? They didn’t see the big picture.
QHR’s consultants look beyond clinical and IT needs, taking a hospital-wide approach.
Via conference calls and an on-site visit, QHR’s Information Technology and Health Information Management
experts work together to assess your hospital’s:
■ Technical infrastructure
■ Software
■ Leadership
■ Culture
■ Knowledge
■ Resources
Their objective, vendor-independent analysis quantifies your readiness to migrate from paper to electronic
records, identifies potential roadblocks and plans your path around them. Your report:
■ Reviews your IT applications and evaluates your
IT infrastructure
■ Compares your current status to best practice
facility readiness checklists
■ Addresses specific short term issues
■ Determines the IT tools and support you’ll need
■ Pinpoints business procedures and workflows
impacted, to minimize points of failure during
implementation | ■ Identifies regulatory requirements involved
■ Uses a visual IT model to demonstrate findings
and areas for improved functional automation
■ Provides a detailed management action plan,
outlining specific steps to achieve necessary objectives |
For more information on QHR IT Services, contact:
Nancy Wilcenski, IT Practice Leader, 800-233-1470 ext. 4536.
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