EHR Project Implementation

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EHR Project Implementation
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Institution Affiliate

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Health Informatics
Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation is an all-inclusive set of steps and
strategies applied by healthcare organizations when formulating and implementing the
acceptance of an electronic-based healthcare scheme. It normally varies and depends on the
expectations that the organization has to satisfy its needs. (Rouse, 2012). The EHR contains a
patient’s medical records. Healthcare information can be controlled by sanctioned personnel in a
digital format which is able to being shared with other medical staffs across more other
healthcare centers. This is because EHRs are assembled to share information or statistics with
other health care providers and organizations. (Boonstra, Versluis, & J Vos, 2014).
Members of the EHR Implementation Team
EHR team can either make or break the implementation. It is crucial for the team to
possess different traits and idealism. For these members to ensure that the implementation
process runs efficiently they should have the following traits. They should have different
perspectives about the project implementation role in the country. The members should each be
skilled and devote their time to the EHR implementation; they ought to also be positively minded
on the role the process will play. The team is made up of fourteen members, they include the
following: the EHR Team Leader, EHR Implementation Manager, Physician Champion, Nurse
Leader, Medical Assistant Lead, Scheduler Lead, Registration Staff Lead, Laboratory Staff Lead,
Information Technology Lead, EHR Builder, Workflow Redesign Lead and the
Super-User/Training Lead. (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, Health care information systems : a practical
approach for health care management, 2017).

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Roles of the team stakeholders in EHR project implementation
EHR project or team leader works closely with the key organizational stakeholders and
tends to create, supervise and execute the project implementation. He or she is supposed to
coordinate and direct the project. The EHR leader is supposed to make final decisions regarding
the implementation of the project. He or she also appoints the implementation manager by
assigning the implementation of the project to a stakeholder who is trustworthy and has
experience in project implementation experience. He or she is supposed to assign other
individuals with tasks and responsibilities. Also, to coordinate contract acquisition and
negotiation. The project leader is also supposed to head the meetings held by the project
implementation team and also develop project plans and timelines for the completion of the
project allocated. (Green, 2018).
EHR Implementation manager role in the team is to monitor the work plan to be carried
out and make sure that everything runs as per stated in the schedule of the project. The manager
is supposed to make sure that everything required during the course of the work is readily
available for the other members to access to avoid any delay in the running of the project.
(Hodgkins, 2015).
Physician Champion is supposed to implement and promote changes that benefit
physicians. The changes may include an improvement in new products and services or even in
procedures. (Norman, Nola, Moen, Provost, & Nolan, 2013). The Champion tends to research
and analyze data about why he or she implemented the change in order to support the project.
The champion after supporting and showing why it is necessary for the revolution he or she is
supposed to teach and influence other colleagues the way the modification is supposed to be used
or implemented. The Champion may also be required to design the new system he or she has