EHR Implementation in Community Care: Benefits and Training Analysis

This essay explores the implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in a community care setting. It addresses the benefits of transitioning from paper-based records to EHR, focusing on improvements in patient data management, medication error reduction, and overall care process efficiency. The essay also emphasizes the importance of understanding the training and educational needs of physicians and nursing professionals during the EHR implementation process. Key questions are proposed to gather insights from healthcare professionals regarding the benefits they anticipate from EHR, the type of training they require, and the troubleshooting strategies they would employ. The analysis highlights the necessity of setting SMART goals, collecting employee feedback, and making necessary changes during the implementation phase to ensure a smooth and effective transition to the EHR system.

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Electronic health record system (EHR) is the record of patient’s medical reports in which
electronically patient’s data, their demographics, medications, progressive notes and special
requirement of the patient is recorded (Yoo, Hwang & Jheon, 2016). As an information system
manager of the community care I would ask few semi structured questions to the physicians and
nursing professionals so that their perspective on the topic could be understood. The questions
will be as follows:
1. What do you think would be the benefit of implementing electronic health record
system in the place of paper based records and how it would benefit your care
process?
2. Do you require any special training or educational session for implementing
electronic health record in this care facility and how many sessions would be required
by you?
These are important questions that need to be asked to the nursing and healthcare
professionals. While transitioning from the paper based healthcare record system to electronic
record system, the organization need to develop SMART goals and the entire organization
including the employees should be provided with all these goals (Imison et al., 2016). This
should be done so that the employees and their valuable feedback could be collected and
important changes in the implementation of EHR could be achieved (Gheorghiu & Hagens,
2016). This would help the organization to understand the errors that occur due to the usage of
paper based healthcare record system and the rate of medication error registered in the process so
that they can compare it with the EHR implementation and could assess the benefits it would
bring in the care facility (Yoo, Hwang & Jheon, 2016).

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Besides that, the second question would be asked to the healthcare professional so that
the facility could understand the type of training and educational process they would require for
conducting EHR system in the care facility and understand the type of difficulties they might
face (Jamoom et al., 2016). Further, their trouble shooting strategies should also be understood
through the process of interview and questionnaire as the professionals should understand the
type of troubles they might face in the process and the strategies they could use to make the
process less prone to errors. Hence, these two questions would be asked to the professionals
(Imison et al., 2016).

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