EHR Systems: Vendor Selection and Data Management in Healthcare

This report examines the process of selecting vendors for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, focusing on the crucial steps involved in assessing the needs of a healthcare system and managing data. It highlights the importance of creating a Request for Information (RFI) to gather necessary details from potential vendors. The report outlines the advantages of EHR systems, such as streamlined record-keeping, reduced errors, improved accessibility to patient information, and cost savings. It emphasizes how EHRs can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery by providing accessible and accurate patient data, ultimately improving patient care. The report also references several scholarly articles to support the claims and provide a comprehensive overview of EHR implementation.

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The healthcare system is preparing to select a company which will act as an outsource vendor
needed for this project. The different types of information the healthcare system must provide
to and collect from the vendor are to assess the EHR needs of the hospital; to set the goals of
EHR that should be specific, that can be measured, must be relevant and limited within time,
to make the list of deal breakers and to decide where the EHR data will reside for example in
a vendor server or in a cloud storage. The healthcare system must develop a request for
information (RFI) for soliciting the information from the vendors (Nguyen, Bellucci, &
Nguyen, 2014).
The potential benefits of switching to the EHR system in the healthcare system are it will be
hassle free as the use of the papers for keeping the records will be reduced. The chances of
missing the records of the patient’s are diminished. The EHRs helps in the easy access to the
entire medical history of the patient. The record is available at any time of the day and do not
require any extra space store it. It also helped in saving the money by reducing the
maintaining the records in the computer system and are accessible to different staffs at the
same time but at different locations (Boonstra, Versluis & Vos, 2014).

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References
Boonstra, A., Versluis, A., & Vos, J. F. (2014). Implementing electronic health records in
hospitals: a systematic literature review. BMC health services research, 14(1), 370.
Nguyen, L., Bellucci, E., & Nguyen, L. T. (2014). Electronic health records implementation:
an evaluation of information system impact and contingency factors. International
journal of medical informatics, 83(11), 779-796.