The key to successfully adopting a new HIT system is teaching people to use the system in the context of their work, says one expert. “One of the mistakes we commonly see in traditional training sessions is that the lessons are focused on the system’s functionality, rather than how the system will help users in
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During her career as a nurse and then as a hospital CIO, Karen Hollingsworth, RN, MS, CPHIMS dealt with her share of technology implementations and the challenges of integrating those new technologies into patient care. Now as an associate partner with Michigan-based Santa Rosa Consulting, she spends most of her time shring her expertise with
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The key to guaranteeing CPOE implementation and adoption success is to secure your hospital’s senior leadership is early and full commitment to the project, even before launching a physician engagement effort, according to leaders at FL-based Adventist Health System (AHS). The organization recently completed two successful CPOE pilots and plans to complete the CPOE rollout
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A few short weeks after the initial EHR go-live at Southwest General Health Center, the hospital’s vice president and CIO offers this insight: “The most important thing to ensure implementation success is to get the clinicians involved early on. And if you can swing it, hire a dedicated project manager who is able to concentrate
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Whether it’s implementing EMR, CPOE, eMAR, or any other type of new technology, there are bound to be bumps in the road. As we hear from CIOs, CMIOs, practice managers, and CEOs across the country, change is hard, especially for those on the front lines who have established ways of doing things. Any new technology
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When determining whether unsecured personal health information (PHI) has been breached at your organization, it is important to be aware of and understand how the exceptions to HITECH can be applied, perhaps saving you time and resources, according to Barry Herrin, an attorney with Smith Moore Leatherwood in Atlanta. During a recent firm-sponsored webinar, Herrin
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James Keel III, MD and Arlo Jennings, Ph.D., Mission Hospital’s CIO, co-authored a white paper entitled, “A Closer Look at Architecting CPOE,” which provides an in-depth look at how Mission Hospital achieved its successful go-live. The paper can be found at http://www.nchica.org/Resources/A%20Closer%20Look%20at%20Architecting%20CPOE%20-%20Feb%202009.pdf. The recommendations below are excerpted from that white paper: • Involve the medical
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Achieving 100 percent CPOE adoption by physicians takes a deliberate, step-by-step approach, according to James Keel III, MD, chief medical officer at Asheville, NC-based Mission Hospital. “You don’t just start off one day and decide to launch CPOE,” he tells Inside Healthcare Computing. “You have to make sure the building blocks are in place and
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As one of the nation’s first community health centers to fully transition to an EHR from paper-based charts, Othello, WA-based Columbia Basin Health Association (CBHA) used a successful EHR adoption strategy based on financial incentives to users, an intensive training program, clinician involvement throughout the process, and a healthy dose of peer pressure. “We were
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With all the attention being paid to EHRs and meaningful use, it’s equally important for hospitals to keep other key priorities firmly in sight. That’s the advice from Jackie Lucas, vice president and CIO of Louisville, KY- based Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. (BHS). “There are so many changes that are going to occur, particularly on
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