What are some pitfalls in selecting an EHR How do you evalua

What are some pitfalls in selecting an EHR? How do you evaluate vendor proposals? Should information provided by vendors be accepted at face value? Why or why not? Discuss whether the product or the implement process is more important to success.

Solution

1] EHR is \"electronic health records approach\".

PITFALLS IN SELECTING EHR:

1. Rushing Implementation: before implementation analysis to review data for trends and for developing and implementing an action is necessary to provide satisfaction to all users.

2. The Meaningful Use Trap: Quality careand satisfaction should be the priority rather than cost.

3. Spending Too Much or Too Little Time on Data Entry : focus on the priority problems of care to make timely well informed clinical decisions.

4. Not Buying a Physician-Friendly EHR Solution: opinions of physician and nurse should be taken in account.

5. Assuming that Higher Price Means Higher Quality: Thouroughly evaluate EHR sloution

EVALUATION OF VENDOR PROPOSALS

Narrow the Field: start with the Certified HIT Product List (CHPL) which provides the authoritative, comprehensive listing of certified EHRs and EHR modules that have been tested and certified under the Temporary Certification Program maintained by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Understanding the EHR certification process and whether the vendors are offering certified EHRs will help to narrow the field of available vendors.

3] vendors provide littel information on their website therefore face to face meet is necessary.

We followed a typical iterative process of open coding, consensus building, . This strategy highlighted trends in vendor website information content and delivery and facilitated an investigation of the differences between primary and acute care vendor websites.Face value alone cannot determine the EHR,s development. Therefore references and interview/ disscussion can help to make evidence based decision.