It has been suggested that the key to physician adoption is

It has been suggested that the key to physician adoption is physician engagement. How can health care organizations engage clinical leadership in developing electronic health records?

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Solution

Clinical leadership is an explicit force for improving outcomes for patients. The role of the clinician is defined as “healer, leader, and partner”. Improvements happened because clinicians (most notably doctors) played an integral part in shaping clinical services. This expanded role did not come about through one-off projects; nor were changes in formal job descriptions the primary driving force. Rather, what changed for clinicians was their professional identity and sense of accountability. All staff, whether clinicians or not, came to share a common aim: delivering excellent care efficiently. Doctors collaborated with administrators on important clinical decisions—such as how to expand or reconfigure services—in full knowledge of the trade-offs and resource implications.

Because of the unique relationship between hospitals and its physicians, getting physicians to accept and utilize new technology is often a challenge. Yet, their cooperation is essential to success. Communication and transparency will go a long way in making the case for new technology, as does trust. Electronic health records will change the way in which all physicians practice, so leaders must involve them from the beginning, obtain their ongoing input and feedback, and incorporate their views and preferences into new workflow processes. Physicians have maximum impact on people in healthcare system thus if they can spearhead the activity of developing electronic health records then they it will have greater meaning and importance. It also give benefits to the clinicians as they don’t have to juggle around paper documents to find the last records about patient but can access it through one click.

References:

“when clinicians lead” on www.mckinesy.com

\"Implementation - EHR\" on http://labinteroperabilitycollaborative.org/