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One of the primary areas of focus with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is promotion and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). An EHR provides electronic medical and behavioral health information about an individual patient that is used to plan, coordinate and document health care services. Providers must demonstrate that they meet "meaningful use" criteria in order to benefit from stimulus incentives.  Meaningful use will involve implementation of e-prescribing, interoperability and exchange of health information, quality and outcomes reporting.

Jimenez Consulting Solutions' team can help your organization with all aspects of electronic health records - from planning through implementation to optimization.  Click here to learn more.

Phase I: Prepare Strategy

• Prepare Business Case
• Develop Business and Clinical Imperatives
• Create Value Proposition
• Evaluate Organizational Readiness
• Assess Existing Technologies
• Review Clinical Processes
• Define Future State
• Analyze data available for benchmarking
• Establish Targets and Timing

Phase 2: Develop Plan

• Evaluate and Select Solutions
• Establish Program for Clinician Engagement: Prepare Implementation Plan
• Develop Communication Plans
• Plan Integration

Phase 3: Build Solutions

• Develop Future Workflows
• Create Clinical Documentation Forms and Order Sets
• Revise Procedures
• Configure System
• Install Infrastructure
• Establish Security
• Conduct Testing (unit, integrated)

Phase 4: Implement

• Train
• Rehearse
• Cutover
• Refine
• Sustain

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Clinician Engagement

Physicians and clinicians will embrace an EHR more readily if it:

• Provides access to clinical information to support decision making
• Is accessible anytime and anywhere (home, office)
• Offers tangible benefits in the areas of safety and clinical quality
• Supports custom order sets
• Integrates with other tools physicians use
• Performs reliably and is available so that "planned or unplanned" downtimes do not interrupt clinical care