New White Paper: How to Justify, Architect, Execute, and Sustain a Successful EHR Program
Posted by Jennifer Clement on Wed, Feb 15, 2012
More cuts are coming to hospitals – and they’ll increasingly be depending on post-acute providers to prevent penalties through better care coordination that results in reduced readmissions.
The business case is straightforward:
- 50-80% drop in medication errors
- 8-10% justifiably higher case-mix scores
- Higher compliance and lower risk with accurate data capture at or near the point of care
- Efficiency gains with FTE upside
- Outcomes reports on which your census depend
It's all about outcomes. Those that have their EHR house in order will win census from hospitals; those that don’t will watch it dwindle. As a fully-digital provider, you’ll have an attractive edge as you audition for a starring role with hospitals.
In the new outcomes-driven world of healthcare, the EHR is mission critical and providers across the country must rapidly embrace it for competitive survival. You must be ready to produce outcomes reports to win their business, and the EHR is the essential backbone for creating your outcomes reports. In this new white paper you’ll get simple steps to get started with the EHR:
- Step 1: Create your plan and business case
- Step 2: Prepare your team for change that sticks
- Step 3: Execute using a step by step roadmap
- Step 4: Sustain momentum and maximize ROI over time
- Step 5: Get connected to partners, hospitals
You’ve heard it before, but the importance of leadership with your EHR program cannot be underestimated. You’ll need to be involved early and hands-on. What the staff sees they will replicate. You must constantly sell the vision, the benefits, and be a champion for change like never before.
Need help getting started? Link to the full white paper from American HealthTech: EHR: from 0 to 60 mph in 5 Steps - How to Justify, Architect, Execute, and Sustain a Successful EHR Program.