P30 EMR implementation in rheumatology

EMR Implementation: Lessons Learned from ERP

The adoption of electronic medical records is a strategy for improving health care in the United States, and there are national efforts to provide funding for the initial purchase of EMR systems. The use of IT in making clinical health care more efficient and effective is well known. But recent articles in the healthcare domain indicate that 20 to 30 % of electronic medical record (EMR) systems...

Best Practices in EMR Implementation: A Systematic Review

As experience with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) implementations increases, new knowledge is gained on how to make these implementations more successful. Recently, several new conceptual frameworks described in the literature provide a richer understanding of what makes an EMR implementation successful. Using the systematic review process, we attempt to integrate the various frameworks into a...

EMR Implementation: Benefits of Getting Staff Trained on the Basics

Successful physician training program for large scale EMR implementation.

End-user training is an essential element of electronic medical record (EMR) implementation and frequently suffers from minimal institutional investment. In addition, discussion of successful EMR training programs for physicians is limited in the literature. The authors describe a successful physician-training program at Stanford Children's Health as part of a large scale EMR implementation. Ev...

Electronic Medical Records ( EMR ) : Issues and Implementation Perspectives

For many years the electronic medical record has been the holy grail of hospital system integration. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in attempts to develop effective electronic medical records (EMR) to provide clinical care for patients. The advantages of an EMR are listed as reducing error, streamlining care, and allowing multiple people to provide simultaneous care. Unfortunat...