The HIM Best Practices Guide to Major EHR Change

Hospitals and health systems continue to recognize the importance of collaborative cross-functional teamwork, especially during EHR and other major IT system changes.

Your EHR is a significant enterprise investment, and its long-term success must be ensured. End-user adoption and clinical satisfaction begins with access to accurate data on day one.

This guidebook shares e4health’s proven best practices for IT system implementations. From pre-planning to team empowerment, and strategies to protect clinical data integrity, our guide empowers your organization to deliver better healthcare outcomes.

And since every new system is a learning experience, you’ll also discover a valuable list of ten common mistakes made during system transitions with proven tips to avoid problems and resolve issues. This includes advice for prioritizing responsibilities, safeguarding KPIs, and properly balancing patient information retention obligations with physician access to clinical data.

IT, health information (HI), and operational teams must work collaboratively to ensure data integrity during major system change. Specific takeaways in this best practices guide include:

  • How cross-functional teams deliver better results
  • Power of strategic planning
  • Specific insights for revenue cycle transitions
  • Mistakes made and lessons learned
  • Role of emerging technology
  • Smart data migration and validation

 

Clinical data excellence is a journey. It requires commitment, diligence, and experience. Download e4health’s best practices guide to preserve data integrity during EHR, revenue cycle, and other major system migrations.