Question

The adoption of Health Information Technology, such as EHR is revolutionizing the healthcare delivery as it helps avoid many preventable medical errors and the health record can be accessed anytime from anywhere and anytime by the authorized users. However, some providers still argue that the time spent on entering the information in the EHR could be spent with the patient while entering and viewing the health information on the computers makes the patients feel that they are are not given personal attention that used to be during the paper medical record era.

As Project Manager of EHR implementation, how would you convince the providers (Clinicians) that their this assumption is untrue and that it actually adds to the value of healthcare delivery.

Answer 1

Electronic health record ,one of the advanced technology development to provide patient care in an most accurate way.

The project manager can convince the clinicians in the following way

• Prevent medical error
• physical presence is not required
• can handle multiple patients
• Appropriate training to be provided to the clinicians and all medical staff
• Regular assessment and coordination with vendor will be provided
• it is time saving
• Medical errors can be minimised
• Tracking the treatment anywhere, anytime
• Data can be transferred from one organization to another under supervision and cyber secured.