Optimizing EMR Success

Optimizing EMR Success

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Optimizing EMR Success

In the recent past, Electronic Medical records (EMR) has proofed to be beneficial both to the patients and their attendance. The health records have become more efficient and reliable thus increasing its efficiency. The patents who come to be served at the health facility can view their records any time they want . This is important for them as they can keep check on their health records any time. It is by no doubt very important to implement it as resolved by the medical facility’s management (Gelijns & Dawkins, 1994).

The older physicians who need to adopt this method need to be taught how to use this relatively new technology and its importance as seen in (Girosi, & Meili, 2005). This is the only means that they will get to know about it. Though most of them are reluctant to adopting this relatively new technology, after undergoing some just in time learning, some of them will change their view of this EMR technology and adopt it.

Time will also enable them make their own judgments and adopt it. As they keep seeing others how they use and how efficient they are, they will fall for it and use them thus. This is very important since as they learn and interact how to use EMR, they will get to learn more. It can be clearly noted in (Butler, 2011).Time is a very important factor.

Have those who are willing to use it use it. The people who are not willing will work with them and as time goes by, they know its importance and finally adopt it. This might not offer the best solution but at the end of it all, they will have used it and thus it’s success. Having the older and the younger work in the same work station will increase interaction thus final adoption by the older (Wolf, 2011).

Set a time frame by which the facility will fully adopt and all the physicians must have had the required knowledge. This can be done by engaging the top management to enforce it when the set time frame is met. Those reluctant will be forced to adopt it .It’s noted by (Gelijns & Dawkins, 1994) as a mandatory when there are no options in any organization.

References

Butler, A. (2011). Health care information technology the hardware and software focus: critical factors for EMR implementation (2nd ed.). S.l: Healthcare Information Technology Stimulus Center.

Gelijns, A., & Dawkins, H. V. (1994). Adopting new medical technology. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Girosi, F., & Meili, R. (2005). Extrapolating evidence of health information technology savings and costs. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Health.

Wolf, J. A. (2011). Organization development in healthcare conversations on research and strategies. Bingley: Emerald Group.