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EMR Implementation Guidelines and Useful Documents
This is a discussion where you can post useful documents for individuals looking to implement an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system in a hospital or ambulatory care setting. If you are going to add a resource please place its reference and a brief description about it and how it should be used.
The objective of this discussion is for EMRs in clinical settings, for other resources such as mobile systems or national implementations, you can create another discussion.
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
These are the guidelines for implementing EMRs in Kenya. They include a complete checklist of requirements for implementation, minimum EMR functionalities, information exchange via HL7, and governance.
Attached resource:
Source: Ministry of Health, Kenya
Keywords: EMR, EMR implementation, General Resources, Software
1:22 PM, 10 Jun 2011 | Permalink
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
Notes from the 2008 Meeting for Hospital and Health System Executives which has useful data and graphs about the benefits and pitfalls of implementing EMRs including lives and money saved in Australia, critical factors for IT success, useful tips on how to create a system
Attached resource:
Source: Council of International Hospitals
Keywords: EMR, EMR implementation, General Resources, Software
1:39 PM, 10 Jun 2011 | Permalink
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
A good paper on the benefits, barriers, and steps for successfully implementing an ambulatory EMR. This is US based, but has generalizable lessons learned.
Lorenzi NM, Kouroubali A, Detmer DE, Bloomrosen M. How to successfully select and implement electronic health records (EHR) in small ambulatory practice settings. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2009;9:15.
Attached resource:
Source: Vanderbilt University
Keywords: EMR, EMR implementation, General Resources, Software
3:12 PM, 10 Jun 2011 | Permalink
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
A systematic review of clinical information system implementations that has good tables on the outcomes measured for implementations and risk factors for implementations.
Gruber D, Cummings GG, LeBlanc L, Smith DL. Factors influencing outcomes of clinical information systems implementation: a systematic review. Comput Inform Nurs 2009;27(3):151-63; quiz 164-5.
Attached resource:
Source: University of Alberta
Keywords: EMR, EMR implementation, General Resources, Software
3:29 PM, 10 Jun 2011 | Permalink
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
This reports is for health care leaders who want to learn about open source software and how it may help health care overcome problems of incompatible IT systems. It concludes that open source is increasingly likely to become the dominant model for creating software to improve the quality of care in a cost-effective way.
California Healthcare Foundation. Open-Source EHR Systems for Ambulatory Care: A Market Assessment. Oakland, CA, 2008.
Attached resource:
Link leads to: http://www.chcf.org/~/media/Files/PDF/O/PDF%20OpenSourceEHRSystemsExecSummary.pdf
Source: California HealthCare Foundation
Keywords: EMR, EMR implementation, General Resources, Software
3:47 PM, 10 Jun 2011 | Permalink