Valuable Resources
Lessons Learned In Community HospitalsThis valuable PowerPoint presentation is for your use. Review with your implementation team and present to your staff. Follow this link.
A National Web Conference on the First Consulting Group Inpatient and Ambulatory CPOE Assessment Tool
If you are involved in implementing and maintaining a CPOE system and are seeking guidance on how to determine how effective your system implementation is, do not miss this opportunity to learn about the First Consulting Group Inpatient and Ambulatory CPOE Assessment Tool.
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Rules of Engagement: Proven paths for instilling, then installing a CPOE approach that works
Computerized Provider Order Entry holds the potential for real gains in quality of care, safety and efficiency. But despite documented benefits, less than 5 percent of U.S. hospitals have adopted it, and of those hospitals, only 20 percent have more than half of their physicians entering orders electronically. While cost poses a tangible barrier to entry, the scope and complexity of managing organizational change brought about by implementing IT systems can challenge the most seasoned management teams. Leading healthcare institutions have reaped the promise of better, more effective care processes after successfully navigating the implementation process, but some executives have taken arrows in the back during attempts to take the lead on this challenge. These experiences and the lessons learned from them are invaluable to care-delivery systems.
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (www.nahit.org) in creating Rules of Engagement: Proven paths for instilling, then installing a CPOE approach that works, gathered the hard-won insights and experiences of pioneering hospitals and other experts to walk senior executives through the myriad decisions and actions that they and their teams must make to successfully implement a CPOE system. It begins with such matters as how to build internal project teams and conduct organizational assessments as well as how to select a vendor and when and how to pick an IT consulting partner. It devotes chapters to managing cultural change, redesigning workflows, developing training and technical support and, of course, implementing the technology.
The book’s practical and thorough approach will help providers lead and manage change in their organizations, and will make it much easier and less risky for hospital senior executives to implement CPOE and other clinical IT systems.
Order your copy at www.nahit.org.