Overview
Implementing an EMR system today requires significant planning to ensure that the technology is implemented properly, and that your staff supports the upgrade and understands how workflows will change. The key to success is consulting with people who have walked in your shoes.
Healthcare Informatics Associates (HIA) consultants are nurses, pharmacists, ancillary clinicians and patient access/revenue cycle experts who understand the realities of the hospital environment and have the ability to shape technology solutions that fit the healthcare culture.
As part of our services, we regularly provide:
- Key metrics to measure success.
- A project roadmap to outline the changes required to achieve desired results from your investment.
- Management tracking of benefits.
In addition to identifying the benefits and ROI your organization can hope to achieve, the HIA team will outline the necessary steps and resources required to make it happen.
HIA: A Solution for Your Challenges in Healthcare
A hospital is a constantly evolving environment, with changing revenue streams and new patients arriving all the time. Updates and changes to your technology, workflows or new projects are often triggered by scenarios such as:
- A project that requires specialized skills not currently available through its staff needs to be planned and implemented.
- Your organization’s workload exceeds the available staff, but permanent full time employees are not the solution.
- With the departure of a key employee, some projects are now vulnerable to costly delays.
- Knowledge transfer of specific applications to key Information Systems staff members and/or team is needed.
- Newcomers to a team need to be oriented, educated and developed without taxing the current hospital team members.
- The project scope and issues have grown due to corporate partnering or acquisitions, and resources are needed temporarily to keep the project on time.
- Legacy systems need to be maintained while the team selects and implements a new system.
- A state-of-the-art concept or application needs to be activated with no room for errors or timeline mistakes.
If your hospital encounters any of these scenarios—as well as many others—HIA consultants can help you.