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2-Day Course
EHR Project Management For Healthcare Organizations

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Finally, a workshop that focuses exclusively on the good project management skills required for successful EHR implementation. Healthcare professionals will explore critical success factors and the common pitfalls that can occur in EHR project management. Identify practice and vendor responsibilities as they relate to the management team. EHR design, scope and incremental rollout considerations will be explored in detail. Participants will identify the roles and responsibilities of the implementation team. Students examine commonly used project management methodologies and how to apply them to the hospital/practice EHR implementation project.

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Course Outline

1. Overview of EHR Project Management
High level look at the lessons learned by other industries dealing with project management. Identifying critical success factors and common pitfalls and ways to avoid repeating those mistakes.

• Identify key success factors essential to any project
• Identify common pitfalls to project success
• Roles and responsibilities of EHR project team members
• Establishing lines of communication for the implementation process
• Identifying EHR project risks and how to manage those risks
• EHR Quality Triangle - Time/Cost/Scope
• Project Initiation Checklist

2. EHR Project Implementation Considerations
Establishing clear and concise project requirements with realistic time parameters and sufficient resources dedicated to the project to insure a successful implementation. This section focuses on project management best practices currently used in many industries.

• Identifying practice EHR goals and objectives (clinical & business)
• Establishing a realistic project time line and scope for rollout
• Six Sigma and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies
• Determining project deliverables
• Building a successful implementation team
• Baseline hardware and training costs
• Benefits of a Critical Path Analysis
• Practice Change Management
• Vendor and practice implementation checklist
• Evaluating staff and provider training needs

3. Working with your EHR vendor

• Establishing project manager, IT manager and vendor responsibilities up front for a successful project rollout
• Techniques for handling EHR scope creep
• EHR design and customization considerations
• Meeting or exceeding project milestones

4. EHR project controls and closure

• Test, Test, Test
• Incremental EHR module rollout
• EHR project evaluation
     - What could we have done better? Done more of? Done differently?

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Who Should Attend

• Healthcare CIOs
• Healthcare Practice Administrators
• EHR Implementation Team Members
• HIT Managers
• HIT Business Analysts
• Healthcare Project Managers
• Practice IT Managers
• Clinical Directors
• Business Office Managers
• IPA Directors