To keep track with the fast moving life, you need to add speed to your work. If you are in a medical & health business and recently have decided to use EMR software, then you are just on the right lane. Use of electronic medical records system really can inject the ease of speed along with the proven financial benefits to your business. Along with the financial benefits EMR software adds to the customer delight also. So, the introduction of EMR into your business is a fast paced innovative idea to increase profit as well as to care more for the patients.
The implementation of EMR software into your business starts with the gathering of information regarding the right type of EMR vendor. Judging by the functions and features of the software you can finalize the deal with your EMR vendor. The stage of implementation starts just after the purchase of EMR software. Sometime it also starts before the purchase of the software (in the form choosing the right person to lead). The first part of implementing the EMR software is planning. Without a proper planning you would not be able to extract the highest possible benefit from the installation of the software. In the planning part, the first consideration you have to make is to choose the physician who would take the lead. He should be well versed with the use of technology and the record keeping process. The lead physician you choose should be of such a standard that he could easily train others in this and at the same time carry on whole the process till all the concerned staff members are trained accordingly. The next issue in implementation of EMR software is the management of the old data of your patients. You have to decide the way that how you would manage them in an appropriate manner. Dividing the old record as per the customer appropriation into different segments can help you to sort out this problem. You can keep the active and the freshest of the cases for the entry at the first phase into the EMR software you have purchased. After that set a time frame for the data to become active or live for use. In this manner and with the help of available technology your planning can track down all the improvements and the hurdles in the way of implementation of the EMR software.
The next step concerned is preparing your staff accordingly. There might resistance to this change from your staff members. In such a situation you need to use your convincing power. The lead physician already appointed should be dedicated to that job only, so that he can specialize on ERM and make it easy for others. The staff members should be convinced of the usefulness of this software. Care should be taken so that no one feels unsecure with their job with the introduction of EMR software.
After preparing the staff members mentally and technically, the next concerned step is the testing of the software with reference to your specifications. You can ask for further customization to the vendor after testing it properly. After the allocation of the required resources in place, the next step is to have dummy session with all your staffs and this should be handled by the lead physician appointed so far. Now the EMR software you have installed is ready for the use.
But the very fact is that proper and full implementation of EMR software is not possible. Even in US only 25% percent of all the physicians use the service of EMR software. The implementation is actually an ongoing process which also contains the maintenance of the EMR software system. So, you should have a system of tracking the performances as well as the setbacks it reports from time to time during the use.
