Description
Scenario: You’re hired! You are just starting a new job as a community health clinic director and your first task is to tackle the clinic’s archaic, paper-based medical record system. Although the community health center wishes to “go paperless,” the staff has no idea where to start. All eyes are on you to start the process to unravel the mystery of how to “go paperless.”
You are commissioned with the task to make sense of the electronic health record solutions available and give a recommendation for which one(s) your clinic should implement.
Compose an executive summary of your proposal to your company/co-workers describing your initial plan for this project.
- Describe your initial plan for this task.
- Be sure to give a summary of the options you considered, including an in-depth feature comparison and analysis of how they would function in the public health setting (comparison tables/figures/charts are a must, which you can include via a link).
- Be sure to consider the components that distinguish one product from another (i.e., cost of the product, quality of support plans, integration with existing systems, ease of use, training materials).
- Finally, identify other steps you could/would take with more time and resources at your disposal.
Explanation & Answer
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Going Paperless - Outline
I.
Initial Plan for this Task
A. Arguably, the desire to transition from paper-based health records goes beyond
adopting electronic health records (EHR).
B. To overcome any potential barriers, the preferred intervention would be to seek a
person that can champion the cause of EHR among the staff and other
stakeholders.
II.
Summary of the Options considered
A. In the initial plan, the option considered includes the cloud-based and the onpremise EHR systems.
III.
Component that Distinguishes Cloud-Based and On-Premise EHR
A. Both the cloud-based and the on-premise EHR systems have features that can be
of value to the public health setting but differ in composition and hence the need
to make an informed decision.
IV.
Other Steps
A. As per the initial plans, the preferred option was either the cloud-based or onpremise EHR systems.
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Going Paperless
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Going Paperless
Initial Plan for this Task
Arguably, the desire to transition from paper-based health records goes beyond adopting
electronic health records (EHR). Paper-based is preferred within the health care setting due to the
ease of making references and reading rather than referring from electronic devices. However,
the benefits associated with going paperless are immense h...
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