“In a previous article (”Keys to EHR Team Success,” Healthcare IT News; January 12, 2009) we detailed a number of governance structural components which are key to successful electronic health record (EHR) implementation.
In that article we emphasized that active involvement by both senior healthcare administrators and clinicians is essential to the successful planning, selection, and implementation of an EHR. We noted that it becomes rather tempting for both administrative and clinical leadership to view conversion from paper to electronic records as an information technology project. Conversely, we concluded that the ideal approach recognizes the essential role played by IT but acknowledges such activity is in fact best viewed as an operations effort supported by IT.”
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Edgar D. Staren and Chad A. Eckes, Healthcare IT News, 1 October 2009
