By Megan M. Krischke, NurseZone.com
With the push to obtain the full incentive payout for meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMR)/electronic health records (EHR) created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, many hospitals are in the early stages of developing and implementing their EMR. These organizations need the assistance of nurses, both with and without technical backgrounds, to make the implementation and ongoing use of these new systems a success.
“In terms of EMR, health care as a industry has been a little late to the table in working with vendors,” stated Jan Zachry, RN, BSN, MBA, vice president of nursing and operations at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, Calif.
“Most organizations do not have a fully integrated EMR,” she continued. “They may have certain areas working with an EMR or they might be working under a hybrid mode. Capital funds were very scarce prior to the availability of federal funding. So now there is a sudden movement of health care organizations working closely with vendors to expand ideas of what is possible, and to customize products that weren’t originally designed for health care.”
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