Project Management

There are different strategies for transitioning from paper records to electronic. You need to take into consideration the environment in your practice and tailor the transition to meet your needs. Managing tasks and major milestones will be key to your project’s success. HIC can develop and manage your plan for:

• Equipment Evaluation - with consideration given to existing hardware, vendor specifications, uptime and maintenance requirements
• System Configuration - development of templates, health maintenance alerts, ICD and CPT codes, drug database and other features
• Scanning and Backloading - the transfer of existing paper records to electronic format
• Security - HIPAA, data integrity, backup and disaster recovery plans
• Data Migration - the transfer of demographic data from an existing practice management system to the EHR
• Training - on-site or web based training of physicians and staff by the EHR vendor, and ongoing training by "superusers" in the client's practice
• Testing - assessment of the EHR system and interfaces by practice staff
• Go-Live - the period during which the practice begins entering live data during patient visits
• Evaluation - post-go-live assessments of functionality
• Improvement - use of EHR features such as health maintenance alerts and reporting capabilities to improve patient car