eliminate the chaos: myth #5 to avoid in your ehr migration

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Eliminate the Chaos in Your EHR Migration Myth #5: “In the end you will have the advantage of a single

system.”

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The massive undertaking of a migration presents challenges to:• Hospital operations• Clinical staff workflow• Processes for clinicians to document care• Maintaining a healthy revenue cycle

EHR Migration Challenges


A close working relationship with:• Multiple departments and clinical stakeholders• Your EHR vendor• Internal resources• Third party consultants• Interface and archive vendors

Requirements for migration


1. “Don’t move legacy data – start new in our system.”

2. “We’ll handle moving all your data with interfaces.”3. “Manual data entry is good training for your staff.”4. “All the data that is moved will be accurate.”5. “In the end you will have the advantage of a

single system.”

The Five Myths to Avoid


• Your migration will cost more• Your migration will take longer than expected• Your migration will cause chaos within your

organization

Dangers of believing the Five Myths

Myth #5: “In the end you will have the advantage of a single

system.”


• Enhances the quality of care• Drives compliance with Meaningful Use• Increases operation efficiency• Fits with an ACO structure• Can be shared within a health system and beyond

A single patient record


• Purchase of a $300 million system with the goal of having one record

• Can’t get all the data into new EHR using interfaces – use manual data entry

• Still can’t get all the data from legacy systems – try an archiving solution

• Can’t get all the data into the archiving solution in a meaningful way.

• Develops support plan with legacy vendors to keep systems and start building interfaces

• Clinical staff workflows require concurrent access to legacy systems and to new EHR

• To streamline workflows, Single Sign On and Context Management solutions are deployed

Typical progress of an EHR


• Requires hardware and humans• Data must be kept for many years.

• Length of time is established by state• For instance, Massachusetts mandates storing records 20

years after discharge• Will the knowledgeable staff still be there?• How will clinicians reference data in the legacy

system?

Difficulty of maintaining two systems


Planning ahead

“Kaveh Safavi, MD, who leads the health industry business for North

America for Accenture, a global consulting and outsourcing firm, says

Accenture tends to serve very complex, very large systems. Lately,

Accenture has worked mostly on Epic and Cerner implementations,

but its consultants have also worked on deploying Allscripts and

Meditech. “The general rule of thumb,” he says, “is whatever you

spend on your technology; you’re going to spend twice as much on

the task of implementation.”

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• Has created order from chaos for thousands of customers

• Automation platform, Boston WorkStation is the proven solution for fast and accurate data migration

• Works within your time, safety and cost constraints

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• Performs just as a person would• Many times faster than a person could• With 100% accuracy• With no additional staffing• Easily fits in your migration budget

Boston WorkStation


• Eliminates the concern over data quality• Eliminates the expense of additional staffing• Eliminates the burden and risk of having clinical staff

search in multiple systems or capture information at admission

• Standardizes the migration process• Keeps the migration on time, under budget• Aides in the adoption of the new system

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• Read the complete white paper: Eliminate the Chaos – Five Myths to Avoid in Your EHR Migration

• Visit www.slideshare.net/bossoftsys to view presentations on each of the five myths to avoid in your EHR migration

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