System Selection and Evaluation

Determining your organization’s needs can often be a daunting task given the number of vendors in the marketplace and budgetary constraints.  We can guide your organization through documentation of business processes, system requirements, analysis, vendor product evaluation, and selection activities.

This approach facilitates selection of the best possible system to meet your business, clinical, budget, and support requirements.  It is essential to understand not only the application software fit to your requirements but also the feasibility of the solution for your organization.

This service provides:

• Guided processes to assist in an accurate "apples to apples" comparison of vendors, products, costs, and other considerations to support a well-informed system vendor and software selection.
• Prioritized functional and technical requirement scoring tools.
• Cost identification for the initial implementation of a system and the on-going system usage and support (total cost of ownership).

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Workshop

This is a two-hour, practical, vendor-neutral educational program on the life cycle of an EMR s implementation.  The workshop spans from requirements definition, benefits, costs, impacts, and other considerations.  This workshop will help your organization think through the financial, business, technical, and clinical/management readiness to move forward with an EMR system.

This workshop provides:

• A clear, common understanding of EMR terminology, components, implications, and options regarding EMR systems.
• Techniques to assess your organization's readiness for implementing an EMR system.
• An understanding of the potential benefits and costs of implementing an EMR.
• An understanding of the tools and methods for evaluating and selecting the best system for your organization.
• Best practices for implementation management.

EMR Implementation Planning and Workflow Redesign

Implementing an EMR can be a challenging process.  This planning process guides your organization through the clinical, business, and facility workflow considerations and implications involved in implementing the selected EMR system. The approach can also provide assistance with EMR implementation.

Outcomes include:

• Facilitated agreement on the most effective approach for phasing in system features for best possible use and acceptance by clinical and business staff.
• Redesign of workflows and processes addressing key decisions for clinical use and efficiency, business integration, and facility changes to achieve maximum value from the EMR system.
• Definition of a detailed implementation project work plan documenting tasks, dependencies, milestones, timelines, and delineating responsibilities between your organization and vendor team members.
• Development of acceptance testing scenarios and criteria that must be met for milestone payments to the vendor.

EMR Implementation
Project Management

Implementation of an EMR system is an exciting initiative and can be overwhelming if you do not have staff with the right skills to manage it.  Wipfli help your organization in many ways to provide assistance tailored to your specific needs.

We can help with one or more of these approaches:

• Do - Wipfli can provide all of the resources to accomplish the project.
  
  
• Mentor - Wipfli can coach an organization or specific individuals through a project, serving as an advisor, providing tools, templates, and best practices.
  
  
• Manage - Wipfli can serve as project manager and subject matter expert using the organization’s team to perform most of the work.

Helping you define a customized approach that meets your needs will ultimately save project dollars and set the stage to mentor your staff to increased levels of competency and understanding.
 
Full-service project management and “doing the project” can provide your organization with a hands-on approach and detailed involvement with the vendor and your implementation team members in day-to-day management and execution of the implementation, testing, training, and "go-live" activities associated with the EMR implementation.

Benefits to your organization include:

• Detailed analysis and redesign of clinical and business processes and flows to gain maximum value from the EMR system with full consideration for clinical needs.
• Design decision facilitation and application configuration support.
• Application and workflow analysis and testing.
• Training plan development with materials to support workflows and processes.
• Implementation planning and Go-Live support.
• Staff familiarity with implementation of the major health care software vendor applications.