What measures and steps would you take to evaluate the success of the EHR implementation from a staff, setting, and patient perspective?

What measures and steps would you take to evaluate the success of the EHR implementation from a staff, setting, and patient perspective?

The success of the EHR implementation can be evaluated using two approaches. The first approach is to check if the technical performance of the EHR matches the expectations. In addition, this approach looks at the cost of the implementation and confirms how the actual cost matches to the budgeted costs and whether the implementation wend under or over the budget. The second approach is to engage the stakeholders and collect their perspective on the EHR system. This approach identifies the affected stakeholders, how they were affected, performance evaluation, and whether there is a need for changes (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018).

1. What leadership skills and theories would facilitate collaboration with the interprofessional team and provide evidence-based, patient-centered care?

There is a need for leadership between stakeholders to ensure that the best possible care is provided. There are two leadership skills that should be applied. The first skill is supporting co-governance and self-governance so that the stakeholders are encouraged to express their opinions with regards to their expectations. This allows them to point out areas that need improvement, particularly the features that relate to specific disciplines and stakeholder groups. The second skill is applying hierarchical governance that assigns clear authority and responsibility to individuals. In addition to the two skills, leaders should be effective change agents, self-aware, vision, innovation, self-regulation, team building, motivation, strategic planning, decisive, and have integrity. Besides that, they should apply situational leadership theory that requires the leader to always correspond the leadership style to the respective situation through evacuating the relevant variables such as the number of team members, nature of professionals and type of task (Arnold & Boggs, 2019). Benchmark – Electronic Health Record Implementation Paper.

References

Arnold, E. & Boggs, K. (2019). Interpersonal relationships e-book: professional communication skills for nurses (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.