Day One              June 9, 2008

Welcome and Overview
8:00am - 8:30am

Planning for a technology implementation
8:30am - 10:00am
Learn how your organization will assess organizational readiness, including financial readiness and the implications of conversion to an EHR. This session will provide a step by step guide on goal setting, identification of champions, how to inventory existing hardware, software and infrastructure, policies and procedures and staff capacity for an EHR implementation

Break
10:00am - 10:30am

EHR system evaluation and vendor selection
10:30am - 12:30pm
Guides your organization through the product evaluation and selection activities to assure it selects the best possible system to meet its business, clinical, budget and support requirements. This session also provides:

• Guided processes to assure an accurate “apples to apples” comparison of vendors, products, costs, and other considerations to support a well-informed EHR system vendor and software selection.
• Prioritized functional and technical requirements.
• The fundamentals of vendor contracting

Lunch
12:30pm - 1:15pm

EHR implementation planning, workflow redesign and training
1:15pm - 2:45pm
An in-depth planning process that guides your organization through the clinical, business and facility workflow considerations and implications involved in implementing its selected EHR system.

• Preliminary redesign of workflows and processes addressing key decisions for clinical use and efficiency, business integration and facility changes to achieve maximum value from the EHR system.

Break
2:45pm - 3:15pm

An implementation project work plan
3:15pm - 4:15pm

• Documenting tasks, dependencies, milestones and timelines and delineating responsibilities between your organization and vendor team members.
• Acceptance testing scenarios and criteria that must be met for milestone payments to the vendor.

Discussion and Questions (optional)
4:15pm – 5:00pm

Day Two              June 10, 2008

Welcome
8:15am - 8:30am

Interfaces
8:30am - 10:00am
This session will cover different interface considerations for EHRs and how to ensure the data will be effectively moved from one application to another. A detailed overview of interface development, testing and implementation will be covered.

Break
10:00am - 10:30am

Reporting and quality improvement (Part 1)
10:30am - 12:00pm
Learn how current EHR data can be used to support performance improvement activities, provide information to payors for Pay for Performance, and provide data for the National Health Disparities Collaborative activities. Participants will be given a primer of clinical quality measures including the AQA starter set. Development of a dashboard report to monitor your organization across many areas of activity will be demonstrated.

Lunch
12:00pm - 12:45pm

Reporting and quality improvement (Part 2)
12:45pm - 2:15pm

Break
2:15pm - 2:45pm

Maintaining the momentum
2:45pm - 4:00pm
Learn about ways to ensure key stakeholder involvement and ongoing use and adoption of your EHR. This session will cover approaches to change management, celebrating success and how to create a culture of continuous improvement. Learn how to identify opportunities to measure success and patient and staff satisfaction.