Question

List the team members that would be involved in EHR implementation. What members are best suited to be leaders?

What are some team building activities that could be utilized during an EHR implementation to keep everyone "on board" and positive?

Answer 1

An Electronic Health Record implementation involves the steps and strategies required to systematically collect the patients and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. It is a real time patient centred record and information whcih makes the information available instantly to the authorized users.

Team members involved in EHR implementation

• Physicians
• Nurses
• Receptionists
• Medical Assistants
• Compliance Office Staff
• Administrative Staff

It also includes Lead Physician,Project Manager and Lead Super User. Members who are physicians, have a fair knowledge of patients health and electronic process are best suited to be leaders.Lead Physician and Project Manager are most appropriate to be leaders.

Team Building activities where the entire team is being given a task to accomplish within the stipulated time, training activities where the team members teach and train each other and the entire team crossing the bridge together with much of hurdles, are some of the team building activities.