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R E A D E R
S U R V E Y
WHAT THEY WISH THEY KNEW
Advice From Those Who've Gone Before You
• "Pay more attention to
programs that can be
shared. Often vendors
imply [information from
other programs] can be
imported when, in reality, it doesn't work," says
an administrator from
the south. The lesson? Give vendors a list of your current software at
the outset, and find out what will work (and what might need upgrading
or replacing) before you move forward.
• "Not every [part of the patient record] has a template — you have to
program a lot of these things yourself," says a DON from the south. The
takeaway: Work with your vendor and IT expert to either develop the
templates up front or to learn how to create them when you need them.
• "To do it right, you must be prepared to dedicate much of your life to
the project," says Stephanie Diem, RN, BS, administrative director at
Washington Square Endoscopy Center in Philadelphia. There's no way
around this; just prepare yourself mentally for the undertaking.
SOURCE: Outpatient Surgery Magazine Reader Survey, January 2013
Just 10.8% are "just getting started," and 16.2% say they're "somewhere in
the middle of it all."
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