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ership of their part of the implementation.
• Not communicating well with the
team. This was one of the greatest
challenges. There are so many
facets to an EMR implementation. It's difficult to know who
needs to be involved in what. I
didn't want to bog down the clinical staff with the interface
issues, yet they needed to know
how these interfaces were affecting the whole project. I finally
made a spreadsheet to track all
the issues and people I needed to
update daily, weekly or occasionally.
Our successes:
• EMR selection. This was one of
the longest and hardest pieces of
an EMR implementation. It took
more than 2 years of concentrated
effort to get to the point where
we could take our request to the
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