Background
The established electronic health records (EHRs) system CERNER is being replaced by a new system, EPIC, at the Atrium Hospital. Hospital staff is expected to confront data migration issues regarding IV pumps during the transition period. These problems can be solved by tightly monitoring and ensuring compatibility between old and new structures. The current EHR system at the Atrium clinic is appropriate for minuscule to medium-sized medical facilities. As the Atrium hospital continues to grow, the decision to switch from CERNER to EPIC is timely. EPIC not only provides care delivery service management, such as enrollment and timetabling, and clinical systems for physicians, nurses, and emergency personnel, but it also assists in the creation and management of payment systems for insurance companies while organizing cloud services for clients.
Data Gathering and Data Analysis
In today’s world, technological advances are used everywhere, including in nursing practice. Nursing computer science is a new industry that has recently emerged. Nursing informatics is a field that integrates traditional nursing knowledge with technological skills in order to promote better patient care and positive outcomes for patients. It seeks to improve clinicians’ ability to treat patients successfully by utilizing evidence-based practices, data processing, research, and education. Furthermore, updating old structures to more contemporary ones impacts many aspects of healthcare, such as keeping digital graphs instead of paper ones. Even though advanced techniques aim to make doctors’ and nurses’ jobs easier, several significant changes are still required.
Project Scope
Business Case
This project focuses on ensuring conformance with IV pump incorporation from Cerner to EPIC. The project’s scope is restricted to all implantable devices used by health infrastructure owned by the hospital, which has many facilities. The selection of crucial constituents like the existing constraints and project milestones is the first step in developing the project scope. The second step in development is the proposal to interested parties and safeguarding their cooperation. The following step is to allocate and implement a budget. These three steps are critical to a successful implementation.
Stakeholder
The project’s constraints and future implementation are contingent on stakeholders. As a result, a comprehension of the scope of the project is required to provide efficient management options. Since stakeholders offer the budget and are interested in the wellness and efficiency outcomes, they remain critical to the project’s success (Sun et al., 2017). They must comprehend project insights to determine the feasibility and investment values. Outside the endeavor’s scope, their knowledge of the health sector may provide expertise on successful integration methods. Stakeholders play an important role in risk reduction and are ultimately linked to the project’s achievement.
Project Deliverables
The new system is appropriate for medium to large-sized hospitals. It is primarily intended to make generating and managing large amounts of current data simple while delivering assistance to both in-patients and out-patients. As a result, to identify deliverables, it is essential to determine what outputs this technology’s implementation could provide. Electronic health records, which reduce costs and improve system efficiency, are economically and strategically critical for growing healthcare organizations. The new EPIC EHR system is expected to address ineffectiveness and fully automated data backup in medical facilities. EPIC places a high value on encouraging distant treatment and client interaction.
Completion Criteria
The functional system requirements can be assessed based on the goals of the medical institution. Remote access, for example, is required so that health center representatives can become familiar with the patient’s file and make recommendations regardless of where they are. The leadership of the health institution is critical in allocating the budget for employee training and then guaranteeing that the staff enhances the abilities and skills to employ the new scheme for error-free data administration and information handling. All of the advantages of electronic health record systems in care quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and communication depend on the medical staff. There is a clear requirement for adequate employee preparation to manage the system correctly.
Success Criteria
The project success criteria would be an ‘in scope’ concept considering the finances provided and the need to complete incorporation by the agreed timeline. Furthermore, one of the critical success factors is full employee acceptance and widespread application of the new tech within healthcare organizations (Sun et al., 2017). Furthermore, avoiding risks by adhering to holistic practices and acting honestly is a crucial success factor.
References
Baernholdt, M., & Boyle, D. K. (2021). Nurses contributions to quality health outcomes. Springer.
McBride, S., & Tietze, M. (2021). Health information technology and electronic health records. In Nurses Contributions to Quality Health Outcomes (pp. 109-125). Springer, Cham.
Sun, J., Chai, N., Pi, G., Zhang, Z., & Fan, B. (2017). Modularization of product service system based on functional requirement. Procedia CIRP, 64(1), 301-305. Web.