Q: Why would my organization need to perform a
readiness assessment?
A: A structured readiness assessment before you implement your new Healthcare Information System (HIS) can make the difference between a successful implementation and a barely adequate one. The assessment will define your processes and procedures within your clinical and financial areas that will be [...]

Read Part 1 here: http://www.ithealthcareconsultants.com/?p=157
Part 2: The readiness assessment will be a tool of the Director of Medical Informatics to review ongoing processes that are used to create and disseminate various reports, in order to identify potential process improvements and implement them. As such, the goal of the readiness assessment is to provide a [...]

I was recently asked “how do I get the physicians at our hospital interested in understanding and adopting our new investment in technology, rather than just showing up to our catered informational lunch meeting for the food?” I have found that a multi-pronged approach for getting physicians to adopt healthcare information technology (HIT) is [...]