http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/07/30/news-73009/ Physician practice and systems news and opinion Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/07/30/news-73009/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Bignurse Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:47:52 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/?p=789#comment-421 The Urology Associates of North Texas article about EMR migration does a good job of describing a systematic, planned approach to a "daunting task". It is clear that the team and vendor expended many design-build-test hours to accomplish the migration safely and effectively. Many practices lack the resources to perform a technolgy-supported migration such as this. Another approach is to rip-and-replace, requiring all clinical data to be entered as New in the new EMR, along with a migration workflow that makes paper charts inaccessible to the physicians after a planned number of days or weeks. Examples of successful migration strategies can be found on the HIMSS Davies Award website. The Urology Associates of North Texas article about EMR migration does a good job of describing a systematic, planned approach to a “daunting task”. It is clear that the team and vendor expended many design-build-test hours to accomplish the migration safely and effectively.
Many practices lack the resources to perform a technolgy-supported migration such as this. Another approach is to rip-and-replace, requiring all clinical data to be entered as New in the new EMR, along with a migration workflow that makes paper charts inaccessible to the physicians after a planned number of days or weeks.
Examples of successful migration strategies can be found on the HIMSS Davies Award website.

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