The adoption of an EHR system for physician practices without an IT department can be a daunting task regardless of the product you select. The product you select will most certainly come with some training and support to help you get up and running with the product, but that training, in many cases is time limited and often doesn’t see the physician all the way through to meaningful use.
ImplementHIT has just released a new patent-pending solution that can help small practices navigate through implementation and meaningful use processes in a self-paced e-learning environment. This new solution, called OmtimizeHIT, is designed for practices of 20 doctors or fewer, empowering them to achieve meaningful use with their qualified EHRs.
The training technology of OptimizeHIT drives adoption of even more advanced EHR functionality, and importantly, preventing lost productivity during implementation and beyond. It’s based on ImplementHIT’s successful training platform used with hospitals and larger organizations, but priced especially for smaller physician practices.
With high-level guidance from ImplementHIT’s EHR training experts, practices can leverage in-house resources to fully customize training content to their actual practice scenarios. This more meaningful training approach is necessary for effective physician participation and engagement. Based on low levels of industry-wide adoption, this has been a challenge for EHR vendors.
Because OptimizeHIT is web-based, physicians and clinical staff access the e-learning at a time and location most convenient for them. “Doctors can participate from home, at their leisure. For the providers, that’s one of the absolute best benefits,” said Jim Garrity, chief information officer, Tucson Orthopaedic Institute (TOI). “They are seeing value in the education. Coupled with the cost effectiveness of the online learning, this is putting TOI on track to save hundreds of hours of training time for providers alone,” he said. TOI uses ImplementHIT’s fully customized training solution, which is also available to larger physician practices and hospitals.
“The biggest impediment to meaningful use is meaningful education. We see evidence of that in the very small percentage of hospitals and practices using the advanced features of their EMR, like computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with problem based order sets, electronic charge submission and prescription transmission. These features are critical because they enhance workflows, and lead to the significant healthcare quality benefits promised by EMR vendors,” said Jimenez. Dr. Jimenez is a former clinical director of content and online training for Allscripts. ImplementHIT is led by physicians and experts in clinical and medical informatics and with Ph.D.-level proficiency in online learning.
You can get more information on this newly released services that the ImplementHIT website.
