BUSINESS PLAN FOR EMR(ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS)
Background:
You are the information technology (IT) project manager in a 200-bed inner-city hospital that has a 30-member primary care physician group that has one hospital-based clinic and four clinics dispersed throughout the local community. You have been asked by senior leadership to put together a proposal for creating the organization’s electronic medical record (EMR) for both the hospital and the clinics. Please provide charts, graphs, tables and data for the business plan. Also pull sample business plans from the internet for additional resources.
Selection of the vendor for the EMR software
· Staffing for design, implementation, training, and future support
· Space requirements for main equipment and desktops/workstations for doctors, nurses, and other clinicians/users
· Staff training
· Physician training
· Integration with any current electronic data sources (imaging, laboratory, dictation, billing, and quality software systems)
· Cultural , literacy, and language concerns
· Timelines for design, implementation, testing, and training