An EMR Success Story: Securing Physician Buy-in, Enhancing Patient Care

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You'll Learn:

• Moses Cone’s process for an EMR selection and evaluation.
• How to gain physician involvement, acceptance, and collaboration with IT.
• How to overcome challenges and realize the benefits of an EMR implementation.
• How to create an EMR deployment model with a high success of physician adoption.

Webcast Summary:

Located in Greensboro, NC, Moses Cone Health System is a multi-hospital system with a range of outpatient services designed to provide care for area residents throughout all stages of their lives. It has spent three years planning for a significant investment in EMRs at its five hospitals and several outpatient clinics.

In this session, John Jenkins, CIO, and Dr. Bruce Swords, CMIO, will discuss their organization’s need to implement an EMR system for ambulatory and inpatient settings. Moses Cone's goal was to enhance patient care by providing physicians throughout the health system with access to the same patient information. They will discuss the primary success factors for implementation including collaboration between physicians, administration, project managers, and their system vendors. So far implementation is complete in over half of the 35 clinics. Physicians are already saying they are able to provide better patient care because of the increased quality of data.

Key Areas Covered:

• How to gain physician buy-in and adoption of an EMR.
• Implementation and deployment of an EMR.
• How IT and clinicians can work together towards common goals.
• Improvements made to quality of data and improved patient care.
• Return on investment and financial impact to the organization.

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Dr. Bruce Swords   
Chief Medical Information Officer
Moses Cone Health System