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Running head: GENERIC HOSPITAL 1 Generic Hospital Electronic Medical Record System Implementation Business Plan
Purple Group
Gracy Zachariah
Julie Fixemer
Andrew Cadriel
Matilde N. Romanowski
Grand Canyon University: HCA 620
December 14th, 2016
Dr. Justin Crockett Table of Contents Generic Hospital Electronic Medical Record System Implementation
o Mission
o Goals Generic Hospital Description Hospital Services Business Profile Market Analysis
o Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Vendor Market Analysis
o Generic Hospital Market Analysis Area Demographics Competitors Operational Plan Management Team Financial Analysis
o EMR Vendor Estimated Cost Analysis
o Generic Hospital?s Historical Financial Performance Trends GENERIC HOSPITAL 2 Generic Hospital Electronic Medical Record System Implementation
Mission
To seamlessly implement Generic Hospital?s first state-of-the-art single vendor electronic
medical record (EMR) system in all departments, clinics, and primary care physician (PCP)
offices within the budget and a timeline of 18 months.
Goals To improve the quality of patient care, safety, and outcomes; To improve patient satisfaction and experience at Generic Hospital, its community
clinics, and PCP offices; To streamline workflows, improve job satisfaction, and retain clinical staff; To seamlessly share vital patient medical information within Generic Hospital, its
community clinics, and PCP offices to enhance continuity of care; To expedite medical decision making, reduce delays in treatment, decrease medical
errors, minimize costly hospital readmissions, decease healthcare costs, and increase
revenues; To implement a user friendly solution with an effective deployment strategy that includes
training, education, and transition/change support in particular to frontline users (clinical
staff); To maintain Generic Hospital?s position as the premier Level II Trauma Center and the
first hospital of choice in its service area.
Generic Hospital Description
Generic Hospital is a 200-bed Level II Trauma Center with five surgical suites, two
intensive care units, three step-down units, five adult acute care units, a pediatric unit, an internal
and family medicine on-site clinic, an emergency department, and four general/family medicine
clinics strategically located within our community. Generic Hospital is associated with 30-PCPs
and employs more than 800 physician?s assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, physical GENERIC HOSPITAL 3 therapists, and other support staff that provide care to an estimated 1,750 patients on a daily
basis.
Generic Hospital serves an ethnically and generationally diverse inner-city community of
about 600,000 people including infants, teenagers, young adults, adults, and senior citizens. As a
Level II Trauma Center, Generic Hospital has the ability to initiate and provide definitive care
for all injured patients, including 24-hour immediate coverage for general, orthopedic, and
neurosurgery surgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, and critical care
(American Trauma Society, n.d.). Generic Hospital also covers tertiary care needs such as
hemodialysis and cardiac surgery as well as continuing education programs for all staff and
trauma prevention (American Trauma Society, n.d.).
However, Generic Hospital?s current information system (IS) is unable to meet the needs
of its patients, the community, the clinics, PCPs, and staff (clinical and administrative). Generic
Hospital?s IS consists of disparate departmental ancillary applications including MEDITECH for
admissions/discharge/transfers (ADT) and billing, LCMC for laboratory, CareFusion for
pharmacy, X-Ray for imaging, and paper charts. The abovementioned departmental ancillary
applications are not coordinated or synchronized and do not communicate vital patient data in a
timely manner to frontline clinicians throughout the hospital?s units, community clinics, and PCP
offices. Generic Hospital?s IS is costly because of the high number of labor hours needed to
maintain and support the multiple departmental ancillary applications, delays in treatment due to
the cumbersome clinical staff workflows and their inability to make quicker more accurate
clinical decisions because of the lack of timely access to vital patient data. More importantly,
Generic Hospital?s archaic IS jeopardizes our patients? safety and well-being. The hospital?s
outdated and obsolete IS also threatens the organization?s financial stability and its position as
the premier Level II Trauma Center in the service area. GENERIC HOSPITAL 4 To remedy this critical situation and create more effective and efficient staff workflows
that will improve care quality, reduce delays in treatment, save lives, and at the same time
decrease overhead expenditures and contain costs, our information technology (IT) team
proposes the implementation of a single vendor EMR system. The EMR system will seamlessly
integrate all of our disparate departmental ancillary applications into one user-friendly software
application. The EMR system will effectively eliminate the need for multiple user names and
passwords as well as paper charting, which will streamline workflows and access to vital patient
data. A single vendor EMR will also considerably reduce the manpower and labor hours required
to maintain the system and support end-users. The implementation of an EMR system is not only
cost effective, it will allow Generic Hospital to maintain its position as the market leader, expand
and streamline existing services while reducing costs and increasing revenues as a result of an
increase in patient satisfaction, increase in patient numbers, and a reduction in overhead
expenditures (HealthIT.Gov, 2014).
Generic Hospital?s Services
The services provided by Generic Hospital, its associated community clinics, and PCPs include: Outpatient internal and family medicine consultations;
Inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures (adult and pediatric);
Diagnostic laboratory and radiological services;
Emergency services;
Primary care physician services;
General trauma services (including traumatic brain injuries);
Walk-in consultations in the clinics;
Emergent care services in the clinics;
Pharmacy and physiotherapy services;
Clinical nurse specialists in the areas of diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease,
health promotion, infection control, pain management, respiratory care, and palliative
care (St. John?s Hospital, 2016).
Business Profile GENERIC HOSPITAL 5 Established in 1969 Generic Hospital owns and operates four strategically located innercity community clinics, its flagship location that has 200 beds, has a close-knit associations with
30 highly respected PCPs in the service area, and is known for its cardiothoracic, urology, and
neurosurgery specialties. Generic Hospital is a well-established healthcare organization that has
earned the trust of the community and the respect of its competitors through years of outstanding,
quality and cost effective healthcare services. Generic Hospital is the premier Level II Trauma
Center in its service area with a total market share of 47.8 % of inpatient admissions and 48.6%
of primary care services.
Market Analysis
EMR Vendor Market Analysis
To select the EMR vendor that best suited Generic Hospital?s patient population, staff
workflows, existing IT infrastructure, IT staffing resources, strategic initiatives, budget, and also
met federal regulations under the HITECH Act, the information technology (IT) project
management team researched the top EMR vendors. Using various reputable resources including
peer-to-peer interviews, KLAS (vendor performance database), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (certified IT product list), and HIMSS Analytics (industry research firm) the
project management team narrowed the search down to five top EMR vendors (Sugrue, 2015).
These top five EMR vendors, compared in Table 1, include Epic, AthenaHealth, Cerner,
MEDITECH, and Greenway (Green, 2015). A Request for Proposal (RFP) with Generic
Hospital?s specific EMR requirements and IT specifications was sent out to all of the above EMR
vendors.
Table 1 - Top Five EMR Vendor Comparison
Vendor KLAS
Interoperability
ranking KLAS
Strengths KLAS
Weaknesses KLAS
MD
Usability Generic Hospital?s
RFP Bid Response
Evaluation Based on
Customer Service,
Existing IT
Infrastructure, Cost,
Functionality, and GENERIC HOSPITAL 6 Epic 1 Interoperabilit
y team savvy
and well
respected by
competitors
and providers
(Green, 2015) The vendor is
seen as
inflexible and
closed off
(Green, 2015) Above
market
average in
effective
and
productiv
e usage
(Tate,
2015) AthenaHealth 2 Offers lowcost solutions
and perceived
as easy to
connect and
proactive
(Green, 2015). Sharing
between clients
could is weak
(Green, 2015) Did not
measure
up (Tate,
2015) Cerner 3 Strong tools
for building
complex
connections
are offered
(Green, 2015). Clients felt
irritated by
costs and clientto-client sharing
software
(Green, 2015) MEDITEC
H 4 Vendor
appreciated by
clients for its
transparent
efforts
(Green, 2015). Lower level of
sharing overall
due to weaker
tools (Green,
2015). Slightly
above
market
average in
effective
and
productiv
e usage
(Tate,
2015)
Below
market
average in
effective
and
productiv
e usage
(Tate,
2015) references
Great customer
service, EMR can be
easily implemented
with some upgrades to
existing IT
infrastructure, cost
within budget,
excellent
functionality, ease of
user interface, and
departmental
integration. Excellent
references.
Great customer
service, EMR
implementation
requires significant
upgrades to existing
IT infrastructure, cost
over budget,
suboptimal
functionality.
Acceptable
references.
Acceptable customer
service, EMR
implementation
requires significant
upgrades to existing
IT infrastructure, cost
over budget,
suboptimal
functionality.
Excellent references.
Poor customer
service, EMR can be
implemented with
minimal upgrades to
existing IT
infrastructure, cost
within budget,
suboptimal
functionality.
Reasonable
references. GENERIC HOSPITAL
Greenway 5 7
Shows
confidence
with new oneto-many
connection for
sharing
(Green, 2015) Clients were
frustrated with
connections
communication
s and smaller
practices lacked
connections
(Green, 2015). Did not
measure
up (Tate,
2015). Acceptable customer
service, EMR requires
substantial upgrades
to existing IT
infrastructure for
implementation, cost
over budget,
suboptimal
functionality.
Acceptable references After careful review and scrutiny of each of the five abovementioned EMR vendors? RFP
responses, and market research findings, the IT project management team felt that the Epic EMR
was the best overall fit for Generic Hospital. The Epic EMR was selected mainly because of its
large market share, experience in complex environments, the simplicity of their user interface,
their savvy interoperability team, ease of integration, excellent customer support, long-term cost
efficiency, and short-term return on investment (personal communication; Green, 2015; Tate,
2015). The Epic EMR is certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and
meets the federal requirements mandated by the HITECH Act for Meaningful Use and
interoperability (personal communication). Furthermore, the Epic EMR will require minimal
additions to our current IT support and nursing informatics staffing resources.
Epic Systems Corporation (2016) is a privately owned multibillion dollar organization
founded in 1979. The organization prides itself with developing healthcare software that helps
people stay well, get well and that will help future generations live healthier lives (Epic, 2016).
Currently 190 million Americans have their medical records managed, updated, and stored in an
Epic EMR database (Epic, 2016). Through Epic?s trademark features Care Everywhere Network
and MyChart Generic Hospital will easily and effortlessly meet HITECH?s mandates of
interoperability and Meaningful Use respectively (Epic, 2016). Additionally, the Epic software
operates under the HL7 standards that allow for ease of interoperability with its competitors GENERIC HOSPITAL 8 (Salgaonkar, 2013). The Epic EMR is known for its high-level functionality and ease of user
interface throughout the healthcare industry and as a cost effective and efficient system that
improves care quality, improves workflows, helps to minimize medical errors, and reduces costs.
Generic Hospital Market Analysis
Generic Hospital, the in-house internal and family medicine clinic, four strategically
located general medicine community clinics, and 30-member PCP group serve a large and
diverse inner-city population. More than 1,750 patients of all ages receive care on a daily basis
via Generic Hospital and its affiliated clinics and PCPs. Generic Hospital?s market share in the
service area is an estimated 47.8% of all inpatient admissions and 48.6% of primary care services
(Sonoma Valley Hospital [SVH], 2012).
Area Demographics
Recent population estimates reveal that Generic Hospital?s combined service area
encompasses a population of 600,000 with 15% ages 14 and younger, 35% between the ages of
15 and 44, 30% between the ages of 45 and 64, and 20% age 65 and older [Figure 1] (SVH,
2012). Generic Hospital?s service area ethnic mix consists of 30 % African-American, 10%
Asian, 20% Caucasian, 35% Hispanic, and 5 % other [Figure 2]. Population density projections
show that Generic Hospital?s combined service area population will have a slight decrease in the
next five years (SVH, 2012). The decrease in population will be in the number of people between
the ages of 45 and 64 as they become part of the greater than 65 years of age population (SVH,
2012). However, the Hispanic population is expected to grow 13% within the next five years
(SVH, 2012). The median household income for Generic Hospital?s combined service area is an
estimated $65,051 annually (SVH, 2012). In the next five years the median household income is
expected to increase by 15% to $74,574 (SVH, 2012).
Figure 1 GENERIC HOSPITAL 9 Generic Hospital Service Area Patient Age Distribution
Ages 14 and
Younger
Ages Between 15
and 44
Ages Between 45
and 64
Age 65 and Older Figure 2 Generic Hospital Service Area Ethnic Mix
African-American
Asian
Caucasian
Hispanic
Other Inner-city populations tend to experience health issues due to problems such as economic decline,
job loss, socioeconomic factors, and disease related to race and ethnicity (Prewitt, 2004). The population GENERIC HOSPITAL 10 also shows to have 23.6% of people under the age of 65 being uninsured, a majority of these coming from
inner-city pockets throughout Generic Hospital?s service area (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). Competitors
Generic Hospital?s market share and presence are listed in Table 2 (SVH, 2012). Generic
Hospital captured 47.8 % of all inpatient admissions and 48.6% of primary care services from
the combined service area (SVH, 2012).
Table 2 ? Generic Hospital?s Inpatient Admissions Market Share
Hospital Name
Total Beds
Market Share %
Generic Hospital
200
47.8
Kaiser Hospital
142
8.1
Santa Rosa Memorial
218
6.0
Marin General Hospital
164
5.3
Queen Valley Hospital
159
4.1
Sutter Hospital
94
1.8
Sun Valley Hospital
71
1.5
Community General
39
0.6
Hospital
(SVH, 2012)
Generic Hospital?s competitive edge is due to its status as the premier Level II Trauma
Center in the service area, its renowned cardiothoracic, urology, and neurosurgery services, and
its close-knit affiliation with 30 of the most highly respected and well-known PCPs in the
community. Nonetheless to maintain its competitive edge and continue to serve its diverse innercity community Generic Hospital needs to enter the 21st century with the implementation of a
state-of-the-art user friendly and interoperable EMR system immediately. In an effort to sustain
and gain market share Generic Hospital will implement an advertising, marketing, and
public/community relations campaign that will start six months prior to the Go-live event. This
strategic community outreach plan will include radio and TV spots in English and Spanish,
strategically placed billboards in underserved areas, and news media outreach to promote and
highlight Generic Hospital?s quality of care, cost effective healthcare services, exemplary 47 year
service to the community, and the implementation of its state-of-the-art the Epic EMR that will GENERIC HOSPITAL 11 allow its patients to have greater participation in their healthcare and access to their medical
records from home using the internet via the MyChart feature.
Internal promotion and marketing of the Epic EMR implementation will include: A global e-mail to all employees about the decision to implement a state-of-the-art EMR system
that will facilitate and streamline their workflows; A countdown clock to the Epic launch date on Generic Hospital?s intranet homepage; Periodic global e-mails on the progress of the project; and Town-hall meetings from Generic Hospital (broadcast via closed-circuit TV to the community
clinics and PCP offices) conducted by the EMR implementation management team where
employees can voice their concerns, ask questions about the project and how it will impact
patient care, their daily workflows, and facility operations. Operational Plan
Integrating, designing, configuring, testing, training, and implementing the Epic EMR
will be accomplished within an estimated 18 month period, with an estimated start date of
December 14, 2016 and approximate end date of January 18, 2019. During this period the
departmental ancillary applications including patient information management
(admissions/discharges and transfers [ADT]), pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, imaging, nutrition
and food services, and clinical information systems (elimination of paper charts) will be
integrated, coordinated, and configured. Two sets of team champions have been selected to assist
in the implementation of the Epic EMR. Each group of 14 team champions will be assigned to
participate in the design and configuration of the EMR or in the integration, synchronization, and
coordination of the departmental ancillary applications as well as the integration and conversion
of paper charts to electronic format.
The EMR design and configuration team champions will be headed by the Chief Nursing
Informatics Officer (CNIO) who will be assisted by Generic Hospital?s IT project manager. The
Chief Information Officer (CIO) will be in charge of ensuring that the existing and newly GENERIC HOSPITAL 12 acquired IT equipment is functioning optimally utilizing existing IT staff resources by the GoLive test date (Monday, January 21, 2019). Additionally the CIO will head the integration,
coordination, and synchronization EMR team champions assisted by the Epic project manager.
The Chief Operations Officer (COO) will be in charge of ensuring that all the staff is
appropriately scheduled for training and support prior to the transition from the current disparate
departmental ancillary applications and paper charting to the Epic EMR. The COO will have two
staff members assist in the development of the organization-wide Epic training schedule and 20
temporary Epic-certified trainers to train clinical and administrative staff (see EMR
implementation organizational chart). IT user support and EMR maintenance in-house staff will
be trained at Epic Headquarters (see Table 4 for estimated training dates).
During the initial phase of the Epic EMR implementation (design, configuration, and
integration of ancillary applications) 15 temporary IT and nursing/medical informatics staff will
be required in order to meet the system design and configuration deadlines as outlined in Table 3.
There will be a total of 43 IT and nursing/medical informatics staff (including temporary and
existing staff) working with the Epic IT project manager and Generic Hospital?s IT project
manager on the design, configuration, integration, coordination, and synchronization of the
system. Prior to the Go-Live date, the system will be tested throughout Generic Hospital?s units,
the community clinics, and PCP offices for a period of 60 days to ensure complete and seamless
departmental ancillary integration and optimal functionality.
Table 3 ? Estimated Timeline for Epic EMR Implementation (design, integration, configuration)
Task Name
EMR
Implementation
Patient Information
Management
Laboratory
Pharmacy
Radiology Duration (days)
548 Start
Wed 12/14/16 Finish
Fri 1/18/19 65 Wed 12/14/16 Tue 3/14/17 65
87
100 Wed 3/15/17
Wed 6/14/17
Fri 10/13/17 Tue 6/13/17
Thu 10/12/17
Thu 3/1/18 GENERIC HOSPITAL
Imaging
Nutrition and Food
Service
Clinical Information
System
Epic Go-Live Test
(MHS, 2007) 13
17
24 Fri 10/13/17
Fri 3/2/18 Mon 11/6/17
Wed 4/4/18 190
(Does not include the
holidays)
60 Thu 4/5/18 Fri 1/18/19 Mon 1/21/19 Fri 4/12/19 The test environment that mirrors the live system will be created with a full set of
software and data files (California, 2016). As new modules and templates are implemented they
can safely be tested in this environment (California, 2016). Following Go-Live the testing
environment will serve as an area for troubleshooting, implementing new features and updates,
and creating scenarios for education in the future (California, 2016). Members of the management team will systematically test the EMR before live date
ensuring the system works effectively and efficiently. Testing of the system includes:
o Unit Testing ? verification that individual menus, templates, forms, etc., can be
accessed/displayed and/or printed and individual hardware devices are
operational;
o Component Testing ? verification that a system module logically flow and work
as intended;
o System Testing ? verification that all relationships between modules are in place
and functioning as intended. System testing confirms that all internal workflows,
handoffs, outputs and triggers are fully operational and effective;
o Integration Testing ? confirmation that all information flow and control processes
between the EHR system and external systems are working accurately. This
includes full evaluation of practice system interfaces including demographic
updates, billing charges, scheduling updates, etc.;
o Full Testing ? confirmation that the complete system performs as intended for all
internal and external uses (California, 2016). GENERIC HOSPITAL 14 Execution of testing will begin at the individual components of the system and build to
encompass multiple functioning components in a scenario (California, 2016). Generic Hospital,
its community clinics, and the PCP offices will have individual system checks as well as the link
between all areas integrated and configured. Utilization of a check-off sheet for system check
will verify that all areas of the system are functioning properly in test mode (California, 2016). A
series of deliberate errors will also be tested to verify system accuracy, efficiency and logic
capabilities. All errors and faults will be properly documented for troubleshooting and retesting
(California, 2016).
Contingency Manual processes for back up procedures include paper record keeping, results, ordering
and charting. Upon restoration of the EMR all information will be manually entered to
update the system; Off-site system and record back up allows systems to be recovered. Testing of the
recovery process will be performed prior to Go-Live.
Training
The training program will be divided into four phases, each with a designated goal of
achievement (The HCigroup, 2016). The phases for the training program are: planning and training
readiness (I), implementation of training deployment (II), post Go-Live stabilization; transition to live
end-user training support (III), and live end-user training support and user skill optimization (IV) (The
HCigroup, 2016). These phases may consist of long durations, but they are designed to better prepare the
organization as staff adapts and adjusts daily workflows to using the Epic EMR system (The HCigroup,
2016).
Phase I will share a significant amount of information with operational and IT stakeholders (The
HCigroup, 2016). This phase also includes educating future trainers, super users and end users on similar
information (The HCigroup, 2016). This initial phase is designed to expose the clinical and administrative
staff to how this new technology will be incorporated into their daily workflows and tasks (The GENERIC HOSPITAL 15 HCigroup, 2016). To move forward into Phase II, employees must demonstrate an understanding and
awareness for how the change will occur and impact the positions around them (The HCigroup, 2016).
Phase II consists of more interaction than Phase I (The HCigroup, 2016). Phase II begins with multiple
sessions known as train-the-trainer (The HCigroup, 2016). The end of this phase is determined when the
end users are capable of using Epic successfully on the job for the first time (The HCigroup, 2016).
Employees will learn items s...
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