Electronic medical record (EMR) deployments are not about technology. They are about equipping organizations to reach critical business objectives by providing people with technical capabilities that make new things possible and by engaging people in changing their behavior to effectively use the new capabilities to generate results. This book will show you how to create an environment for success in your organization to not only ensure that your EMR implementation effort is successful but that your organization builds change capacity and flexibility in the process. This new nimbleness will serve you well in our world of continual change.

Despite the promise of improving care and other benefits, EMR implementations are highly disruptive to the organization.. This book will show you how to create an environment for success in your organization to not only ensure that your EMR implementation effort is successful but that your organization builds change capacity and flexibility in the process. This new nimbleness will serve you well in our world of continual change.

Effective Strategies for Change is a newly revised edition of HIMSS' bestseller Change Management Strategies for an Effective EMR Implementation. Published in 2009, Change Management Strategies prepared readers to lead or participate successfully in change management/technology adoption efforts to achieve meaningful use of EMRs. The authors provided successful strategies to plan and implement change-based on their decades of combined experience managing the people side of implementation. This revised edition explores how healthcare has changed since the first edition was published. It equips readers with the tools to create an environment for success in their organizations that not only ensures EMR, ICD-10 or clinical integration efforts are successful, but that organizations can build change capacity and flexibility in the process. The authors provide concepts and methodologies applicable to both large and small healthcare organizations, as well as lessons learned from healthcare stakeholders who utilized tactics from the first edition in their organizations' EMR implementations.

Despite the promise of improving care and other benefits, EMR implementations are highly disruptive to the organization.. This book will show you how to create an environment for success in your organization to not only ensure that your EMR implementation effort is successful but that your organization builds change capacity and flexibility in the process. This new nimbleness will serve you well in our world of continual change.

Offers a real-world, pragmatic guide designed to help emergency department managers efficiently which handle the many complex issues that arise in this challenging clinical environment. This title delivers practical solutions to virtually any problem that may arise in running an emergency department or acute care center.

This updated third edition edition of a popular text on change management guides readers through the technological, organizational and people-oriented strategies that managers use to implement change. Revised to include power and politics, culture and gender, the authors have also added international case studies that set change management within the context of globalization. Change Management provides readers with frameworks for applying different models of change to different scenarios; offers proactive approaches to change that relate to business performance and gives practical, step-by-step guidance on handling change. Undergraduate and post graduate students as well as practitioners who use this book will gain a greater understanding of how best to approach and manage complex change situations.