Gaining End User Buy-In to Your EHR – Breakaway Thinking

This post is part of the Breakaway Thinking blog post series which is sponsored by Breakaway Learning Solutions, a Conduent Company. One of the universal truths about EHR software is that if you don’t get user buy-in, your EHR efforts will fail. You may even complete your EHR implementation, but not having user buy-in will wreak havoc on your ability to use the EHR to improve your organization. The failures may not be immediately apparent, but you can be sure your users will cause it to fail if they haven’t bought into the project. On the other hand, organizations that do get end user buy-in to their EHR generally see great results. The best way to ensure end user buy-in to EHR is through great leadership. This is highlighted in this whitepaper Leadership Insights: Gaining Value from Technology Investments, but what can leaders do to help create EHR buy-in with their organization? One key to ensuring organizational buy-in is to set clear goals. Ideally these goals are created collaboratively with your team. However, it is most important that your EHR goals are attractive to your end users. If the end users are interested and excited about the goals you’ve set for the EHR project, then they’re more likely to support the project. Plus, setting these goals gives the project an important guide when you’re faced with tough decisions. Not to mention these goals serve as the perfect way to evaluate the success or failure of the EHR post-implementation. ...
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