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Toward a Model of Successful Electronic Health Record Adoption

. . . a model to achieve the goals and benefits of EHR integration.
In recent times, authors have repeatedly highlighted the inherent problems of not attending to the "people needs" relative to the implementation of clinical system components (Golden 2006; Leatt et al. 2006; Studer 2005). Those chronicling implementation experiences (Golden 2006; Lapointe and Rivard 2005; Strating et al. 2006) have stressed the overwhelming importance of clinical leadership and ownership of EHR initiatives. Clinical teams should partner with IT, but ultimately drive EHR initiatives - these are not IT projects and should have clinical ownership and broad participation from the outset. For details Click here.

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