Do Away With The It-clinician Gap: Here's How

By Author: Nancy Rose
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You can spend stimulus cash on a new healthcare IT support system, but if you don't bring your staff onboard, you stand to lose out on a lot of money. If you don't want to let your money go down the drain, you need to act fast.


Engaging your staff in the process will help you glide past implementation speed bumps.


What you should look to avoid: At the April Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Chicago, Linda Reed, RN, MBA, VP/CIO of Atlantic Health in Morris Plains N.J, said that across all sectors, 40 per cent of IT projects meet with failure or are abandoned. Most of the time, failure occurs due to inadequate project management process or improper alignment with the organization's culture.


Following the ensuing strategies will help you bring IT, vendors, and staff closer.


Gauge your staff's readiness


According to Reed, assessing your staff's readiness to transition to a new technology is indeed a code word for gauging resistance. ...
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Secondly give clinicians a voice - and a choice


Most of the time, upgrades that boost care and cut costs breed new sets of problems, particularly at the outset.


But you need to watch out for the following: Introducing a new technology can create new work for some employees and redistribute work for others, complicate the workflow, slow clinical execution, and strain schedules and budgets. As such, you need to show employees that you understand their challenges and are ready to work with them to meet common goals.


Thirdly, you should let clinicians drive process redesign.


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