Good article with great tips on rolling out an EHR. The one comment made here that is so true is the fact that it is about people and not the computers. There has to be one 
captain of the ship and that is the one who drives the success or failure, as this person is the one who gets everyone else to buy in. Many seem to overlook the training portion of the process or view it as not important – how wrong can one be on this one. I have posted comments on this blog about nurses complaining about the doctors not wanting to train and in essence it makes their job harder. It is team work and everyone learns from everyone else.
It is work and required some new skills, but as I would tell everyone, these some skills will help you with other areas of the computer and Internet, so through using an EHR you will also grow in other areas as well. I have seen failures unfortunately too, mostly due to either lack of commitment or not wanting to change from old habits, and just overall fear. I have also seen practices buy 2 or 3 before they find the one they want, which is a little crazy, but at least they end up with something they can use in the end, as the commitment is there, but for whatever reason the first one or 2 was not a match. We have won the war on the fact that electronic medical records are better than paper, so it’s just a matter of time before everyone gets on the bandwagon in one form or another. So whatever your situation is, be sure to “buy in”. BD
Getting started isn't so simple when it comes to electronic health records, however. Close to 20 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed by the Medical Records Institute in 2007 either had uninstalled an EHR system or were in the process of doing so. The federal government estimates that the EHR failure rate tops 30 percent.
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