STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1. Describe the process of migration to an electronic health record (EHR) from organizational strategy, planning, analysis of EHR options, decision-making techniques, training, and implementation strategies.

  2. Write a Request For Information /Request For Proposal using stated criteria.

  3. Discuss the migration path from organization strategy to implementation, including meaningful use criteria for a given case study.

  4. Analyze an established EHR system using criteria using meaningful use criteria.

  5. Evaluate EHR systems to select an EHR most appropriate to an organization and clinical setting.

  6. Discuss the importance and use of clinical decision support systems for clinical and administrative use.

  7. Demonstrate understanding of data architecture, data sets, data repositories, data standards, data types and data dictionaries.

  8. Configure the simulated EHR system to achieve features required for meaningful use, including screen design/view, data entry templates, implementation of clinical decision support rules, alerts, and reminders, building of order sets, implementation of medication favorites, generate quality reports and metrics, and capture the highest quality data.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I. Migrating to the EHR

 II. RFP/RFI process

 III. EHR implementation in specific settings

 IV. Meaningful use – practical implementation

 V. Evaluation of systems and selection for an organization and a clinical setting

 VI. Clinical decision support (CDS)

 VII. Data infrastructure

 VIII.System configuration for meaningful use