Designed for the small to mid-sized physician practice, EHR Implementation: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Medical Practice, Second Edition, delivers successful implementation strategies that work. Field-tested EHR implementation tools, checklists, decision trees, job descriptions and workflow analyses are presented in this helpful resource.\This updated edition serves as a project management guide to help consultants, administrators and physicians navigate the evaluation, selection, negotiation and culture management transition to an electronic environment. It also highlights how to utilize the EHR to improve patient safety and communication and how to manage securely the health information exchange. Additional features include:\-Up-to-date standards and federal policies including the federal description of meaningful use incentives to keep physicians motivated and focused\-Paper to paperless strategies providing easy to understand practice management advice with steps supported by checklists and graphs\-Helpful tips to aid the user in identifying and managing productivity traps\-Upcoming standards and how they can impact the ability to use, exchange and extract data\-A valuable CD-ROM with helpful content including a meaningful use glossary and requirement table, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) qualifications and more!

Electronic health records : selection strategies -- Contract negotiation and vendor management -- Implementation : your paper to paperless data migration strategies -- Building the infrastructure -- Go-live planning -- Healthcare regulatory infrastructure in transition : standards that set the stage for health information technology exchange -- Meaningful use measures : impact on the practice -- Certification -- Return on investment.