EMR Readiness & Planning

If you don’t know where you are going—any road will do. But if you are seeking ARRA funding, you will have little time for errors in meeting the timelines to receive maximum funding.

Hayes helps our clients prepare for meeting meaningful use criteria through our readiness assessment and pre-implementation planning services.  We provide a suite of services to ensure you have the right people and strategies in place. At Hayes we know:

• Technology implementations are hard—most likely you will implement a new EHR or practice management system very seldom in your career. Our consultants have been doing this daily for an average of more than 15 years. With this deep expertise, Hayes consultants can actually reduce your overall project budget since you won’t have to reinvent the wheel as you learn the new technology.
• People and process changes are even more challenging than merely implementing the technology. Hayes consultants bring deep expertise in change management and care redesign so that you can be assured that your investment in the new technology actually results in real benefits to your patients and your organization.
• Point of care applications are not like implementing back office business systems. Poorly implemented EHR and PM systems can have a negative and serious impact on patient safety and revenue.  With Hayes consultants on site, you can have peace of mind knowing that you have a team of experts focused on protecting your interests, making sure you get it right the first time.

Through our readiness assessment and pre-implementation planning services, Hayes ensures that our clients are on the road to receive maximum ARRA/HITECH stimulus funding. Our services address the following areas:

• Project Vision, Goals and Guiding Principles so that you have the momentum to sustain your project and a consensus regarding the desired benefits.
• Project Governance to ensure you have the organizational support to accomplish your goals, and the right people making timely decisions with the right information.
• Model Workflows so that you don’t just automate existing practices but actually design your system to improve care delivery or business practices. We incorporate outcomes and performance reporting from the onset.
• Project Financial Modeling to make sure that you have the funding needed for your entire project and don’t need to cut corners because of unanticipated costs.
• Clinical Adoption Plans to identify the right physician leaders who can shepherd the project and ensure physician engagement and effective change management.
• Project Approach and Phasing to guide you through the many choices regarding which functionality to deploy and in which order to ensure you are able to most expeditiously meet your goals. We can also provide guidance around project staffing and the resource skills sets you’ll need to meet your timeline.
• Benefits Realization Metrics so that you meet ARRA guidelines for clinical outcomes reporting and your project delivers the benefits expected.
  

If you would like us to help develop or review your existing plans, please call us today!