EHR Resource Planning Introduction

You have just signed a contract to implement an electronic health record (EHR) at your organization. You have selected your vendor and understand that this implementation is a partnership and that the vendor’s team will be there to lead your organization through the process. In order to start the project, the vendor suggests that you staff your team according to their Roles and Responsibilities (R&R) matrix. Based on the vendor's R&R matrix, you feel that you have most of the staff in-house and will be able to start the project within the next month. This is a common scenario that healthcare organizations encounter in an EHR project. Unless you define the staffing requirements for the implementation as well as long term support, you put the entire process at risk.

This series of articles will discuss how to define your resources for implementation, outline the work for each resource, define project schedules, and present the operational plan for long term support.