EHR Vendor Selection - Planning and Due Diligence

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Noon to 12:45 PM CT

Overview

After you've done the work of assessing your organization's readiness for adopting an electronic health record (EHR) and planning for your workflow needs, the next step is to conduct a formal vendor selection process. A well planned approach to vendor selection will help ensure that you select the vendor with the right product and the right support to get you to meaningful use and enable you to use your EHR for enhancing care delivery. A formal vendor selection process helps ensure that you are making the right investment. This webinar will discuss the steps you need to take to:

• Identify the tasks to be performed in a vendor selection process
• Appreciate the importance of planning for vendor selection
• Prepare for the vendor selection process
• Ensure the use of objective process and selection criteria for selecting vendors

An EHR vendor selection process will be used for discussion purposes, but this process could be extended to almost any HIT acquisition.

Speaker

Greg Linden is currently the Chief Information Officer for Stratis Health.  He has been active in Minnesota’s eHealth Initiative, and is currently involved in helping communities move forward with electronic health information exchange.

Prior to coming to Stratis Health, Greg was in executive roles with United Health Group, Medtronic and Health Systems Integration.  He also worked at IBM for 13 years.

He holds a BSEE and an MBA from the University of Minnesota, and is a Certified Professional in both EHR and HIT (CPEHR and CPHIT).  He has spoken nationally on Health Information Exchange (HIE) and has been a regular guest lecturer on e-health at the Wharton School of Business.  He has also been a guest lecturer on IT Strategy and e-Health at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Recording Cost

You may order an MP3 and PDF of the slideshow for this webinar:

• FREE for clinics and hospitals registered with REACH (Code available for REACH registrants to enter in registration form - please contact webinar@khareach.org or (877) 331-8783 ext. 222 if you have not received your code.)
• $30 for all other participants