Using SMART Goals to Set Effective Goals for EHR and Other HIT Projects

“If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”  This old saw is particularly relevant to HIT initiatives. Too often clinics and small hospitals start acquiring or implementing technology without figuring out why they need it or what they expect the technology to do.

To help prevent the Ready, Fire!, Aim syndrome, this webinar will review methods for how to set goals that will provide the guidelines for successful HIT projects.  Listeners will learn how to set Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based goals.  We’ll also provide examples of how completing a SMART Goal exercise helped later phases of EHR projects run more smoothly.

Objectives

• Understand why SMART goal setting is important.
• Write specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-based goals.
• Understand priority areas where you should write SMART goals for your EHR implementation or optimization.

Who Should Attend

Administrators, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs/IT staff, DoN/nursing staff, physicians/providers and project managers.

Speaker

Joe Kalaidis, CPHIT is an HIT Consultant with the Regional Extenstion Assistance Center for HIT (REACH).  Joe's work with REACH includes assisting clients in selecting and utilizing Electronic Health Records in order to qualify for the Meaningful Use incentives as well as outreach for new REACH clients. Prior to REACH, Joe's positions have included IT Director, in which he led a consortium of clinics in selecting an EHR, sales and account management for major EHR vendors, plus health IT application development and support positions going back farther than Joe cares to admit.

Recording Cost

Free for clinics and hospitals with a signed letter of agreement (enter code in registration form - if you have an SLA and do not have a code, please contact info@khareach.org). $30 per telephone line for other participants.

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