Electronic Health Records

The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has many goals, one of which is to modernize health care information technology (HIT) and implement a national electronic health information infrastructure. The Certification Commission of Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has developed certification criteria and has certified health information technology systems.

Hospitals and physicians must implement electronic health records (EHR) to be part of the national infrastructure and be eligible for incentives. Providers will be paid for adoption of EHR technology only after demonstrating they are a “meaningful user” of “certified EHR technology.”

As a provider, your compliance can not only qualify you for the stimulus funding, but also strengthen your patient care processes and promote efficient care delivery. BKD IT Risk Services (ITRS) can help. We offer the following services.

EHR Readiness Assessment

Provides assistance developing an EHR gap analysis and defining related projects to achieve implementation goals. Includes the following:

ARRA reimbursement analysis
IT and infrastructure inventory
EHR assessment
Security assessment
EHR project charter

Needs Assessment

Aids in assembling and evaluating system requirements for EHR technology solutions.

EHR market education
Systems requirements document
Work flow analysis and design
Creation of Request for Information and/or Proposal to software vendors

System Selection

Provides assistance to identify and evaluate an EHR compliant HIT solution.

Demonstration scorecards—basis for purchase decisions
Agreement analysis
Total cost of ownership—three-year estimates which include software, equipment and implementation fees

Project Management Assistance

Helps facilitate management of selected software vendor and internal resources. Follows Project Management Institute standards and methodology and includes:

Project team
Project management plans
Detail work plans
Status reports
Budgets

Cindy Boyle

Partner

IT Risk Services

Cindy Boyle

Partner

IT Risk Services

Financial Services, Not-for-Profit & Government, Inf, Comm & Entertainment

400 W. Capitol Avenue, Suite 2500

P.O. Box 3667

Little Rock, AR 72203-3667 (72201)

Little Rock
501.372.1040

Ronald Hulshizer

Senior Managing Consultant

Ronald Hulshizer

Senior Managing Consultant

Financial Services

Two Leadership Square South Tower

211 N. Robinson Avenue, Suite 600

Oklahoma, City, OK 73102-9421

Oklahoma City
405.842.7977

Matthew Lathrom

Managing Consultant