Class: Electronic Health Record Application Assignment: Develop a Proposal for an EHR You work for a large city hospital. In this hospital, there are: two primary care outpatient clinics (pediatrics a

Class: Electronic Health Record Application

Assignment: Develop a Proposal for an EHR

You work for a large city hospital. In this hospital, there are:

two primary care outpatient clinics (pediatrics and adult)
four specialty clinics (orthopedics, neurology, psychiatry, and ophthalmology)
300 inpatient beds
an in-house laboratory
a radiology department
a pharmacy

The hospital medical record consists of paper charts. The hospital wants to implement an EHR, and it is your job to develop a proposal to present to the hospital board.

Your proposal should cover the following:

Type of EHR (Turnkey or Best of Breed) and why, 1 page.
Functions the EHR will have and why, 2-4 pages.
Benefits that will be expected from implementation of this EHR proposal, 2-3 pages.

TOTAL: 5-8 pages.

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