PPV: Ensure your place at the EHR decision-making table
HIM Connection, September 23, 2008
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There are leaders and there are followers. And during the labor-intensive process of an EHR implementation, this couldn’t be more true.
So where does this leave the HIM director?
In an ideal position to assert his or her change management and leadership skills, says Leslie Fox, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, CEO of Care Communications, Inc., in Chicago. "We’re living in a time of such dramatic and profound change from the paper to the electronic record," Fox says. "It’s beyond mind-boggling when you think about the amount of change. Change is all about leadership." And the HIM director is responsible for spearheading that change, Fox says.
"Not all of these [EHR] projects are successful the first time around. I think that when they’re not successful, it’s a failure of leadership," she says.
Editor’s note: For more information on leadership skills and to purchase a copy of this article for $10, visit www.hcpro.com/content/218328.cfm. Subscribers to Medical Records Briefing have access to this article in the October issue.
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