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EHR Governance, Change Management and What Keeps Me Up at Night. Bud Garrison MBA, CPHIMS Director, Clinical Informatics Oregon Health & Science University October 17, 2014 Objectives • Review how OHSU’s EHR Governance has changed over time. • Review OHSU’s project intake and prioritization process • Explore a current Change Management process that supports data integrity and clinical compliance • Discuss emerging HIM issues in a fully integrated EHR and statewide HIE. • Try and Smile a little! Overview Implementation Governance Projects Future Introductions! Bud Garrison MBA, CPHIMS Healthcare Informatics Work = 20+ years in system implementation, process improvement, clinical workflow and clinical outcomes reporting. Clinical Background = Periop Administration, Surgical Technician, Emergency Medical Technician x 8 yrs What I am not….. OHSU • Oregon’s only Academic Medical Center • Level 1 Trauma Center • 2 Hospitals – 572 Beds • 70+ Clinics • 28 Locations • 14,000 Employees • 2,200 Providers • 2,849 Students • 1 Tram! Implementation • • • • 251,033 Patients/Year 876,553 Visits 31,513 IP Stays 88% patients from Oregon • 48% of IP patients from Outside Portland Metro • 1/3 of hospitalized patients are uninsured or underinsured ** Governance Projects Future And YES, YOU CAN VALET YOUR BIKE AT THE BASE OF THE TRAM! OHSU’s EMR Implementation Started 2005 • Completed 60+ Clinics in 2008 • Staged Inpatient Project 2008 – CPOE – Nursing Documentation – CPM – Peds CPOE Stats: 14,000 PCs 3500+ concurrent users 96% BCMA Compliance 85% CPOE Since Go-Live • Monitor integration • Oncology • Lab Integration • Periop Integration • Transplant Module • Optimize all clinics X2 • CEI (Opthamology) Integration • BCBA, BCMA • Magnet • Data Warehousing Informatics Focus Pilot Users, Needs, Standards and Clinic Templates Pilot Does this Thing Work? Help Users Meet the Standard. “Parking Lot” for Customizations Roll Out “Get Them Live!” Empty the Parking Lot! Clinic and User Satisfaction Optimization of Clinics and Users Reduce the complexity for the users. OHSU System Standardization and Process Improvement Implement Optional Modules. System Stability Systems Focus Stage 7 – Fully Implemented EMR Governance – Where We Started Initial Governance Principles/Challenges • Use existing structures if possible • Involve clinical stakeholders • I.T. driven project so I.T. leads governance Challenges: • Fast moving project – Slow moving Governance • Clinical representatives didn’t understand informatics issues • Compliance not EMR trained or included in many decisions • Too many disparate groups not tied to clinical work, too many decisions, no one knew where to take an issue! EMR Governance – What Happened So, Now what… What do we need to manage changes in a complex system • • • • • Clinical areas should own the process not ITG/Informatics! Subject matter based groups that can evaluate changes for STANDARDIZATION! Move away from changes for individual users Quick, efficient decisions Have the right people at the table • Workflow • I.T. Builders • Clinicians • Clinical Operational Support • Billing • Compliance • Leadership • EMPOWER SMALLER GROUPS TO MAKE DECISIONS – • Have the right people at the table to bring issues up through other groups based on system impact How do Decisions get made? Design = CM and Regulatory Groups then Build with I.T. Groups BUILD Build Unless it is a bad decision……. BUILD Build Work and Project Intake Process • “Fix-it” Tickets – Epic Support desk – About 40% of our effort – Must Do Work – Must Not Do work – User education on workflows • Project Work – – – – – Patient Safety Improvements Workflow optimization Compliance/regulatory Quality improvements New Modules Project Prioritization – 1st Step Align with Clinical I.T. Strategic Initiatives Project Prioritization – 2nd Step Calculate Prioritization Score Project Prioritization – 3rd Step Collect More Data to Resource/Schedule Project • • • • • • • • • • • Benefits In Scope / Out of Scope Business Sponsor Project Manager Lead Work Unit Participating Work Units Program Estimated Work Effort Desired Start date “Let’s get real” Start Date Desired Go Live Based on this data the Resource groups assigns resources and sets project schedule “The List” At the moment: 100+ Clinical Projects What keeps me up at night? • HIE, Data Exchange is Now so Fast! – – – – What happens when we get patients mixed up? Labs resulted to wrong patient, etc Now automatically exchanged with other institutions. How do we fix this when it goes wrong? • EMR driving clinical/operational best practices not the other way around. • In an environment with 20,000+ charting tools and now MDs building more every day, how do we ensure complaince? • DOWNTIME and Recovery! • Integration of patient reported data – – – • How do we reduce risk to the organization? Who monitors and follows up? What happens if we miss something? Medical Home and the push for quality metrics over coding? What roles do HIM professionals play in this new environment? Bud Garrison MBA, CPHIMS Director, Clinical Informatics Oregon Health & Science University [email protected] 503-494-7542 The vision of the Clinical Informatics Department is to realize the full benefits of OHSU’s clinical information systems. The department will apply the science of informatics to enable excellence in patient care, to educate learners, and to advance the methods of applied informatics.