How can the goals be improved? and how can you monitor to determine if you met the goals?

-Your facility, Good Samaritan Hospital, is implementaing a new EHR. You are excited about the positive impact that the EHR will have on your organization. During the planning stage the hospital developed goals that it would like to accomplish with implementation. Administration has said that these goals are firm expectations for the team and system.

The goals of the system are to:

• Reduce HIM staff

• Reduce time required to access health information

• Inmprove quality of care

• Decrease the number of duplicate and unnecessary test

• Reduce the cost per case