Tool 7.3: Timeline for IHA EHR Transition

Way before
Go-Live

  Process Assessment

  • Assess Charting process
  • Begin chart abstraction process using Internet Chart Abstraction Tool (ICAT)
  • Documentation of paper workflows
3 Month Before
Go-Live

  Kickoff

  • Kickoff meeting: all office staff attending
  • Perform pre-implementation assessment
6 Weeks before
launch

  Team Meetings

  • Begin weekly team meeting
  • Project Manager to drive meetings and allocate team resources to tasks as needed
  • Develop new electronic workflows 
  • Train superusers
2 Weeks before
Go-Live

  Trainer

  • Train physicians
  • Utilize training database (copied from live data every 2 weeks)
1-2 Weeks before
Go-Live

  Trainer or Implementation Manager (IM)

  • Train staff
  • Super users walk through workflow
  • Workflow adjustments made
Go-Live
1st week

  Trainer or Implementation Manager (IM)

  • Trige Nurses go live
  • Tasking Physician Champion
Go-Live
2nd week

  Trainer or Implementation Manager (IM)

  • Physician tasking
  • Physician Champion doing labs
  • MA's live with vital signs
Go-Live
3rd week

  Trainer or Implementation Manager (IM)

  • Physician-all labs
  • MA/nurse visits (Coumadin visits, BP checks)
  • Push charges, charge capture
Go-Live
4th week

  Trainer or Implementation Manager (IM)

  • Medication module (ePrescribing)
Go-Live
5th week

  Trainer or Implementation Manager (IM)

  • Tighten up workflows
  • Weekly workflow meetings continue