Vol. XIII, No. 5Archive > May, 2012

Further Along Than I Thought We Were

We've cleaned up massive amounts of data and cut a month off the go-live date for our new EMR system.

Annette Saylor, RN, CNOR, CRNFA

I arrive at my hospital each morning with conflicting goals. Do I meet the OR budgetary and financial benchmarks that I've worked so hard to reach for the last 2 years, or do I move the electronic medical records implementation forward full speed so we're on schedule with our go-live date of Sept. 17? Yes, I've still got a surgical department to run, but I'm moving the EMR project forward because the timeline we set up waits for no one.

 
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