The adoption of health information technology (HIT) has become a national priority, but the majority of healthcare providers still have not made much progress toward that goal. While the significant HIT incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 have addressed the primary barrier to technology adoption—the financial investment required—and encouraged many physician groups and hospitals to quickly adopt technologies such as ambulatory electronic health records (EHR),the degree of change required to implement enterprise-wide HIT still deter many.
This white paper examines the change management techniques employed by a number of pioneering healthcare organizationsto achieve the successful adoption of advanced forms of HIT, including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and EHR systems.
