E-Louisiana HIT Toolkit
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians (LAFP) and the LHIT Resource Center (LHIT) worked together to develop a comprehensive toolkit to help guide physicians through the process of adopting an electronic health record (EHR) and achieving Meaningful Use. The E-Louisiana HIT Toolkit is available to all members of the LAFP and LHIT courtesy of a grant awarded by the Physicians Foundation. The purpose of the toolkit is to simplify the process and guide physicians through the adoption of an EHR system for use in their clinical practice. Inside the E-Louisiana HIT Toolkit you will discover qualification and assessment wizards, guidance on working with the LHIT, tips on vendor selection and useful interactive worksheets to help guide you through EHR from inception to implementation.
Using an EHR assessment designed by DOQ-IT, we have developed an interactive EHR Toolkit Preparedness Assessment to help measure levels of preparedness and guide your practice through the Toolkit. The assessment is available in Microsoft Excel and is unprotected so clinical practices can make notes and customize. Answer each question to determine if you are "Not Prepared", "Moderately Prepared", or "Highly Prepared" in important areas of the EHR decision making process. The assessment contains direct hyperlinks in the areas within the toolkit that will provide necessary tools and guidance to help your practice move into the next level of preparedness and closer to EHR implementation. Click here to view and download the E-Louisiana EHR Preparedness Assessment. Please note that the link to the assessment may not upload with certain versions of Internet Explorer. If you have problems opening the file, please e-mail rleblanc@lafp.org to request a copy of the Preparedness Assessment.
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Preparation / Investigation. Preparation / Investigation helps the clinical practice create the blue prints for your EHR system. First we answer the question of “Why EHR” is important...
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Selection and Purchase. Once the blueprints are completed, the staff has been assess and workflow a workflow plan has been created, it is time to move on take the toolkit assessments and choose a vendor....
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Implementation. Everything you have done so far has come down to this – The Implementation. Why do some clinical practices experience successful transitions and others fail? It all comes down to preparation....
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Maintenance. Anything that is created or built will need to be maintained. In this section of the toolkit we will discuss security considerations, developing disaster recovery plans, and the basics of IT.
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Incentives and Assistance. Throughout the building process the clinical practice will have questions along the way, whether it is in regards to structuring an EHR system or finances. The incentives and assistance section starts with...
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Resources. The resources page helps to bring together any miscellaneous information and communications regarding EHR. Included it the resources section are important dates for CMS, glossary of acronyms and terms...
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