Tips for implementing EHR: Roles and Responsibilities

John Halamka, MD, MS, offers some sage advice to help your EHR implementation go as smoothly as possible: clearly outline roles and responsibilities.

To wit:

When implementing large, complex projects, adding extra details like a roles and responsibility matrix prevent future problems. Assumptions can get teams into trouble. Well documented understandings keep everyone friendly. I hope you find it useful.

Need a starting point? Dr. Halamka shares his roles and responsibilities matrix.