The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has just published
The CIO's Guide to Implementing EHRs in the HITECH Era, an 80-page booklet aimed at assisting chief information officers and other IT executives in electronic health-record implementation and meeting the
meaningful-use requirements to qualify for federal health IT subsidies provided for under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
CHIME, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organization with some 1,400 members, noted that its latest guide evolved out of a similar publication, the
Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records (PDF), that it released this past July with the American Hospital Association.
The new guide contains information on the federal EHR subsidy program, assessing the subsidies and the costs of achieving meaningful-use requirements and offering tips on managing expectations and improving work flow as well as advice from CHIME members on effective implementation training.
