If you are migrating to a new EHR or are considering a migration, there are five myths that will cause chaos throughout your organization. This presentation is part of a series the delves into each myth, the chaos it causes and what can be done to eliminate it.

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Eliminate the Chaos in Your EHR Migration
Myth #4: “All the data that is moved
will be accurate.”

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The massive undertaking of a migration presents
challenges to:
• Hospital operations
• Clinical staff workflow
• Processes for clinicians to document care
• Maintaining a healthy revenue cycle
EHR Migration Challenges

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A close working relationship with:
• Multiple departments and clinical stakeholders
• Your EHR vendor
• Internal resources
• Third party consultants
• Interface and archive vendors
Requirements for migration

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• “Don’t move legacy data – start new in our system.”
• “We’ll handle moving all your data with interfaces.”
• “Manual data entry is good training for your staff.”
• “All the data that is moved will be accurate.”
• “In the end you will have the advantage of a single
system.”
The Five Myths to Avoid

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• Your migration will cost more
• Your migration will take longer than expected
• Your migration will cause chaos within your
organization
Dangers of believing the Five Myths

6. Myth #4: “All the data that is moved
will be accurate.”

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• Responsibility for accuracy is shared between vendor
and the hospital
• The system must be built correctly
• Data must be properly structured
• Loading data prior to the completion of the system
creates problems
• Not easily identified
• Users are not familiar with the new system
• Error reporting is complex
Factors affecting accuracy

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• Understaffed?
• Lack of experience with the new system?
• Overworked?
• Build mistakes create errors
• Compounded by problems obtaining and cleaning data from
legacy systems
• Hundreds of interfaces required
Your integration team

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• One hospital’s manual conversion generated 300 data
integrity alerts
• Without a data quality process in place the errors were
not easily determined
• Clinical staff became wary of the new system
• Adoption was in jeopardy
Example of downstream issues

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• Another hospital used automation platform, Boston
WorkStation and Active Data Quality to migrate patient
data
• The clinical staff found an error during a medication
reconciliation
• The error was quickly identified and isolated
• The staff was satisfied the data in their system was
accurate
Another example

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True story
“Maine Med’s go-live last December of its estimated $160 million EHR
system seemed at first to go off without a hitch. But four months later,
the hospital network’s CIO, Barry Blumenfeld, MD, was out of a job
and, in an April 24 letter to employees, Maine Medical Center
President and CEO Richard W. Petersen announced a hiring freeze, a
travel freeze – and a delay in the further rollout of the EHR throughout
the rest of MaineHealth.”
Healthcare IT News

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• Has created order from chaos for thousands of
customers
• Automation platform, Boston WorkStation is the
proven solution for fast and accurate data migration
• Works within your time, safety and cost constraints
Boston Software Systems

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• Performs just as a person would
• Many times faster than a person could
• With 100% accuracy
• With no additional staffing
• Easily fits in your migration budget
Boston WorkStation

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• Eliminates the concern over data quality
• Eliminates the expense of additional staffing
• Eliminates the burden and risk of having clinical staff
search in multiple systems or capture information at
admission
• Standardizes the migration process
• Keeps the migration on time, under budget
• Aides in the adoption of the new system
Boston WorkStation

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• Read the complete white paper: Eliminate the Chaos –
Five Myths to Avoid in Your EHR Migration
• Visit www.slideshare.net/bossoftsys to view
presentations on each of the five myths to avoid in
your EHR migration
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