Writing Homework Help

As a Health Informatics professional, your organization would like to adopt a new Electronic Health Record System, there are many vendors around, your supervisor asked you to survey a set of criteria to evaluate a candidate Electronic Health Record System Vendor.

You read the following article (make sure to read this prior to posting).

McDowell, S.W., Wahl, R., and Michelson, J. (2003). Herding cats: The Challenges of EMR vendor selection. Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 17(3), 63-71. Download McDowell, S.W., Wahl, R., and Michelson, J. (2003). Herding cats: The Challenges of EMR vendor selection. Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 17(3), 63-71.

For the article, Herding cats, read and review the Appendix: Criteria for Evaluation of Electronic Medical Record System Vendors.

For this discussion, you will be working in your project groups. This is meant to encourage discussion on health information technology selection criteria to include in your final project.

Instructions:

• RANK the seven categories listed in the order of importance you would give them.
• Why/How did you choose #1? (maximum of 1 paragraph)