05 Jul Imagine you are working for a hospital implementing a new software application that integrates and interfaces with the hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) to improve healthcare quality, safety, or efficiency.
Imagine you are working for a hospital implementing a new software application that integrates and interfaces with the hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) to improve healthcare quality, safety, or efficiency.
Choose a topic to address with this software: suggestions for topics are listed below. Create a vendor evaluation matrix that can be used to evaluate multiple vendors of software that address the topic you choose.
For your evaluation matrix, create a list of a minimum of 10 criteria that you would like to evaluate for each software vendor. You should rank the criteria in the order of importance. Find two or three software vendors that can address your topic and evaluate them using your matrix. Some of the criteria you decide to evaluate may not be available on the vendor’s website. In this case, place an asterisk (*) next to the score if you need to complete the box without any source. Total the scores for each vendor, and summarize your evaluation. Include a reference list for any sources you use for the evaluation.
Possible topics (you may also search for topics in EHR vendor app stores, such as Cerner, Epic, Meditech):
Medication dosing
Medication automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs)
Medication syringe robots
IV workflow systems
Medical billing
Medical calculators
Controlled substance surveillance
Physician dictation
Patient education
Medical reference databases
Your vendor evaluation matrix should:
Address a healthcare topic involving quality, safety, or efficiency.
Include at least three possible vendors.
List a minimum of 10 criteria.
Assign a weight or priority to each of the criteria.
Score all of the criteria based on what you find online.
Total the scores for each vendor.
Include a summary with background on the topic and an explanation of how this improves healthcare quality, safety, or efficiency.
Include a statement of data integration that explains how your topic’s software application will work together with the hospital’s EHR and the process of protecting sensitive information from damage, loss, or corruption.
Include a discussion of why the three most highly weighted criteria were ranked this way.
Include a recommendation for which software vendor should be chosen and what led to this decision.
Include references to support any statements made.
