For this assignment, you will assume  the role of the HIM director  who is serving on the facility’s committee to  choose our next EHR which  will be used across the health system – including  hospital, physician  offices, ER and outpatient services. The EHR Selection  Committee is  composed of the following members:

• (You,  the student) –Director of HIM
• Teresa  – Manager of Systems Integration
• Dave  – Director of Information Systems
• Tim-  Information systems analyst
• Rogene  – Manager of data security
• Elaine  – HIPAA privacy officer
• Linda-  VP nursing
• Maria  – Director of nursing operations
• Sharik  – Director of medical imaging
• Steve  – Director of laboratory services
• Rhonda  – VP of Information Systems Facilitation
• LaQuana  – VP of Financial Systems
• Hiba  – Director of Patient Accounts
• Trinette  – Director of Patient Access
• Taylor  – Director of Pharmacy
• Charmaine  – Manager of Emergency Department

Four vendors have provided written  material on their products and  are offering to provide live EHR demonstrations  to the committee and  our staff. They all have good reputations with other  providers. We know  that the vendors will focus on the “strengths” of  their particular  system, so to ensure our staff is prepared to obtain the most   information at the upcoming vendor demonstrations, the committee is  preparing  the EHR Inquiry Tool which is being stored in the table below  for convenience.
To guide completion of the EHR  Inquiry Tool, the committee reviews the ONC standards for EHR Products first.  Review the ONC (U. S. Office of the  National Coordinator) standards for inpatient EHR products. [Please refer specifically to the 2011  General Criteria (170.302) for analysis of the ONC standards.]
Your assignment is to 1) choose six  different committee members  for the first column and then 2) identify and  record a relevant  standard(s) from the ONC Standards for EHR Products resource  (above)  for that committee member in column two and finally, 3) record three   specific questions or inquiries that could be asked at the Vendor   Demonstrations to facilitate the selection of an EHR that will meet the   facility needs. Use the template below and save it as a Word document  to submit  to the dropbox.  Please be sure to use a  citation for the  ONC Standards for EHR Products resource.