Throughout your career in healthcare management, you will need to make and justify decisions. When there are many potential options and evaluating each option requires considering many factors, you should consider creating and using a rubric. Rubrics provide concrete criteria and guides for assessing each measure, enabling a straightforward, comprehensive evaluation. Rubrics also provide a valuable tool for justifying decisions to stakeholders by documenting the way decisions were made.
Given their centrality in the constellation of health information systems, guiding the selection of an appropriate EHR will be one of the most important contributions you can make to a healthcare organization. In this assignment, you will create a rubric for comprehensively evaluating EHRs.
Heads-Up: This rubric will support your Signature Assignment as a component of the system selection project phase.
To complete this assignment, address the following:
- Compile a list of criteria on which you will evaluate potential EHRs. Each criterion should include a short title and a 1 to 2-sentence description.
- Use the U.S. EMR Adoption Model (HIMSS, 2012 in Glandon, 2018) as a guide for developing criteria for levels of functionality in your rubric. You should have at least one criterion for each of the seven stages in the EMR Adoption Model.
- Find at least one scholarly reference on EHR’s impact on productivity and performance. Use this reference to develop one or two criteria addressing this area.
- Find at least one scholarly reference on usability and the amount of stress caused in healthcare providers related to EHR. Use the reference to develop one or two criteria addressing this area.
2· For each criterion, develop 1 to 2-sentence descriptions of meeting that criterion at levels of excellence, acceptable, and unacceptable.
3· Arrange your criteria in a Word document table, assigning point values to each criterion, with the total number of points being 100. Use the table below as a guide.
4· Include an introduction and summary to the assignment.
Table 1
EMR Adoption Model Rubric
| Criteria | Excellence | Acceptable | Unacceptable |
| Stage 2: Document Imaging
EHR should support scanning and including paper health documents for inclusion and reference in a patient record. |
5 Points
Documents can be scanned directly into the EHR or imported from other electronic sources. Multiple documents can be viewed directly in the EHR without requiring external software and can be exported in maximally compatible formats. |
3 Points
Documents can only be imported from external sources. Document viewing requires external software, or documents are impossible to view in parallel with other records. |
0 Points
Document imaging is not supported. |
Length: Minimum 2-3 pages, not including the title and references pages.
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.
