Quality Outcomes Reporting: Leveraging data to improve quality, reimbursement, and potential for compliance

Evolution Takes Practice

Evolution Takes Practice


What steps are needed for your practice to evolve?

A butterfly must go through four stages of evolution before it can take flight. Similarly, an EMR implementation is a journey, marked by milestones that require time, planning and commitment.

During this webinar, Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP discusses the EMR implementation journey and best practices to overcome the challenges associated with each stage. Dr. Zaroukian discusses how applying Six Sigma and Change Management methodologies can help realize positive outcomes-in a business where positive outcomes are critical.

This webinar took place on August 2, 2006. Please click here view the recorded event.
     
Brochure cover   Journal Article: Benefiting from Ambulatory EHR Implementation:
Solidarity, Six Sigma, and Willingness to Strive
This article is reprinted with permission of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
     
CCHIT Logo   GE Centricity® Electronic Medical Record, a well recognized comprehensive electronic health record (EHR), received certification from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM) for Ambulatory EHR 2006.
     
   



More about the Speaker

Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PHD, FACP

Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PHD, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine
Michigan State University

Dr. Zaroukian received his M.D. at MSU's College of Human Medicine and his Ph.d. in Microbiology/Immunology from Mishigan State University. He completed his internal medicine residency and was a postdoctoral immunology fellow at MSU. Dr. Zaroukian's current areas of research interest include medical education, information technology and informatics, internal medicine curriculum development, and web-based education and evaluation systems in medical education.

Dr. Zaroukian served as Program Director for the MSU Internal Medicine Residency Program from 1995-2002, during which time he was a Councilor of the Association of Program Director of the MSU Clinical Center Internal Medicine Clinic, and serves as the EMR Medical Director.