Valley View Hospital System Valley View Hospital System serves a population of about 200,000

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Valley View Hospital System Valley View Hospital System serves a population of about 200,000. The main campus hospital has 120 beds, and the other has 100 beds. Both hospitals use the same health information systems vendor, Cerner for some of the systems but do not have a complete EHR system and are not networked to exchange patient data. Those systems are somewhat old and include registration, nursing notes, medication administration, and physician order entry. Other ancillary systems, such as the clinical laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary, are different in each hospital (some from Cerner and some from other vendors). Maintenance and Information System personnel costs for the disparate systems are unreasonably high, because the hospital system cannot capitalize on economies of scale. Information is not readily accessible for analysis for either business purposes or evaluation of quality of care. Strategically, the hospital knows that it must eliminate these information systems problems to provide quality care and to operate all its facilities efficiently and effectively. The first step toward meeting its strategic objectives is to develop an information system strategic plan. By now, you have familiarized yourself with Valley View Hospital System and even analyzed its status in terms of health IT. This week, you learn that the complete EHRs the system has been considering are EPIC, Cerner, and McKesson. You also learn that the hospitals are juggling with the idea of acquiring several physician practices in the area. Last, you are told that the hospital is seeking to most cost-effective alternative. Considering this new information, this week your team will focus on the following tasks. Develop at least 4 key SMART goals that reflect the vision of this facility. Expand by how the implementation of a full EHR would contribute to achieving these goals. Identify some of the processes that are most likely to be in place at this facility, given the current systems (which you analyzed in week 1). Identify some key aspects that are likely to change with the implementation of an EHR (despite which system is selected). Given the mixture in staff (many have been doing their work the same way for 30 years and some have started using Open Notes and e-prescribing in the last couple of years) prepare a communication plan for changes that are about to come to this organization.