EMR as a Tool to Support Strategy

This paper was drafted by the team that developed the Essentia EMR over the last two years. The purpose of this paper is to share some of the thinking behind the development and to raise some issues that we believe are critical when an organization is thinking through how they want an EMR to fit into their business strategy. Making the decision about what kind of an EMR most appropriately matches the future needs of an organization is incredibly difficult. It appears that most organizations don't really get what they had hoped for, as it is most typical that . . .