Making the Rounds
Cahill: Obviously, if you get into an environment where you de-emphasize charts, I think it’s going to make it potentially easier for staff to move throughout the hospital and to get their work done. What you find in many of these hospitals is from an infrastructure standpoint. [Getting] hospitals wired and connected in the proper way is a huge undertaking, and many hospitals have not gotten that part of their closet cleaned, as it were, to be ready to move forward with it. You also have to change the entire mentality of your staff and how they do things. ... Not that it can’t be done, but that it’s going to take a while to train your staff on where you’re going with that. ... One of our approaches with this is...looking at hospitals as each department being its own account. ... You have to be able to deal with each of these departments independently and know what they want and how they want it, because there’s never a consistency throughout the entire enterprise and certain areas of a hospital are quicker to move toward the technology of e-forms [than others].