Ambulatory Practice Management at Adventist Health

Alan Soderblom, Vice President & CIO, Loretta Sloan, Vice President of Operations, and Jennifer Stemmler, IT Director, Ambulatory Clinical Information Systems, Adventist Health.  In May 2012, Adventist Health System began the journey to transition its outpatient clinics from paper to electronic documentation and workflows using Cerner’s Practice Management and Ambulatory EHR solutions.  Adventist Health explores the EHR implementation strategy used with providers to support rapid ambulatory clinic growth in a large multi-region health system in order to reach operational standard goals.  A strategy was developed that aligns the Ambulatory Practice Management implementation with the clinical documentation transition.  They also describe key drivers for success, engaging physician leadership and applying a standard approach when implementing this large a change which have been the recipe for success. This teleconference is part of the SI-Cerner Users Collaborative.