Successful Implementation of Electronic Health Essay

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From personal experience it is clear that including the healthcare professionals' feedback in each of the five phases of the SDLC model leads to systems that better align to patient's needs and streamline information delivery and knowledge management. Personal experiences have provided a unique glimpse of how powerful this dynamics is when done well with full inclusion of stakeholders. In the majority of instances however stakeholders are often ignored or only provided what the healthcare systems can deliver with little if any customization or configuration (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin, Blumenthal, 2011). This is because customization and configuration is expensive and time-consulting to complete and is one of the leading causes of nurses being ignored during each phase of the SDLC model (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin, Blumenthal, 2011). When this occurs a system fails to align to an organization and a significant amount of time and money are wasted.

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In the first phase of the SDLC Model, which is Requirements Analysis, is when a systems' functional specifications are defined and the system development frameworks are designed (Moore, Nolan, Gillard, 2006). When nurses aren't involved in this process, the entire foundation of a system will be incomplete and often based only on assumptions about what is needed; the system designers won't actually know what the requirements are because they haven't involved healthcare professionals. The rationalization sit hat inviting too much feedback from nurses will drive up customization costs (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin, Blumenthal, 2011). In fact the opposite is true. Building the functional requirements and specifications of nursing professionals into requirements ensures each succeeding stage of the SDLC-driven development stays consistent.

The second stage of the SDLC model, which is design, is critical for ensuring a high degree of system adoption in that.....

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