First of all, if you have been following along with our newsletter you understand that there are no ten steps (or five, pick a number) to "solving" any wicked problem (for new readers see here and here). Software selection is clearly a wicked problem and therefore does not lend itself to a linear process. The software selection problem is much more chaotic than what may be apparent on its face. Second, although an EHR implementation and your HITECH compliance initiative are closely intertwined, for reasons to be discussed in this article, we feel compelled to (once again) remind our readers that they are NOT one and the same thing.
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