Many healthcare professionals rely on health information technology (health IT) to provide quality care to their patients.

Many healthcare professionals rely on health information technology (health IT) to provide quality care to their patients. It is crucial to ensure patient safety while using and communicating information in a health IT-enabled environment. Continuous assessment of electronic health records (EHRs) will ensure that the EHRs are implemented using best practices. For this assignment, imagine you are a health informatics director. You are going to complete the Safer Self-Assessment tool, which will give you and your stakeholders an accurate snapshot of the organization’s EHR status in terms of safety. Assignment: EHR Evaluation Unit Outcomes addressed in this assignment: Recommend key strategies that can lead to the success or failure of an implementation. Evaluate a health IT implementation. Examine areas of improvement following a health IT implementation. Course Outcome addressed in this assignment: HI580-3: Plan a solution to a health information technology problem.