1. What are your thoughts on implementing eMAR and BMV concurrently? We
do not currently have either system in place and need to know whether to implement separately or concurrently. We implemented eMAR and BV concurrently with the thought that it would be easier and more cost/time effective to train once than twice. BV safety measures to eMAR that cannot be discounted. 2. How long did the dictionary building/changing take once Meditech enabled the BMV system? Dictionary training/building/testing took us about 7 months, keeping in mind there are three of us on the team sharing a 1.0FTE. We had dictionary training in January and our Pilot go LIVE was October 6, 2005. 3. What departments were members of your Core implementation group? IS, Nursing, and Pharmacy 4. How long did training take for the Core group? For house-wide training? The Core group had three days of dictionary training at Meditech. House-wide training was done in 4-hour classes. Pilot team members were trained in advance of, and assisted in, the training of the rest of the staff. 5. What was the time frame of implementation - for first stages of planning to full implement? From Meditech install of BMV to full implementation? Planning was initiated in late 2004; full go LIVE was November 1, 2005. 6. What was the staffing requirements/allowance for building and implementation? For going live? Informatics team members were allotted extra hours for building/testing/training. For go LIVE, Informatics and Pilot team members were allotted extra hours to provide staff support 24/7 and patient-nurse ratio was significantly decreased. We also found that increasing the variance for med administration from 30 to 60 minutes greatly reduced staff anxiety. Holly A. Hoskinson,RN Clinical Informatics Island Hospital Anacortes,WA switchboard:(360)299-1300 cell:(360)333-3730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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