Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System

Tim Scott, Thomas Rundall, Thomas Vogt, John Hsu

• Section 1: Introduction. Section 2: The experience of implementation. Section 3: Accounting for successes and failures. Section 4: Barriers and facilitators to implementation. Section 5: Electronic medical record systems: lessons for implementation.

"The authors let physician survey findings and clinicians' constructive criticism speak for themselves. They then add commentary with scholarly detachment. They challenge conventional wisdom with fact-based recommendations based on analysis of convincing data and insightful anecdotes from practitioners...This "documentary" approach allows readers to sink into the experience and to understand issues more profoundly, beyond the hardware and software challenges." JAMA. 2008;300(13):1594-1595