EHR Implementation Stakeholder Register
This is a practical guide to building a stakeholder register for an ehr implementation project — a record of stakeholders, their influence and how to engage them, adapted to the realities of implementing an electronic health records system.
What a Stakeholder Register is
A stakeholder register is a record of stakeholders, their influence and how to engage them. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Stakeholder Register. On an ehr implementation project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an EHR Implementation project
EHR Implementation projects live or die on implementing an electronic health records system. A well-built stakeholder register gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how ehr implementation projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Stakeholder name and role
- Power and interest
- Attitude
- Engagement approach
EHR Implementation-specific considerations
Tailor the stakeholder register to the risks that most often derail ehr implementation projects:
- Clinical workflow disruption
- Patient-data privacy
- Clinician adoption
Example
On a real ehr implementation project, the stakeholder register would be shaped by implementing an electronic health records system. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — clinical workflow disruption, patient-data privacy, clinician adoption — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.