If your practice is trying to get ready and implement EMR then you need to make sure that you have everything ready.
You are not ready to implement EMR if you have issues in communicating with your current EMR vendor.  You need to make sure that there is one specific person in the organization who is overseeing the implementation and hence knows about each and every little detail about the software. Otherwise, putting the responsibility on medical staff will overburden them and will compromise their quality of work at the office.

To get the practice EMR ready, you will need to look at the following things:

1.       Educate every relevant person in the office about the upcoming changes and hold trainings on how to use the integrated software. Provide basic guidelines to the management and how to best use the EMR software.
2.       Ask questions from the vendor about every issue that you are facing with the software and how they think the issue should be resolved. Put in place a single person who will coordinate with the vendors and solve issues at the workplace.
3.       Make sure that you try out a testing phase of the EMR software before it is actually supposed to go live at the practice. Initiate the use of EMR throughout the office a couple of months before the actual starting date so that every issue that comes with the running of the software is handled before and everyone gets to learn how to use the software on a daily basis.
4.       Take control of your previous problems caused by paper-based records. Analyze why there was a problem in the first place and how the implementation of EMR is going to solve these problems.
5.       You have to make sure that there is financial stability at the workplace because the implementation of EMR can cost a lot in the implementation phase. If the practice is running behind on meeting up with the expenses incurred on the software implementation then take a step back and wait for the situation to ameliorate.

The implementation of an EMR software takes some time so the practice should be diligent and should start working on it as soon as possible. Getting late in the implementation process can cause havoc at the practice where everybody already has a lot of workload to look after.