Question

Case Study #3

Christina Fredrick, RN works in the operating room for a medium-sized hospital (250 beds). The hospital leaders have made the decision to implement EHRs over the next 18 months. Christina has been asked to serve on a hospital-wide task force appointed to evaluate various EHR systems and recommend the best system for the hospital to ensure a strong focus on promoting patient safety and quality care. The Task Force has also been charged with ensuring that the system will meet the "meaningful use" criteria currently being mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).

1. What key functionalities of EHR Systems should Christina and the other task force members look for in their evaluation of various EHR systems?
   1. Clinical decision support
   2. Reporting and population health management
   3. Health information and data capture
   4. All of the above
2. What are "meaningful use" criteria for EHR systems? (Select all that apply)
   1. Rules chosen by  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
   2. Provide financial incentives to providers who adopt the use these standards
   3. For use by hospitals and physician practice settings
   4. A simple set of standards that must be met

Answer 1

1. Key functions of electronic health record should evaluate the various electronic health records

Answer is the all the above. Key the function of electronic health records are the clinical decision support by helping user to use alerts and reminders and provides patient in the forms of laboratory results, medication prescription, history regarding allergies and provides data report regarding surveillance and patient safety

2. It is for hospital and physician care settings and a simple set of standards that must be met, provide financial incentives to providers who adopt use of these standards. Other option is incorrect because meaningful   use of work group of health information technology policy committee and center of Medicaid and Medicare brought meaningful criteria in the 2009, 2010 respectively. moreover it is not meaningful criteria