Question

You are a nurse practitioner in the Bridgeport hospital. A client is brought with a rare skin disease. The hospital has a telehealth link with the UConn Health Center where they have an expert dermatologist available. Describe and justify your steps to initiate a productive teleconference with the UConn Health Center. What backup options might be suitable for that purpose as well. Describe at least 3 characteristics that define meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by doctors or hospitals and how the issue of meaningful use of EHR has changed/modified over the last 3 years according to the Office of the National Coordinator for HealthCare Information Technology.

Answer 1

meaningful use is a term used to define minimum U.S. government standards for electronic health records (EHR), outlining how clinical patient data should be exchanged between healthcare providers, between providers and insurers and between providers and patients

The program is dependent on five priorities of health care policy, according to the CDC including:

1. Reducing health care disparity by improving efficiency, safety, and quality
2. Engaging with patients and their families in their health care
3. Improving health care coordination
4. Improving public health
5. Protecting patients personal health information