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A patient presents to the inpatient unit following surgery. The receiving nurse has not heard a report from the operating room (OR) nurse. The patient is experiencing great discomfort, and the receiving nurse wishes to see the documentation for any pain medication given by the previous nurse. The leadership has not achieved meaningful use stage 2 yet.
Which point of care system software will improve communication?
Laboratory information system Computerized provider order entry Picture archiving communication system Electronic medication administration record ✔✔Electronic medication administration record
A medical facility meaningful use objective is to develop a health IT system. The medical facility objective is to improve patient engagement. In order to improve patient engagement it will be necessary to communicate with patients through a patient portal.
What will be needed for this implementation? 1 / 4
Local area network Open source software Interoperability protocols Clinical workflow analysis ✔✔Interoperability protocols
Leadership at a healthcare organization implements a new electronic healthcare record system without performing appropriate workflow analysis. The staff stopped using the system within one week and the implementation was unsuccessful.
What is the primary issue that contributed to the implementation's failure?
Lack of a physician champion Failure to incorporate legacy data Failure to select an appropriate vendor Lack of communication from management ✔✔Lack of communication from management
A healthcare organization implemented a new electronic health records system using an in-house server. From the first week of go-live, users complained that the system was too slow and was 2 / 4
unusable when a lot of users were entering data at the same time. The information technology department has determined the issue to be an infrastructure problem.
What should have been the foreseeable cause of the system performance problem?
The server room is too hot.The network cable runs are too long.The server was configured incorrectly.The user access privileges are inadequate. ✔✔The server was configured incorrectly.
A patient is at high risk of stroke. The patient's physician is concerned about adherence to the recommended weight loss and diet recommendations. The physician is on an integrated hospital management information system (HMIS).
Which documentation format will ensure accurate and timely data is presented to the physician?
Manual logging of data in a logbook for entry into the HMIS Data sent to the HMIS from a wearable device that tracks in real time HMIS alerts about out-of-range readings sent to the patient via a patient portal 3 / 4
Record of symptoms completed by patient via a paper report and faxed to HMIS ✔✔Data sent to the HMIS from a wearable device that tracks in real time
A hospital realizes patients are expecting access to personal health records on demand. In response, they want to build a mobile health application that would be widely adopted and meet the needs of the majority of the patients.
Which feature of the mobile healthcare application should be the focus to meet these goals?
Speed and accuracy Security and ease of use Designed for use on specific devices Immediate use of emerging platforms ✔✔Security and ease of use
As part of an enterprise implementation of a new electronic health record, a healthcare organization decides to migrate 10 years of legacy data from the previous system into a cloud.
What are two benefits to this organization by doing this?
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