NSG 3180 Unit 5 Electronic Communication - Student
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1 NSG 3180 Unit 5
Technology and Communication
2 Computerized Health Information Technology
• Two important elements:
• Communication
• Documentation
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4 Meaningful Use of Computerized Health Information
Technology (HIT)
• HIT systems are designed:
• To be interactive
• To support the multiple information needs required by today’s
complex patient care.
• To provide you and other on the health team with clinical
decision support.
• To achieve safer care for your patients.
5 HIT Requirements
• Patient data
• Updated problem list
• Hx; Dx; VS; PE data
• Medication list
• Allergy list (crosschecks for drug-drug-allergy problems and
sends alerts to providers)
• Imaging files with real-time access at the point of care
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6 HIT Requirements
• Clinical Decision-making support
• CPOE
• Reports quality outcome data
• Generates written Rx
• Provides patient summaries
• Aggregates data
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