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Health information technology (HIT) goal - ANSWER ✔✔Improve
population health outcomes and healthcare quality
HIT meaningful use - ANSWER ✔✔Interactive computerized
information and communication system.
HIT documentation essentials - ANSWER ✔✔Updated problem list,
Hx, Dx, VS, PE data, Medication list, Allergy list, real-time access to
imaging files
, HIT requirements - ANSWER ✔✔1. Clinical decision support
capabilities, Incorporates standard "evidence based practice" protocols
that monitor care and send prompts if care is not recorded.
2. Uses Computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
3. Reports quality outcome measures to the government (CMS), public
health agencies, state and/or local agencies.
4. Follows HIPAA requirements
5. Capable of generating written prescriptions
6. Provide patient with clinical summaries
7. Provide summary of care at each transition and referral
8. Aggregates data
Computerized clinical decision-making support - ANSWER
✔✔Software that inputs specific information about a patient, analyzes it,
and makes recommendations for care based on "evidence based
practice"
Three key elements to electronic records - ANSWER
✔✔interoperability, portability, and ease of use
Advantages to EHR's - ANSWER ✔✔- improved information flow