HIM Ch. 7, 9 and 11 questions with 100% correct answers

HIM Ch. 7, 9 and 11 What is driving the move to electronic health records? - correct answer Improved accuracy in treatment decisions Improved levels of care Ability to bring all health information together Reduction of wait times for appoints with specialists, for procedures The need for electronic health record - correct answer Reduction of wait times for results of diagnostic tests, (improving clinical dx) Improved security of health information through encryption Rapid access to a lot of data - results of lab work, dx tests, medication records Ability to share information among systems Benefits of Electronic Health Records - correct answer Improving all aspects of patient care Improved efficiency and lower health care costs Better clinical decision making by integrating patient information from multiple sources What are the challenges? - correct answer Costs Realization of benefits Standards - need for national computability Change Management- scope of change required for move to EHR Training Early use of computers involved - correct answer business systems, financial or were used in research 1980's network technology allowed - correct answer Registration Admission, Discharge Systems could share information with other departments Early Systems in Healthcare included - correct answer Admission Discharge Transfer Systems(ADT) Provided bed census reporting and other stats Later: clinical systems - Labs, X-ray, Pharmacy Late 1990's to present - correct answer Internet and World Wide Web Lower cost of PC and other devices Creation of smart phones, mobile devices especially important in health care Development of data management tools Rising costs of health care delivery further confirmed the need to move to EHR Components of technology Infrastructure - correct answer Computer Hardware Computer Software Portals Interfaces Computer Networks Data Storage Hosted Data Centres Technology Security Computer - correct answer Electronic device that accepts data as input, processes or alters them and produces useful information as output Two Components of Computer - correct answer Hardware and Software Hardware - correct answer Refers to physical components you can see & touch Examples of Hardware - correct answer The computer, circuit boards, computer chips, monitor, keyboard, printers , mouse, and switches, network cards, routers, cabling/fibre optics when computers are connected in a network