C810-Chapter 15-Check Your Understanding questions and answers graded A+

C810-Chapter 15-Check Your UnderstandingHealth information exchange is intended to facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data to provide safer, timelier, efficient, effective, equitable patient-centered care. - correct answer What are some of the benefits that the health information exchange is expected to deliver to the healthcare industry? The objective of the legislation was to explore innovations in reimbursement; provide guidance on health IT standards, certification, and interoperability; and to provide incentives to healthcare providers to adopt electronic health record systems. - correct answer What were the objectives of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act? CEHRT standards were implemented to inform technology vendors and providers about the functionality required to receive incentive payments for the implementation of EHR technology in the CMS EHR incentive program. - correct answer What are the Certified Electronic Health Record Technology standards and why are they important? Care quality is intended to be improved by making critical patient information available at the point of care delivery and through the aggregation and mining of data to determine best practices in diagnosis and treatment. - correct answer How is care quality intended to improve through the implementation of health information technology? It is assumed by many policymakers and diverse professionals in the healthcare industry that the aggregation of diagnostic and therapeutic processes will lead to a reduction of practice and diagnostic variability providing more consistent treatment based on best practices mined from large amounts of collected data. - correct answer Why did policymakers assume that information technology would improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery? Interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged. - correct answer What is interoperability? In healthcare, the variability of services, products, and systems, and the lack of motivation to share information to achieve a common purpose continues to confound healthcare's efforts for interoperability. Some challenges to interoperability include the diversity of healthcare services, the wide range of information systems, and the numerous clinical domains with high levels of information complexity. - correct answer What environmental factors make interoperability between health information technology providers so difficult to achieve? The purpose of the NHIN is to provide a nationwide information technology architecture, consisting of rules and standards to use the Internet for exchanging health information in a secure and timely fashion. - correct answer What is the stated purpose of the Nationwide Health Information Network? In 2005, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) was chartered as an advisory committee to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This body was created to help the nation transition to electronic health records through common standards in support of interoperability through a process of advisory committee guidance and competition between technology companies within the industry. It was to initiate a common, open, transparent, collaborative framework, with just enough chao - correct answer For what purpose was the American Health Information Community launched? Examples of information complexity include: The multiple descriptors assigned to pharmaceuticals, the different formats used for clinical document transmission, or the different protocols used for information transmission within and between systems - correct answer Provide some examples of information complexity that can cause problems with interoperability? The five categories of value are: Improved communications; improved patient safety; increased use of evidence-based medical practice; improved metrics reporting; and greater support of preventative medicine initiative - correct answer What are the five categories of value that are identified by the Health Information Management and Systems Society? DIRECT exchange: Launched in March 2010 as a part of the Nationwide Health Information Network, the Direct Project was created to specify a simple, secure, scalable, standards-based way for participants to send (push) authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet