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What does an incident report record? - any incident happening that is inconsistent with
the routine care of a patient or with the routine operation of a health care unit
Function of the clinical decision support system (CDSS)?
What type of info does it give?
What does it help with? - Function = helps health care providers and nurses make
informed clinical decisions
Gives: alerts, warnings, and other critical info about the patient to the user
Helps: decrease treatment errors > results in high-quality patient care
Function of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) - allow health care providers to
directly put prescriptions in the information system from which nurses can access the
information and carry out the prescriptions
What is the clinical information system (CIS) - a computerized program dealing with a
patient's health-related information that is useful for the healthcare providers in a health
care setting
what can the nurse do with the clinical information system (CIS) - - order supplies
available in other departments
- prescribe orders
- monitor systems
- laboratory reports
- radiology reports
What is the administrative information system - the computerized storage of all
administrative information (e.g., health care finances, scheduling of treatments,
admissions, and discharges)
Purpose of ARRA (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) - encourages
electronic communication among the health care bodies and mandates that all medical
records be kept electronically from 2014 forward
Purpose of HITECH (The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical
Health Act) - rewards the health care provider and agencies that adopt the electronic
medical record or electronic health record
Purpose of acuity records.