A new nurse asks, "Since Electronic Medical Records can improve quality care by having seamless data available for a patient, why doesn't everyone just replace paper and pencil charts"? Barriers to a universal health information infrastructure include the fact that: (Select all that apply.)
A) competition from individual companies to build EMR prevent a universal infrastructure.
B) cost is prohibitive even with federal funding for larger health care systems.
C) preventive health reminders for immunizations and yearly screenings such as mammograms are used in clinical decision making.
D) insurance companies have halted sharing of some patient data due to fear of law suits.
E) the full capacity of EHRs has not been realized with only Stage 1 of 3 nearing completion.
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q1: A physician has installed a computer-based patient
Q3: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2003) recommends
Q4: Software programs that process data to produce
Q5: Consumers are concerned with security issues related
Q6: A nurse who is teaching a class
Q13: A nurse walks up to a computer
Q14: An advanced practice nurse inputs into a
Q15: A nurse is caring for a patient
Q17: A nurse is interested in locating reliable
Q18: When paper-and-pencil medical records are compared with
Unlock this Answer For Free Now!
View this answer and more for free by performing one of the following actions
Scan the QR code to install the App and get 2 free unlocks
Unlock quizzes for free by uploading documents