A patient has had several admissions to his local hospital for asthma and was recently transferred to another hospital to have hip replacement surgery.The benefit of a standardized EHR is
A)Timely access to health data.
B)Improved coordination of care.
C)Enhanced ability to work collaboratively with other organizations.
D)Enhanced ability to extract best practice data from published sources.

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The patient's health information could be transferred to the hospital where hip replacement surgery will be done.The patient would benefit from a standardized EHR by improved coordination of care,reduced repetition of health information,and reduced duplication of tests and procedures.Health care providers benefit from timely access to health data benefits.Service delivery organizations benefit from the enhanced ability to work collaboratively with other organizations.Educators benefit from the enhanced ability to extract best practice data from published sources.

A Patient Has Had Several Admissions to His Local Hospital