Answer 2 for DNP 805 Select a specific health care technology-related regulation, law, statute, or ethical standard that applies to informatics

Answer 2 for DNP 805 Select a specific health care technology-related regulation, law, statute, or ethical standard that applies to informatics

The law signed in 2009, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided funding to strengthen health care information technology. Nurses have an opportunity to participate in the design, testing, and teaching use of electronic health records through parts of multiple data input and extraction nurses perform. (Alexander, et al, 2019)

I support the change to electronic health records (EHRs) to improve patient safety, improve the ability to provide quality care, reduction in paperwork, improved care coordination, legibility of notes. Improved quality through clinical alerts that reduce and prevent medication errors and duplicate orders. (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2015). Electronic health records can facilitate improved communication between providers and patients if patients have the ability to access charts through a patient portal. Example Mychart Providence.

Healthcare technology, such as electronic health records (EHRs) is critical for quality improvement. EHRs store data re: medication, diagnosis, clinical guidelines, demographics, objective and subjective data. The ability to retrieve data and have benchmarks makes it easier to implement safety protocols and other quality initiatives. (AHRQ, 2022)

When using health care technology, such as EHRS, we should continue to use our values. The information in EHRs is a patient’s history- viewing the information should take on empathy, compassion, integrity, and authenticity as if you’re face to face with the patient.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Using health information technology for primary care quality improvement (QI). 2022. https://www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/health-it-tools.html

Alexander, S., Frith, K. H., & Hoy, H. (Eds.). (2019). Applied clinical informatics for nurses (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284129175

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2015) Electronic health records provider. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Fraud-Prevention/Medicaid-Integrity-Education/Downloads/docmatters-ehr-providerfactsheet.pdf