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A patient is coughing up blood and has night sweats, fever, chest pain, and fatigue. The physician assistant (PA) suspects the patient may have tuberculosis; therefore, she orders a TB blood test Where, within the clinical information system, should the PA request this test to appropriately diagnose and treat the patient?

A patient has been coughing for several weeks and has chest pain, fever, and fatigue. The physician assistant (PA) suspects the patient may have tuberculosis. The PA ordered a chest x-ray earlier that day would like to review the results since appropriate infection control and treatment measures need to be taken if the patient is positive. Where, within the clinical information system, should the PA review the chest x-ray results to verify whether the patient has tuberculosis?

Fielder Medical Center is very unhappy with the electronic health record system that it currently has in place. The nurses and healthcare staff are constantly complaining that the system freezes up and crashes consistently, which seems to be due to the size of the facility causing the system to become overload regularly. The representatives of the electronic health record system stated that a test was run to assess the response rates prior to the launch However, it was done during the weekend when the staff were placing the lightest load on the system.

Which test should have been done to ensure that speed and performance would not become degraded or overloaded to support the large medical center's capacity fully?

Which information in an electronic health record (EHR) would help a nurse plan the care for a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?

A medical facility wants to reduce the occurrences of errors in diagnosis and treatment by providing the option of alerts when nurses perform order entries. The facility wants the alerts to distinguish between e- threatening concerns and those with minor consequences.Which health information technology tool will allow such an option?

Which administrative information system is used to manage employee payroll?

A patient comes to the emergency room complaining of a rapid heart rate. The nurse wants to use an online journal to research abnormally rapid heart rates. What is a downside of using an online journal as a clinical data source?

Lellani handles all the billing at Dellberg Clinic. She receives dozens of emails per day from insurance companies inquiring about patients' billing activities. One day, she receives an email from an unknown sander with an attachment. She is worried she does not open it, there could be a billing question potentially left unanswered. She decides to open the file attachment in the email. Her computer suddenly receives a notification that the electronic billing system has been infiltrated due to a malware attack.What should Leilani have done to avoid the malware attack?

Western View Hospital is launching a new electronic health record system. Until now, the hospital kept hard copies of all health records. Since this transition to an electronic format would impact many areas of the hospital, the facility has decided to assign tasks to each department for evaluating how to most effectively transition to adoption of the new electronic system.Which quality improvement tool should the hospital use to approach launching the new electronic record system?

The attending in charge of several residents in the EHR has noticed inconsistencies in patient metrics. Some examples include abnormally low platelet counts for patients who never received requests for bloodwork.How should the EHR be reviewed to identify the cause?

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) worked on a program project where it employed the Integrated Delivery System Research Network (DSRN) What made this program project unique?