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A patient would like to be informed about their appointments in advance for logistical purposes. What is the most efficient solution?

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?

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?

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?

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?

Anika is a new chief information officer who was recently hired at Fielder Medical Center. Anika is tasked with ensuring that there are no potential vulnerabilities in the medical center's new electronic health record system. Anika notices that there is a high level of attacks that are regularly occurring on their system, which could compromise the integrity of their protected health records.What should Anika do to reduce the number of attacks that occur on their system?

An emergency room nurse has a patient with the flu, whose respiratory rate is wavering and whose body temperature is escalating periodically. The nurse wants to accese a clinical data source that regularly and systematically collects, analyses, and interprets data on infectious diseases to research disease-prevention and control information related to the patient's condition.Which clinical data source will meet the nurse's needs?

How might patient visits be used proactively to inform them about the use of their patient portal?

A patient has traditionally made calls to schedule visits. Although they are enrolled in the patient portal, they prefer not to use it due to difficulty in navigating the platform. What change to the patient's application would increase ease of use for them?

A skilled nursing facility hospital utilizes paper and pen when nurses chart patient records. The nurses who work at this facility have brought to the administration's attention the problems that regularly occur when patient information is transferred to different locations, whether between floors or organizations. The nurses have also elaborated on the potential for paper charts to be susceptible to damage, less, or the Which health information technology tool should the facility adopt to address the nurses' concerns?

Which administrative information system is the primary determinant of scheduling availability for other administrative and clinical information systems?