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Assume that a patient has never accessed their patient portal and has requested hard copies of their information. How should this situation be resolved with the intent of getting the patient to use their patient portal?

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?

A patient has a pus-filled lesion on her lower leg accompanied by a fever. The nurse believes the patient may have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can be easily spread through physical contact appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is not wain. Where, within the clinical information system, should the nurse record this precaution to ensure that others will wear the appropriate PPE when interacting with this patient?

Fatima is a radiologist at Dellberg Clinic She notices that one of her co-workers, Oliver, who works in the radiology department with her, is constantly looking up the demographic information of any new patient who gets admitted to the facility, regardless of whether they are receiving a radiology procedure. Fatima approaches Oliver and asks why he is always looking up recently admitted patient’s demographic information. He responds that he is bored and finds it interesting to learn about each patient, even if they never make it ever to his department.What could be done to fox the privacy breach in the given scenario?

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?

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?

A patient was mistakenly prescribed a higher dosage of benzodiazepines than intended, because of a copy-pasting error. Having identified this mistake prior to the delivery of their medication, which information system should be used to identify the order?

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?

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?

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?

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