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Radiology recently hired new residents, one of which has misplaced MRI scans for an upcoming patient visitation. Which data system should be used to acquire these scans prior to the visit?

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?

Daniel is a lab technician at Dellberg Clinic and an animal lover Daniel always talks to his patients about his dog, discussing how he decided on its name and sharing pictures of it. Patients seem to love hearing about Daniel's dog and often puts them at ease during their procedures. One day, a patient noticed Daniel left his iPad in their room. Although the iPad was password-protected, the patient look a guess and used Daniel's dog's name as the password and gained access to the electronic health records of all the patients in the clinic.What could have been done to avoid protected health information from being compromised in this scenario?

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?

How should a patient protect their patient portal data?

A patient has symptoms of itching and genital warts. The nurse believes the patient may have human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease. The nurse practitioner orders a pap smear in which a sample is collected and tested for HPV. After a couple of hours, the nurse practitioner wants to check the results so that she can appropriately treat and understand the patient's condition. Where, within the clinical information system, should the nurse practitioner review the pap smear results to verify whether the patient has HPV?

A nurse at Cedar Bend Hospital always seems to forget her password. As a solution, she has written her password on a piece of paper and keeps it taped to her monitor at the nursing station for ease of access. A patient noticed the note with the password and, when the nurse was away from her desk, he accessed his own records.What could have been done to prevent protected health information from being compromised in this scenario?

A teaching hospital regularly hires new radiologists. Since these radiologists do not have a strong level of experience as a new hire, the hospital wants to adopt an evidence-based tool to offer the radiologists data to help them when developing clinical assessments.Which health information technology tool will offer the hospital this option?

After acquiring patient vitals and retrieving their associated laboratory values, it is necessary to upload them accordingly. Which information system should be used to upload a patient's vitals and laboratory results directly into EHR?

Maria has been a nurse at Dellberg Clinic for 20 years. She is training a new nurse and is advising them on how to access the clinic's electronic health record system. Maria tells the new nurse to make sure to create a password that she will always remember because once you create it, it will never change.What is wrong with this scenario?