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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?

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 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?

Knowledge of the levels of evidence in healthcare research is important to nurses, because this can ultimately lead to an improvement in the quality of care. Which source of information is most likely to be based on high levels of evidence?

How should a patient protect their patient portal data?

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?

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?

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?

Recently, several backlogged databases have resulted in errors on EHR. Which information system would a systems engineer or IT utilize to identify software that have not been updated?

A patient is unaware that their health information is readily available, in real time, through the patient portal. Which method is most efficient to answer non-emergency inquiries instead of manually calling?

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