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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?

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?

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?

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?

A physician office would like to adopt a tool that would provide it the opportunity to collect images and monitor luminal fluid and the contents of each gut segment, including metabolites, electrolytes, hormones, enzymes, and microbial communities, via smartphones, which are easily observed online and reviewed by patients and physicians.Which tool will allow the physician office these options?

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?

A new chief information officer at Golden Sunrise Nursing Home is responsible for ensuring no potential threats jeopardize the integrity of the electronic health record system that the nursing home uses. Therefore, the chief information officer would like to run a test to verify password challenges, confidentiality of patient data, and backup plans in the event of breaches.Which type of test should the new chief information officer run to verily these areas?

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?

. Concerned family members of a patient are curious about the time it will take before the patient can be discharged. Which system should be used to identify this information, assuming that it has been updated recently?

The nurses at Western View Hospital were asked to provide feedback regarding a new computerized order entry system that the hospital would like to implement Before allowing the system to go fully live, the nurses de a test run to check how it will perform. The nurses state that the computerized order entry system requires too many clicks to get to the correct screen and the screens are difficult on the eyes.Which type of testing should Western View Hospital perform to identify these challenges?

Sara is a laboratory technician at Cedar Bend Hospital The hospital uses multiple platforms that hold different types of protected health information. She needs to log in and out repeatedly dwing each shit, which is extremely time-consuming. To help her be more efficient and avoid wasting time logging in and out, Sara decides to save her sign-on information on the computers that she regularly uses so they will automatically sign her in. One day, another laboratory technician goes to use the computer Sara was just on and incorrectly enters patient information accidentally while logged in to Sara's account What could have been done to prevent this situation from occurring?