HIM 474: Electronic Health Records II
What does a functional needs assessment begin with a survey of users?
- Helps educate all about EHR - Educated consumers are able to select best product - provides opportunity for input by all users - Aids matching product capabilities to goals begins to set expectations for benefits achievement
What major categories of functional requirements does CCHIT recognize?
- different vantage point - different needs - vendors have different approaches - other elements of product selection
Which of the following is not included in a use case?
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When did CCHIT first being certifying products?
Ambulatory care - 2006 Inpatient care - 2007 An assessment of the feasibility of certifying infrastructure or network components - 2008
What is CCHIT's purpose?
Its purpose was "to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable HIT throughout the US healthcare system by creating an efficient, credible, sustainable mechanism for the certification of HIT products.
Which organization requires that hospitals base their information management processes on an assessment of internal and external information needs?
Joint commisision
Which of the following is a primary use of an EHR as defined by the IOM's report, "Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System"?
Patient Care Managment
In order for an organization to ensure it has necessary infrastructure to support the desired EHR benefits, it should first...
a logical process must be undertaken to identify the full scope of the information infrastructure needed to achieve an EHR. This begins with the functional needs assessment, moves to the data infrastructure assessment, and completes the cycle with the technology infrastructure assessment.
An applications inventory helps an organization determine that it...
applications that currently exist and how they may be related or not
Which organization has used "use cases" extensively to support standards development for the nationwide health information network (NHIN)?
created by American Health Information community (AHIC) and used by HITSP
As defined by the IOM's report, Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System", which of the following is a secondary use of an EHR?
education, regulation, research, public health & homeland security, policy support
In order to verify that functional needs requirements are complete after surveying users and developing use cases, and organization should next...
in addition to interviewing users and engaging them in developing scenarios or use cases, other sources of information can be collected that can contribute to functional specification
A use case...
is essentially a scenario that describes a system's behavior as it responds to a request that originates from outside of that system
A retrospective analysis of decision making helps organization recognize...
needs that are difficult to inventory
As defined by the IOM's report, Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System", results reporting, results notification, multiple views of data/presentation, and multimedia support are examples of which core functionality?
results managment