For this assignment, you will consider your own facility’s implementation of its electronic health record, if you have one. If not, you should contact a large health system in your area and talk to their IT department, or you may select one of your clinical sites and contact that IT department.
Note: I work at a hospital in Columbus Ohio and we use EPIC electronic Health record.
Description of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
•State the EHR mandate. Who started it? When?
•What are the goals and objectives of the mandate? (See lecture)
•How does the Affordable Care Act tie in to the mandate and Obama Administration tie into the mandate?
Student’s facility’s Plan
•Describe your facility’s plan. Describe each of the six steps listed on the healthit.gov
website and how your facility has addressed these steps or how are they progressing towards meeting these steps. (See lecture for steps)
Discussion of Meaningful Use
•Describe “meaningful use”.
•Describes your facility’s status in attaining it, reasons why or why not, what needs to
be done.
EHRs and Patient Confidentiality
•Definition of HIPAA laws by describing possible threats to patient confidentiality
•What is being done by your facility to prevent HIPAA violations?
