The Meaningful Use Workgroup Recommendations

Discussion questions:a.  Will tracking every intervention and user response, a technically challenging activity, substantially impact healthcare quality/safety, research, or efficiency?b.  Are standards sufficiently well described/mature to author and exchange externally authored rules? c.  Must we require that all rules be transmitted or might we allow options such as decision support services in which rules reside in external modules and only questions/answers are exchanged?2.  Advance DirectivesCEHRT has the functionality to store the document in the record and/or include more information about the document (e.g., link to document or instructions regarding where to find the document or where to find more information about it).Discussion questions:a.  Given variations in state regulations for advance directives, will we require structured data standards or accept free text/pointers to free text?b.  Can we eliminate the "OR" since such criteria become an "AND" for developers3.  EMARCEHRT provides the ability to generate and report on discrepancies between what was ordered and what/when/how the medication  was actually administered to use for quality improvementDiscussion questions:a.  Is tracking every variation/override, a technically challenging activity, a high priority for healthcare quality departments?b.  Do discrepancies commonly occur and if so, are these discrepancies clinically relevant?4.  ImagingFor both EPs ...
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