Electronic Health Records Flashcards
1
Q
What are EHR’s?
A
- digitalized charts
- tells you what to do and let’s you know when you should do them
- tells you when there is contraindicated drugs
2
Q
Who invented the soap note?
A
-Dr. Lawrence Weed
3
Q
What is the thing called where the govt won’t reimburse you for medicaid patients?
A
-“Meaningful use”
4
Q
What are the meaningful use criteria? this will be a test question!
A
- generate and transmit permissible prescription electronically
- implement one clinical decision support tool
- capability to exchange patient information between providers and acceptable entities electronically
- provide clinical summaries for each patient at each visit
- provide patients with electronic versions of their health data upon request
- report a total of 6 ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS or states
- protect the patient health information through use of appropriate technical capabilities
5
Q
What are those 6 ambulatory clinical quality measures?
A
- adherence to chronic medications
- adherenc to statin therapy for individuals with CAD
- adherence to chronic medications for individuals with diabetes mellitus
- lack of monthly INR monitoring for individuals on warfarin
- INR for individuals taking warfarin and interacting anti-infective medications
- adherence to antipsychotic meds for individuals with schizophrenia
6
Q
stage 1
A
-just get it in your office!
7
Q
Stage 2
A
electronic transmission of patient care summmaries across multiple settings
8
Q
Stage 3
A
-these are more broad goals… wierd
9
Q
Why do docs not like EHR?
A
- only 3 hours of training
- inability to capture the interpersonal moments
- too much time entering data
- too many alerts on most systems
- discrete data versus free text
10
Q
What must med student have on rotations?
A
- their own login name
- nice for the companies because you have to pay per user
11
Q
what do you have to make sure you do before you focus of the computer?
A
-look at the damn patient!!!!
