Meaningful use was established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This act founds rules and regulations that organizations must abide by if they would like to take advantage of funding available for organizations that meet the meaningful use criteria.
Discuss the following:
- Define the three stages of meaningful use within the Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive plan.
- In your current work setting, what do you perceive as the present obstacles to redesigning workflow within the environment?
- Is the technology usage workflow providing your organization with the data it needs to make decisions and meet meaningful use criteria?
Reports by The Institute of Medicine emphasize the utilization of technology as a core competency for today’s nurses. Nursing leaders heard this call for technology competencies in academia, and in 2005 the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) was initiated.
- Knowing that technology will gain a more significant presence in the work-life of nurses, what do you feel are the implications for nursing education as the electronic health record becomes the standard for caring for patients?
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