Question

EHR in Review Complete the following exercises based on content previously covered in Chapters 1 and 2. 1. Truong Tran (05-30-1991) has picked up another insurance plan. MetLife insurance will now be his secondary insurance payer; Aetna will still remain as primary. Add this new insur- ance carrier to Truong's record. MetLife Insurance Policy ID Number: XXT65667 Group Number: PA57 Claims Address: 1234 Insurance Avenue, Anytown, AL 12345 Claims Phone Number: 800-877-0909 *Truong is the Policy Holder of this secondary insurance 2. What are the four main goals of the Meaningful Use program? 3. Define clinical decision support tools and give one example of how they are used.

Answer 1

2. Four main goals of the Meaningful Use Program :-

- Improving quality, safety, efficiency, and reducing health disparities.

- Engage patients and families in their health.

- Improve care coordination.

- Improve population and public health.

3. Clinical decision support tools :-

Providingclinicians, patients or individuals with knowledge and person-specific or population information, intelligently filtered or present at appropriate times, to foster better health processes, better individual patient care and better population health.

#. Purpose of CDS :-

To maximize the probability that clinical decisions are evidence-based and customized to the individual patient and specific-clinical situation

#. CDS includes :-

Computerized alerts/reminders to care providers/patients; methods to bring care into compliance with clinical guidelines/protocols; condition and treatment-focused order sets; patient data reports/summaries; documentation templates; advice to promote more accurate and timely diagnoses; contextually relevant reference information; and other tools to enhance decision making in clinical workflow