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) Meaningful use program: It is tern used in US government standards for electronic health records (EHR) for storing the clinical data and also should be is used to exchange the clinical data between health care providers,between healthcare provider and insurances,between providers and the patients.

It is used to develop collaboration between the clinical and public health care to improve patient centeric preventive care and to standardized data exchanges.

Goals of meaning use program:

• It is used to develop efficiency,safety.
• Increase and expand population and public health.
• Increase care coordination and patient engagement.
• Ensure and maintain the privacy and confidentiality in protection for personal health information.

3) Clinical support decision system: It is an applications that can analyze data the data to make decision to health care provider to improve patient care.It mainly focus on the patient related data for formulating the diagnosis and also used to support business management.It enable the integrated workflow,provide and recommends care plan for health care providers.

Examples of Clinical decision system tools:

• Quick Medical Reference(QMR) 1974 :It is used to diagnosis the complex problems in general internal medicine.
• MYCIN (1976):It is an expert system used to diagnose and management for blood infection such as bacteremia or meningitis and other infectious disease.
• EMYCIN:It is domain independent framework used for build of diagnostic rules and designed to interpret pulmonary function tests for patients with lung disease.
• Casual ASsociation NETwork(CASNET)(1960): It is used for process,diagnosis and treatment for glaucoma.
• Present llness program(PIP): It can gathered data and generate the processes in patients with renal disease.
• Acid base electrolyte program (ABEL): It an expert system used for causes and, management for electrolyte and acid balance.
• ONCOCIN: It is an expert system and was designed for the treatment of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy
• Hospital information system
• PubMed
• Clinical laboratory system