Description

Read the NAQ article that was posted in the lesson. discuss the recommendations presented in the article for the Ideal system:

1-Simple, fast documentation with minimal redundancy

2-EHR coordination with patient and family needs and wishes

3-Central source of best practice forms and other resources in a free, vendor-neutral, and accessible library

4-Multidisciplinary collaboration on the design of EHR and CDS systems

5-Data: Standardized, actionable, and interoperable

6-Integration of biomedical devices with the EHR to avoid nurses entering that data

7-Multiple sources of decision support information for clinicians

8-Decision support dashboards

Discuss how these recommendations (re: nursing informatics) would affect nursing workflow and meaningful use. Pick and choose some of the ideas from the article and apply them to workflow analysis, and meaningful use concepts. Try to present your main thoughts about the recommendations as a whole and then support your reactions with examples of some of the recommendations.