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1. Welcome to Electronic Health Record (EHR) Game Lets start the Game

2. Electronic Health Record (EHR) An electronic health record (EHR) is a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. While an EHR does contain the medical and treatment histories of patients, an EHR system is built to go beyond standard clinical data collected in a provider’s office and can be inclusive of a broader view of a patient’s care. EHRs can: Contain a patient’s medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results Allow access to evidence-based tools that providers can use to make decisions about a patient’s care

3. Why Adopt EHRs? Health care is a team effort. Shared information supports that effort. When all team members can communicate with each other effectively and efficiently, everyone benefits—patients, their families, and providers. The Nation's health and economy benefit as well. Electronic health record (EHR) adoption requires investment of time and money, but the benefits often outweigh the costs, and financial incentives are available to help providers make the transition. The main goal of health IT is to improve the quality and safety of patient care. The promise of fully realized EHRs is having a single record that includes all of a patient's health information: a record that is up to date, complete, and accurate. This puts providers in a better position to work with their patients to make good decisions.

4. Benefits of Electronic Health Records The benefits of EHR offer far more than a paper record. • Improve quality and convenience of patient care • Increase patient participation in their care • Improve accuracy of diagnoses and health outcomes • Improve care coordination • Increase practice efficiencies and cost savings

5. How to Implement EHRs • Assess Your Practice ReadinessThe first step in EHR implementation is to conduct an assessment of your current practice and its goals, needs, and financial and technical readiness. With an accurate view of your level of preparedness, your practice can design an implementation plan that meets the specific needs of your practice. • Plan Your ApproachPlanning draws on the information gathered during the assessment phase, to outline the practice's EHR implementation plan. • Select or Upgrade to a Certified EHRThere are a number of steps involved in choosing the right EHR system for your practice. Eligible health care professionals and eligible hospitals must use certified EHR technology in order to achieve meaningful use and qualify for incentive payments. • Conduct Training & Implement an EHR SystemEHR implementation involves the installation of the EHR system and associated activities, such as training, mock “go-live,” and pilot testing. • Achieve Meaningful UseThe final phase of EHR implementation includes successfully attesting to demonstrating meaningful use of EHRs, and reassessing what you have learned from training and everyday use of the system. • Continue Quality ImprovementEmphasizes continuous evaluation of your practice's goals and needs post-EHR-implementation to continue improving workflows that achieve the individual practice's goals while leveraging the functionality of electronic health records (EHRs).

6. Components of EHR The Core components of the EHR are: • Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) – A robust order management system which allows clinicians to electronically process various types of orders.  Electronic ordering has been implemented province-wide for laboratory, diagnostic imaging and allied health consult orders.  CPOE enables faster, more efficient, and safer care for Islanders. • Laboratory Information System (LIS)—no matter where a patient is tested, allows laboratory technicians to enter results into a database that will be linked to the patient’s EHR and will be available for viewing • Drug Information System (DIS) –It contains information relating to medications prescribed for Islanders and provides Island pharmacists and other authorized healthcare providers with province-wide access to medication profiles. • Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) – enables the digital capture, storage and distribution of medical images. A diagnostic image such as an X-ray can be captured and shared in real-time with authorized healthcare providers across the province. • Radiology Information System (RIS) – manages all diagnostic imaging-related patient information across PEI. An X-ray taken at one of our community hospitals, for example, can be interpreted by a radiologist either locally or remotely and as soon as she/he finishes the report, it is immediately available electronically to all authorized healthcare providers across PEI. • Client Registry (CR) – serves as the definitive source of patient/client demographic and administrative information. CR shares this information with other components of the EHR as needed.

7. Improve accuracy of diagnoses ? Benefits of EHR Improve care coordination Increase patient participation Increase practice efficiencies Please select in the following by clicking on it Improve quality and convenience of patient care Improve quality of drugs Less cost

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9. Correct Answer Improve quality and convenience of patient care

10. EHR Component Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) Laboratory Information System (LIS) ? Please select the missing component in the following Drug Information System (DIS) Radiology Information System (RIS) Laboratory Test List Cost of Drugs Client Registry (CR)

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12. Correct Answer The Missing Component is Client Registry (CR)

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