Digital Resource Doc
Scenario
Riverdale Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit acute care hospital with 300 beds that serves the northern region of Massachusetts. The hospital employs over 350 physicians who practice in emergency medicine, cardiology, women and childbirth care, pediatrics, oncology, and more.
Recently, Riverdale Regional Medical Center decided to convert their paper-based record system into an electronic health record (EHR) system. As the Health Information Director of the hospital, you have been placed in charge of undertaking the massive task of implementing the EHR system.
The first task you would like to complete is to introduce the implementation team to EHR systems. The implementation team consists of the chief financial officer (CFO), chief medical officer (CMO), physicians, nurses, the IT department, medical billing and coding specialists, transcriptionists, human resources, and representatives from the admissions and registration department.
Instructions
Create a digital resource that:
- Provides an overview of an EHR system to the implementation team.
- Analyzes the different attributes and functions of the EHR system.
- Examines the HITECH act and its impact on EHR systems.
General Requirements
- Selects format for digital resource: brochure, infographic, or presentation.
- Uses professional language and tone with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation in selected digital resource.
- Provides a title and at least one credible, professional source as an APA formatted reference.
