Anika is a new chief information officer who was recently hired at Fielder Medical Center. Anika is tasked with ensuring that there are no potential vulnerabilities in the medical center's new electronic health record system. Anika notices that there is a high level of attacks that are regularly occurring on their system, which could compromise the integrity of their protected health records
What should Anika do to reduce the number of attacks that occur on their system?

A specialty hospital wants to be able to share its patients' records with the other departments within the facility. The hospital has noticed that there is an inefficiency with the current workflow since supporting departments such as radiology, laboratory, and pharmacy cannot easily access patient records and must physically walk over to the nurses' station to obtain the necessary clinical information.
Which health information technology tool will allow the specially hospital this option?

A patient would like to be informed about their appointments in advance for logistical purposes. What is the most efficient solution?

Daniel is a lab technician at Dellberg Clinic and an animal lover Daniel always talks to his patients about his dog, discussing how he decided on its name and sharing pictures of it. Patients seem to love hearing about Daniel's dog and often puts them at ease during their procedures. One day, a patient noticed Daniel left his iPad in their room. Although the iPad was password-protected, the patient look a guess and used Daniel's dog's name as the password and gained access to the electronic health records of all the patients in the clinic.
What could have been done to avoid protected health information from being compromised in this scenario?

A patient has symptoms of itching and genital warts. The nurse believes the patient may have human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease. The nurse practitioner orders a pap smear in which a sample is collected and tested for HPV. After a couple of hours, the nurse practitioner wants to check the results so that she can appropriately treat and understand the patient's condition. Where, within the clinical information system, should the nurse practitioner review the pap smear results to verify whether the patient has HPV?

Recently, several backlogged databases have resulted in errors on EHR. Which information system would a systems engineer or IT utilize to identify software that have not been updated?

Western View Hospital is launching a new electronic health record system. Until now, the hospital kept hard copies of all health records. Since this transition to an electronic format would impact many areas of the hospital, the facility has decided to assign tasks to each department for evaluating how to most effectively transition to adoption of the new electronic system
Which quality improvement tool should the hospital use to approach launching the new electronic record system?

The attending in charge of several residents in the EHR has noticed inconsistencies in patient metrics. Some examples include abnormally low platelet counts for patients who never received requests for bloodwork
How should the EHR be reviewed to identify the cause?

Sara is a laboratory technician at Cedar Bend Hospital The hospital uses multiple platforms that hold different types of protected health information. She needs to log in and out repeatedly dwing each shit, which is extremely time-consuming. To help her be more efficient and avoid wasting time logging in and out, Sara decides to save her sign-on information on the computers that she regularly uses so they will automatically sign her in. One day, another laboratory technician goes to use the computer Sara was just on and incorrectly enters patient information accidentally while logged in to Sara's account What could have been done to prevent this situation from occurring?

In which situation should a gap analysis be used?

A new patient wants to be able to chat more frequently with their healthcare provider about their condition and progress between visits How should the patient portal be best utilized to increase their access to such information?