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Implications of Electronic Health Record Meaningful Use Legislation for Nursing Clinical Information System Development and Refinement
Author(s) -
Scherb Cindy A.,
Maas Meridean L.,
Head Barbara J.,
Johnson Marion R.,
Kozel Marie,
Reed David,
Swanson Elizabeth,
Moorhead Sue
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of nursing knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2047-3095
pISSN - 2047-3087
DOI - 10.1111/j.2047-3095.2013.01235.x
Subject(s) - interoperability , nursing , legislation , obligation , nursing research , electronic health record , quality (philosophy) , nursing outcomes classification , meaningful use , medicine , health care , computer science , team nursing , world wide web , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
Purpose: To describe what electronic health record meaningful use requirements mean for nursing clinical information system ( CIS ) development. Conclusions: The nursing CIS in many, if not most hospitals, has a number of critical design inadequacies that constrain the meaningful use of nursing data to ensure quality outcomes for patients and data‐based maturing of the nursing profession. Implications: It is the responsibility and obligation of nurses to ensure that CIS s are designed for the meaningful use of nursing clinical data. To accomplish these ends, interoperable clinical nursing data must be documented in a properly integrated operational CIS , and must be retrievable and stored in data repositories for analysis and reports.