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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Meaningful use"”.
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Innovative Approach to New Nurse Residency, Meaningful Use and Health Care Reform
… with the utilization of new graduates as super users.</p> <p>A new graduate program, which incorporated the use of a formal preceptor and mentoring program, was designed to train 100 nurses over the next four years. New graduates were hired as non-benefited employees into a centralized float …
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A Measurement of Readiness for Tennessee Hospitals to Implement “Meaningful Use” Criteria Resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2009
… for those acute-care hospitals that meet "meaningful use" computerization and reporting criteria.</p><p>The study used a descriptive, nonexperimental design to answer three research questions (1) What is the level of readiness to meet "meaningful use" criteria in the Tennessee Hospital …
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Innovative Workforce Plan: Recently Graduated Nurses as Super Users for EHR Implementation in a Multi-Hospital Organization
… health record (EHR) in order to meet Stage 2 meaningful use requirements led to a need for innovative cost-containment strategies. Tapping the local pool of unemployed newly graduated nurses as half the required super user workforce leveraged the technology skills of novice nurses registered …
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Patient Portal Use in a Community Medical Group: A Healthcare Improvement Project
… patient engagement. As described by the act, meaningful use of a tethered personal health record called a patient portal was theorized to improve patient engagement and result in improved clinical outcomes, reduced cost and increased patient satisfaction. Accordingly, financial incentives and …
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Electronic Health Record Utilization and Education: Improving Role-Specific Confidence and Competence in the Outpatient Setting
<p>The call for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) and its universal benefits are well known. Despite mandates for change resistance to adoption of paper-less system remains problematic. Non-use of the EHR has persisted in the outpatient specialty care setting in spite of 4 all-staff …
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Implementation Plan for EMR and Beyond
… medical record (EMR) to meet the requirements of meaningful use mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) for all hospitals across the United States. EMRs are expected to improve quality in many areas, especially to improve outcomes, while safely reducing costs (U.S. Department of …
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Business model and strategy analysis for radiologists to use electronic health records (EHR)
… and treat disease. It has long been an advance user of technology to capture, store, share, and use images electronically. In 2009, President Obama signed into law a measure, the HITECH Act (part of the stimulus package), that incentivizes healthcare providers to use electronic health records …
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Does Health Information Technology Improve Hospital Process Measures?
… the results have been mixed. In this paper, I use a fixed effects regression model and national administrative and survey data to also analyze the effect of increased HIE. The impacts of EMR and HIE vary by hospital type. These findings suggest that "meaningful use" standards are not optimally …
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Možnosti využití přírody v podpoře duševního zdraví
This thesis focuses on the possibilities of using nature to support the mental health of older adults in residential social services. It examines the role of contact with the natural environment as an important factor influencing psychological well-being in old age. The theoretical part defines the …
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Generating anatomical substructures for physically-based facial animation.
… facial deformations, but have failed to find meaningful use outside the academic community because they are notoriously difficult to create, reuse, and art-direct, in comparison to other methods of facial animation. This thesis addresses these shortcomings and presents a series of methods for …
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Wait-learning : intelligent systems for making productive use of wait time
… reply. These fleeting moments could instead be used for completing short, concrete microtasks towards accomplishing long-term goals. This thesis presents novel systems and approaches that enable wait-time productivity. First, WaitChatter enables wait-learning, by automatically detecting when a …
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From Theory to Practice: Improving Causal Conclusions from Healthcare Data
… study, built upon previous research on statin use and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) incidence, we examine how including extraneous covariates---a likely risk when researchers over-adjust to mitigate concerns about unmeasured confounding---may degrade estimator performance. …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
… in 2009, which incentivized providers to use electronic health records (EHR) for meaningful use (MU); the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) stems from the Act. Research by the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA) shows that primary care practices have a positive influence on the …
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A Heuristic Narrative Exploration of Teacher Perception: The Usefulness of Teacher Evaluation
… purpose of this heuristic narrative study was to use teacher voice to gain a stronger understanding of what teachers need for the meaningful use of the evaluation process for improving teaching and learning. Data collected and analyzed from eight co-researchers, who represented eight different …
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An Epidemiology of Big Data
… stakeholders struggle with the adoption of Meaningful Use Standards, International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10), and electronic health record interoperability standards, big data in healthcare remains a widely misunderstood phenomenon. Borgman (2012) found by "studying how data are …
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Structural indicators for effective quality assurance of snomed ct
… SCT is not optimally modeled for its intended use by healthcare practitioners. There is a need to perform quality assurance (QA) of SCT to help expedite its use as a reference terminology for clinical purposes as planned for EH R use. The central theme of this dissertation is to define a …
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Public Health Professionals’ Prepardness and Challenges In Implementing Certified Electronic Health Records Technology
… Health Records (EHR) Technology for the Meaningful Use (MU) in eighteen Health Districts of Georgia. The aims were to observe the status of the public health information systems’ installation and subsequent linking of the system with the state health department, Eligible Practitioners, …
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English language instruction as ‘co-creation': a new CHAT model for integrating mobile technologies in advanced TEFL
… which demonstrates how ET's affordances can be meaningfully mobilised in English language instruction, especially within postcolonial contexts. In this thesis, I seek to understand and find drivers for local, English language pedagogical change which draws on mobile technology. This study is …
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Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management
… health IT, concepts like patient-centered care, meaningful use, and patient empowerment are commonplace in the healthcare system. As the popularity of personal health records increases, medical providers, healthcare organizations, and health information system stakeholders require a thorough …
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Ocio Digital Intergeneracional. Evolución antes, durante y después de la COVID-19
… increase in digital leisure, with intensive use of video calls, instant messaging, and social networks to maintain communication and share activities. After the pandemic, although face-to-face activities were partially resumed, digital leisure remained a common and complementary practice, …
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