Question

1.What types of clinical content are typically provided by vendors? 2. What approaches do vendors and health care systems take towards developing and customizing clinical content within their EHRs?

Answer 1

Question-1-Answer

Vendors typically provides evidence based information and technology to support clinical decisions.These vendors provides clinical content in the form of downloadable, evidence based or best practice based ordered sets.

Clinical contents refers to the various checklist,documents and forms that address an area of medicine when using an EHR(Electronic Health Record).For example, a pediatric practice would be interested in documentation tools for a newborn visiit.Not all EHRs have clinical content for all areas of medicine.

Electronic Health Record(EHR) sometimes known as Electronic Medical records are electronic systems that store your health record in place of paper copy.

Question-2-Answer

Clinical content in EHR can be developed by following approaches,

-When designing EHR system,Vendors should prioritize the needs of providers.

The developers should follow principles of user centred design,such as by obtaining frequent user feedback at multiple points at development establishing user 'Personas' that reflect the typical needs of different types of clinicians.Customization in each facility is unique based on its workflows,configuration can help optimize the safe use of the system.

-Prior to implementing an EHR it is critical that the providers and vendors vigorously test the new system.

Vendors and providers should also conduct test cases,with specific,clinically oriented goals in mind.Each goal should be paired with clear measures of success and failure.

-Before implementing an EHR system,vendors and providers should have a comprehesive plan in place to correct any issues that may occur.

Vendors should develop an implementation plan,based on experience,and share it with the health care providers implementation teams.

-Creating and promoting a culture of health IT safety

EHR developers should examine the causes of potential risks and do their best to fix them.When hazards are identified,developers should perform root-cause analysis,collect corrective actions,and make sure they are implemented.The experts suggested that developers and clinicians participate in health IT safety.