Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet
Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet
As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.
With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.
In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organizations compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.
The Assignment: (1 page)
Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:
Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.
INTRODUCTION
The 21st Century Cures Act was approved and passed by both houses of Congress in 2016. It was later signed into law by President Barack Obama in December of 2016. The law covers many healthcare aspects one of which is related to health informatics.
The goals for the formulation of the formulation of the policy was to help in modernizing and personalization of healthcare, encouraging for greater innovation, supporting of research, and streamlining of the healthcare system (Avorn & Kesselheim, 2015).
It was aimed at streamlining the discovery of medicine through basic science and unleashing the power of digital medicine and social media at the treatment delivery phase (Majumder, Guerrini, Bollinger, Cook-Deegan & McGuire, 2017).
IMPACT OF THE POLICY ON SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
The policy enabled for the definition of interoperability and prohibition of information blocking. Information blocking can be described as the practice that prevents the access to electronic health information or any data that related to the medical treatment of a patient.
IMPACT ON CLINICAL CARE AND WORKFLOW
The following are the impact on the law on clinical care and workflow:
Reduction of fraud in health care leading to increased satisfaction of patients
Increment in advances in access to health information
Increment of access to care that is enabled by health information technology
Reduction in discriminatory efforts which frustrate efforts which enable interoperability.
ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES
The following are organizational policies which will be implemented to address the regulation:
Improvement of health information systems to allow for interoperability.
Organization commitment to fulfilling the regulation.
Punitive measures for violators within the company.
REFERENCES
Avorn, J., & Kesselheim, A. S. (2015). The 21st Century Cures Actwill it take us back in time?.New England Journal of Medicine,372(26), 2473-2475.
Majumder, M. A., Guerrini, C. J., Bollinger, J. M., Cook-Deegan, R., & McGuire, A. L. (2017). Sharing data under the 21st Century Cures Act.Genetics in Medicine,19(12), 1289-1294.
INTRODUCTION
The 21
st
Century Cures Act was approved
and passed by both houses of Congress in
2016. It was later signed into law by
President Barack Obama in December of
2016.
The law covers many healthcare
aspects one of which is related to health
informatics.
The goals for
the formulation of the
formulation of the policy was to help in
modernizing and personalization of
healthcare, encouraging for greater
innovation, supporting of research, and
streamlining of the healthcare system
(Avorn & Kesselheim, 2015)
.
It was aimed a
t streamlining the discovery
of medicine through basic science and
unleashing the power of digital medicine
and social media at the treatment delivery
phase
(Majumder, Guerrini, Bollinger,
Cook
–
Deegan & McGuire, 2017)
.
IMPACT OF THE POLICY ON SYSTEM
IMPLEMENTATION
The policy enabled for the definition of
interoperability and prohibition of
information blocking. Information
blocking can be describe
d
as the practice
that prevents the access to electronic health
informatio
n
or any data that related to the
medical treatment of a patient.
IMPACT ON CLINICAL CARE AND
WORKFLOW
The following are the impact on the law on
clinical care and workflow:
Reduction of fraud in health care
leading to increased satisfaction of
patients
Increment in advances in access to
health information
Increment of access to care that is
enabled by health information
technology
Reduction in discriminatory efforts
which frust
r
ate
efforts which
enable interoperability.
ORGANI
ZATIONAL POLICIES
The following are organizational policies
which will be implemented to address the
regulation
:
Improvement of health information
systems to
allow for
interoperability.
Organization commitment to
fulfilling the regulation.
Punitive meas
ures for violators
within the company.
REFERENCES
Avorn, J., & Kesselheim, A. S.
(2015). The 21st Century Cures
Act
will it take us back in
time?.
New England Journal of
Medicine
,
372(26), 2473
–
2475.
Majumder, M. A., Guerrini, C. J.,
Bollinger, J. M.,
Cook
–
Deegan, R.,
& McGuire, A. L. (2017). Sharing
data under the 21st Century Cures
Act.
Genetics in Medicine
,
19(12),
1289
–
1294
.
INTRODUCTION
The 21
st
Century Cures Act was approved
and passed by both houses of Congress in
2016. It was later signed into law by
President Barack Obama in December of
2016. The law covers many healthcare
aspects one of which is related to health
informatics.
The goals for the formulation of the
formulation of the policy was to help in
modernizing and personalization of
healthcare, encouraging for greater
innovation, supporting of research, and
streamlining of the healthcare system
(Avorn & Kesselheim, 2015).
It was aimed at streamlining the discovery
of medicine through basic science and
unleashing the power of digital medicine
and social media at the treatment delivery
phase (Majumder, Guerrini, Bollinger,
Cook-Deegan & McGuire, 2017).
IMPACT OF THE POLICY ON SYSTEM
IMPLEMENTATION
The policy enabled for the definition of
interoperability and prohibition of
information blocking. Information
blocking can be described as the practice
that prevents the access to electronic health
information or any data that related to the
medical treatment of a patient.
IMPACT ON CLINICAL CARE AND
WORKFLOW
The following are the impact on the law on
clinical care and workflow:
Reduction of fraud in health care
leading to increased satisfaction of
patients
Increment in advances in access to
health information
Increment of access to care that is
enabled by health information
technology
Reduction in discriminatory efforts
which frustrate efforts which
enable interoperability.
ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES
The following are organizational policies
which will be implemented to address the
regulation:
Improvement of health information
systems to allow for
interoperability.
Organization commitment to
fulfilling the regulation.
Punitive measures for violators
within the company.
REFERENCES
Avorn, J., & Kesselheim, A. S.
(2015). The 21st Century Cures
Actwill it take us back in
time?. New England Journal of
Medicine, 372(26), 2473-2475.
Majumder, M. A., Guerrini, C. J.,
Bollinger, J. M., Cook-Deegan, R.,
& McGuire, A. L. (2017). Sharing
data under the 21st Century Cures
Act. Genetics in Medicine, 19(12),
1289-1294.
