You have been chosen to participate in the selection team for a new clinical information system to be purchased and implemented at the community hospital where you are a staff nurse. The selection team has been asked to develop an initial list of requirements that they would like to use for the evaluation of potential systems in relation to documentation of assessments for interprofessional use, including nursing, physicians, and some other departments such as physical therapy and occupational therapy.
Your task for this case study is to use the key considerations listed below to develop a list of system requirements for electronic documentation in a clinical information system, grouping the requirements into the four categories listed above. The key considerations include information that the selection team has gathered in anticipation of developing system requirements.
The selection team has decided to group the requirements that they identify into the following categories:
Patient Care Objectives
Usability
Information Technology Department Objectives
Organization Objectives
Looking at the available EHR systems, pick the one that you would use and identify how the four categories match with that system. In the discussion synthesize current challenges for information infrastructure.
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