Acute, Ambulatory, and Inpatient Settings and their EHR Needs

Running head: ACUTE, AMBULATORY, AND INPATIENT SETTINGS & EHR NEEDS
Acute, Ambulatory, and Inpatient Settings and their EHR Needs
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Acute, Ambulatory, and Inpatient Settings and their EHR Needs
Meaningful Use
There are no differences in meaningful of EHR systems in ambulatory care settings,
acute, and inpatient settings. All EHR systems should meet the need of the hospital and patients
by ensuring that they improve quality, safety, efficiency, and minimization of disparities in the
hospital settings.
Certification
The EHR needs for ambulatory care has to cater for basic information about the patient
and the family members because the patient does not spend time in the hospital. According to
Clevan (2016), vendors designing EHR for acute care setting should make changes to the system
so that it can detect and correct errors that occur in records. The certification for acute care and
inpatient setting require computerized physician order entry (CPOEs). This is not required for
ambulatory care settings. According to McAlearney, Sieck, Hefner, Robbins, and Huerta (2013),
EHR systems designed for ambulatory settings should also play a role in diagnosing with the
goal of knowing where to place the patient.
Referral and Laboratory Software
There is also difference in electronic prescribing for both inpatient and ambulatory EHRs.
Ambulatory EHR systems deal with orders for medications from external pharmacies and
vendors. On the other hand, the inpatient and acute care settings rely on internal processes and
medications with high levels of accuracy. This implies that both acute and inpatient software
require internl referral requirements for accessing physical laboratory data about the patient.
Interconnectivity