Which of the following is not a social force that is driving the adoption of EHR?
A) Consumers' increasing expectation that health information be available both quickly and securely over the Internet
B) Patients' increasing tendency to remain in the care of a single healthcare provider for a period of several years or more
C) Employer and insurer concerns about the connection between poor quality care and rising healthcare costs
D) Widespread concern about the number of preventable medical errors that occur each year in the United States
Question 2
In which of the following scenarios is the EHR functioning in an order management capacity, as described by the IOM?
A) When a physician types the prescribed dose of a particular medication into a patient's electronic health record, the system generates a warning stating that this dose is dangerously high and may have been entered incorrectly.
B) Whenever a particular drug is recalled, a practice's electronic records system generates a list of all patients who are taking this medication so they can be immediately notified of the recall.
C) After a patient undergoes laboratory testing to determine his serum cholesterol levels, the electronic health records system automatically emails him a copy of the test results.
D) Each week, a hospital's electronic health records system transmits information regarding all new cases of reportable diseases to the county health department.
