Key Legislation Shaping HIT Use and Impacting Nursing Practice
You have read about HITECH Act, HIPAA, ARRA, and electronic signatures. Summarize the intent of one of these laws and its impact on your practice.
Issues Surrounding Personal Health Information (PHI) Ownership
With an electronic health record, what do you see as a positive and a negative consequence of the legislation that enables patients to be able to correct the health information in their records?