Give a short summary about the article Accelerating Progress

Give a short summary about the article, \"Accelerating Progress on EHR Adoption Rates and Achieving Meaningful Use.\"

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Nursing informatics has specific impact on the role of health care workers and clinicians to maintain efficient patient’s electronic health care records using information technology tools. It is easier to automate the aspects of acquisition of patient health information and management using \"accelerating progress on EHR (electronic health care record) and achieving meaningful use\". “The office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)” essentially promotes these further to generate EHR services for patients & health care workers in the communities for efficient patient\'s health outcome. Health care organization are mainly assisted to use EHR methodologies to provide service to patients & these programs are provided by Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

Nursing informatics in which EHR can be used for promoting clinical nurses to make ethical based health care decisions in the aspects of patient health. Every healthcare provider should think seriously to through the situation to deliver an efficient ethical based decision The ethical theories including principlism, justice, and fidelity should be applied in nursing, health care informatics & EHR adoption rates. Therefore, it can achieved more than 80% of EHR adoption rate by REC providers are in every state even in small health care practice providers in rural settings

EHR adoption rates can be increased mainly to achieve meaningful use in applying ethical theories of informatics that follow code ethical –professional conduct to protect patient rights, patient’s privacy of health information. An ethical framework in informatics should help healthcare practitioners to ethical treatment of electronic medical record & data collection, storage, manipulation and dissemination. Patient treatment computerization documentation, prescriptions are protected as per ethical perspectives during the

“Information management for patient safety (AACN, 2008)” Major ethical theories should be applied to protect patient privacy, security and preventing disclosure of patient confidentiality associated with electronic health care information

Reportable and Notifiable Disease Statistics by EHR adoption: This is method of informing to public and state health authorities about the notifiable communicable, infectious diseases, treatment and their clinical outcomes by the health care professional, physicians as per law. This is the method of maintaining electronic health record with statistical data and registry for the major vital events of births, death due to communicable diseases after conducting public health surveillance.

Electronic Data interchange (EDI) & EHR standards: The EDI 837 is a health care claim transaction set mainly deals with the health care claim and billing the information form provides to payers based on electronic health care information. For example, state mental health agency deals with the all health care claims involving all health care practitioners, dentists etc. This is mainly deals with payment responsibilities & regarding health care insurance etc.