Networking and Health Information Exchange: Supporting Standards for EHR

Application

Application Activities

Application 1: Name three areas in which you think clinical guidelines might be useful
and why do you think these might be useful.

Instructor Guidelines for Application 1: The purpose of this application is to make sure
that the student understands clinical guidelines and how to use them. Answers may
vary.

Expected Outcomes for Application 1: Almost any disease or process that includes
decisions or conditional pathways. Typical answers might include patients with
diabetes, patients with asthma, or for teaching new mothers about breast-feeding.
There are almost unlimited answers to this question. Of importance is the students
response of why guidelines might be useful. Reasons might include complexity of flow
and decision making, for consistency, for completeness, or for ease in documenting a
procedure. There are other reasons that would be acceptable.

Objective: 1-6
Lectures: a, b, c

Application 2: Why do you think guidelines have not been generally accepted?

Instructor Guidelines for Application 2: The purpose of this application is to have

students think about guidelines. Answers may vary.

Expected Outcomes for Application 2: Many think guidelines are constraining limit
free thinking. Some refer to guidelines as cook-book medicine. Others believe that
guidelines are wrong or dont fit their patient. For others, it is not the way they normally
treat their patients. Others dont take the time. There might be other creative answers.

Objective: 1-6
Lectures: a, b, c

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Lectures a, b, c, d

This material Comp9_Unit7 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.