In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.

In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate

In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate

Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet: 21st Century Cures Act

Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in December 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act includes a host of provisions that advance greater interoperability, embracement of electronic health records (EHRs) and speeds up the development of new treatment interventions through a host of methods that include sharing of data (HealthIT.gov, 2021). The provisions also require partnerships among health information exchange systems and health information technology certification requirements that encourage interoperability.

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Key provisions

• Data sharing to accelerate drug and device development
• Improving interoperability to enhance access to health information
• Establishment of secure “application program interface” for patients to access information
• Strengths and clarifies aspects of HIPAA law in regards to sharing information on mental health issues
• Help modernization and personalization of health care and encourage increased innovation and
• Support research as well as streamlining organizational systems (Martin, 2020).

Impact of 21st Century Cures Act

System Implementation

• It improves access and flow of health information in healthcare settings
• It enhances sharing of information for effective execution of system-wide decisions in healthcare organizations

Clinical Care

• It drives value specifically based in the level of clinical care provided to patients
• The act also improves interoperability and compliance to HIPAA regulations for clinical care providers in mental health and substance use disorders (Lengyel-Gomez, 2018).

Patient/Provider Interactions

• 21st Century Act provides new tools and resources to help the delivery of best patient care
• Enhances patient experience through improved access to and sharing of information
• Offers outcome measures associated with patient report and functional status

Workflow

• It simplifies the process of sharing information to enhance better workflow
• Allows providers to access information that is critical in effective workflows for patients
• Encourages the use of personal devices and apps to access information (Lye et al., 2018).

Organizational policies and Procedures to Address the Policy

The 21st Century Act requires effective organizational policies and procedures to help its effective implementation. These include:

• Having an information policy to guide the use of the provisions in the act
• Training employees on the significance of the policy
• Increasing patient awareness through effective interactions with providers in the facility

References

HealthIT.gov (2021).  Health IT Legislation.

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/health-it-legislation

Lengyel-Gomez, B. (2018). 21st Century Cures Act—A Summary.

https://www.himss.org/resources/21st-century-cures-act-summary

Lye, C. T., Forman, H. P., Daniel, J. G., & Krumholz, H. M. (2018). The 21st Century Cures Act

and electronic health records one year later: will patients see the benefits? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25(9), 1218-1220. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocy065.

Martin, M. (2020). The ethics of emergent health technologies: Implications of the 21st

century cures act for nursing. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 21(4), 195-201. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527154420947028

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 As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.
With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.
In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.
To Prepare:
• Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
• Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
• Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.
The Assignment: (1 page not including the title and reference page)
Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:
• Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
• Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
• Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
• Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.
• Use APA format and include a title page, in-text citations, and reference page.
• Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

Grading Rubric

Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:

· Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.

· Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.

· Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.

Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.