Electronic Health Records (EHR)

What is expected to become a major business growth area over the next decade?

Who is working to encourage device vendors to adopt communications standards?

How many device standards have the Food and Drug Administration defined to encourage the development of interoperable devices?

What is necessary to solve the interoperability problem according to the text?

Which group has enlisted many large healthcare systems to encourage device vendors to adopt communication standards?

What is an electronic health record (EHR)?

Why are many hospitals struggling to automate the capture of raw data into EHRs from patient monitoring devices?

What is one promise associated with EHRs according to the text?

Why do hospitals sometimes need to create new software middleware layers?

What challenge arises when a hospital wants to use a new vital sign monitoring device?

EHRs hold out the promise of improving health care and reducing ______

Specialized software is required to receive the data and translate it into a form suitable for updating the ______

Many hospitals are struggling to automate the capture of raw data from patient monitoring devices and pass the data directly into each patient’s ______

Different devices and vendors often use different standards for communicating over the ______

Each new piece of monitoring equipment that outputs a nonstandard signal requires a new interface with the ______

Many software vendors and device manufacturers are moving quickly to capitalize on the opportunities involved with automating the many clinical-support activities that involve ______ devices.

The Center for Medical Interoperability has enlisted many of the nation’s largest healthcare systems as part of its effort to strongly encourage device vendors to adopt communications standards that will ease the problems with ______.

The Food and Drug Administration is working to encourage the development of ______ devices by defining some 25 device standards.

Solving the interoperability problem will require an agreement on standards through the cooperation of multiple ______.

Connecting monitoring devices and EHRs is expected to become a major business growth area over the next ______.