HIT-001 · Question #119
Federal Health Care Reform mandates the beginning of movement to electronic medical records for all hospitals and clinics starting in 2015, and this impacts rural hospital especially hard. As a…
The correct answer is A. Rural hospitals band together to make best use of healthcare IT professionals and resources and B. The federal government awards grants to help with implementation of electronic records and some C. There is a real shortage of Healthcare IT professionals in rural settings. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Federal Health Care Reform mandates the beginning of movement to electronic medical records for all hospitals and clinics starting in 2015, and this impacts rural hospital especially hard. As a healthcare IT professional, if you are hired at a rural hospital to help convert a paper based system to an electronic health record system you may be working with limited resources and higher levels of responsibility, but make a big impact. Which of the following is true about healthcare IT opportunities at rural hospitals?
Options
- ARural hospitals band together to make best use of healthcare IT professionals and resources and
- BThe federal government awards grants to help with implementation of electronic records and some
- CThere is a real shortage of Healthcare IT professionals in rural settings.
- DThere is an exception for rural hospitals in the electronic medical record requirements.
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A71% (27)
- D29% (11)
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