POLICY/REGULATION FACT SHEET 020224

POLICY/REGULATION FACT SHEET 020224

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 with these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.

In this, 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 020224

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, 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.

 

RESOURCES

• McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2022). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge(5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 8, “Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: HIPAA, HITECH and Beyond” (pp. 161–181)
• American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (2018). MACRA/MIPS: The transition from fee-for-service to quality-based reimbursementLinks to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.aanp.org/legislation-regulation/federal-legislation/macra-s-quality-payment-program
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (n.d.). MACRALinks to an external site.. Retrieved January 18, 2019, from https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/value-based-programs/macra-mips-and-apms/macra-mips-and-apms.html
• gov. (2018a). Health IT legislationLinks to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/health-it-legislationLinks to an external site.
• gov. (2018b). Meaningful use and MACRALinks to an external site.. Retrieved from
  https://www.healthit.gov/topic/meaningful-use-and-macra/meaningful-use-and-macra
• S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). Laws & RegulationsLinks to an external site.. Retrieved September 27, 2018, from https://www.hhs.gov/regulations/index.html

 

To Prepare:

 

Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.