AH3

Practice Models, Electronic Health Records, and Networking

After reading Chapter 9 - 12, submit a written response to the following items using your own words. Your response should be 400-600 words, using APA style formatting.

What differences exist between home health, palliative care, hospice, public health, nurse-managed health centers, and other practice models? What do you think of key public health applications for infectious and chronic disease? What factors would you modify to improve the exchange of information between public health and clinical systems? Distinguish between key technical components of electronic health records and their interrelationships What do you see as other possible outcomes or networking arrangements for regional health information (RHIOs), health information exchanges (HIEs), and health information organizations (HIOs)?