| About the Authors | |
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Shirley Eichenwald Maki, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Healthcare Informatics and Information Management at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN. She is currently the Project Director for The ATHENS Project which is one of the first initiatives in health professions’ education in the nation to focus on the development and implementation of an electronic health record system for use by faculty and students as an educational tool. Eichenwald Maki is a Fellow of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), an appointed member of the CCHIT Certification Process Work Group, and the current Chairperson of the AHIMA Research Committee. |
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Bonnie Petterson, Ph.D, RHIA is Chair of the Health Information Management Department at Phoenix College, one of ten Maricopa County Community Colleges in Phoenix, AZ. Bonnie has also been a full-time health information administrator in a variety of settings, and has consulted in ambulatory, long term, and home health care. She currently participates on the Arizona Governor’s Health-e Connection Legal Task Force, a component of the electronic health record initiative for the state. |
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| About the Book | |
| The book provides learners with a thorough understanding of both the terminology of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems and the practical use of such systems in a healthcare provider office setting. | |
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exercises with EHR software provides a complete learning system. • Emphasis
on developing confidence and skills • Separate
discussions of each EHR component as • Instructor's
Resource CD with Instructor's |
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| About the Software | |
| MedWare Chart EHR software provides step-by-step, hands-on experiences similar to what will be encountered in a healthcare provider office. | |
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• Step-by-step directions to give users confidence
using the software • Supported by many screen captures of the actual software, showing how screens should populated with data • Activities designed to give the user practice working in an EHR, such as entering patient demographic data; adding drug names, routes, dose units, and instructions; building a SOAP note template; adding and editing data in a patient’s chart; and adding vital signs. |
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