UPDATE: TONL & TNA Collaborative HIT Committee

Re: State Survey on Nurses’ Experiences with EHRs

The TONL/TNA HIT Committee has launched a Repeat HIT Survey to re-evaluate and incorporate changing needs of Texas nurses in usability, interoperability, safety and quality of the electronic record in caring for patients. At present, 1,000 responses have been received. Rural proportions continue to be low, but they are improving at 12%, was 20% in 2015. Responses not proportionate for known EHR providers, specifically of concern is the missed feedback from nurses using Cerner EHR – currently underrepresented at 8%.
 
TONL Members  

What you can do?

Encourage rural hospitals and hospitals with Cerner EHR to complete the survey.

Upcoming:

Address Practice Needs – of Rural & Urban Healthcare Facilities – with development of a Nurse Panel to identify and address practice needs.

Discuss the impact of federal regulation by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Cures Act.  The rule is designed to give patients and their healthcare providers secure access to health information. It includes a provision requiring that patients can electronically access all their electronic health information (EHI) both structured and unstructured at no cost. The act also sets standards for the healthcare industry to adopt standardized application programming interfaces (APIs), which will help allow individuals to securely and easily access structured electronic health information using smartphone applications. https://www.healthit.gov/curesrule/

Disseminate Information – present HIT information through TONL Webinars, with exemplars of how EMR issues are addressed and resolved as puzzles instead of unsolvable problems.
Resource: HIT Toolkit created by the HIT TNA/TONL Collaborative Committee   https://www.texasnurses.org/page/HIT