Informatics and nursing

Please answer the following case

As the only informatics nurse at your small community hospital your chief nursing officer heavily relies upon you to translate major developments in policy and reimbursement that have direct implications for the department and facility. How would you go about explaining the relationship between standardized terminologies and financial regards related to Meaningful Use?

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To improve health, common data elements and consistent standards are the basis for the success of care models. This has been brought up by the fast adoption of health IT, making more accurate and simplifying measurement of the quality of the delivered care and improving research and analysis.

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