Industry Trends & Emerging Technologies Flashcards
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A skilled nursing facility joins an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) REACH model. The Medical Director's primary clinical responsibility under this arrangement is:
Answer: Leading care coordination efforts to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and ensure appropriate post-discharge follow-up
In ACO REACH, the Medical Director's clinical role centers on care coordination, transitions management, and reducing preventable hospitalizations to achieve shared savings.
Digital twin technology, if applied to long-term care facility operations, would most likely be used to:
Answer: Simulate care delivery scenarios and staffing models to optimize outcomes before implementing real-world changes
Digital twins create virtual models of facility operations enabling 'what-if' scenario testing of staffing ratios, care protocols, and workflow changes without real-world risk.
Under the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, what obligation does a SNF's EHR vendor have regarding patient data access?
Answer: Provide patients with access to their health data through standardized FHIR-based APIs without special effort
The 2020 CMS Interoperability Rule requires certified EHR systems to implement HL7 FHIR R4 APIs enabling patients to access their data through third-party apps.
A Medical Director is evaluating a fall prevention program that uses machine learning to analyze gait patterns via hallway sensors. Which outcome metric best demonstrates clinical effectiveness?
Answer: Reduction in injurious fall rate per 1,000 resident-days compared to pre-implementation baseline
Injurious fall rate per 1,000 resident-days is the validated clinical outcome that demonstrates real-world safety impact, not process metrics or vendor laboratory performance claims.
The 'quadruple aim' framework, which expanded the triple aim, added which dimension most relevant to technology adoption decisions?
Answer: Improving the work life and well-being of healthcare providers and care teams
The quadruple aim added clinician/care team well-being to the original triple aim of better outcomes, lower costs, and improved patient experience, recognizing burnout as a systems threat.
Electronic medication administration records (eMAR) with barcode scanning reduce which specific type of medication error most effectively?
Answer: Wrong patient and wrong medication administration errors at the point of care
Barcode-enabled eMAR catches wrong-patient and wrong-drug errors at the bedside by verifying the five rights electronically at the moment of administration.
A long-term care network is implementing a care transitions technology platform to reduce 30-day readmissions. Which feature is most evidence-supported for reducing readmissions?
Answer: Automated post-discharge follow-up calls and medication reconciliation alerts within 48–72 hours of discharge
Timely post-discharge follow-up with medication reconciliation within 48–72 hours is the intervention with the strongest evidence for reducing 30-day readmissions.