The Emergency Department Information Exchange Database Was Designed to Address

question 32

Multiple Choice

The Emergency Department Information Exchange database was designed to address which of the following problems?

• A)Ambulance drivers needed a way to communicate with the hospital when they were at a patient's location.
• B)Communication between doctors and nurses is hindered by systems that don't display the correct data.
• C)Emergency surgeries result in too many drugs being administered to the patient.
• D)With the expansion of the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid patients visit hospital ERs too many times.

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