title: Implications of electronic health record meaningful use legislation for nursing clinical information system development and refinement.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe what electronic health record meaningful use requirements mean for nursing clinical information system (CIS) development.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The nursing CIS in many, if not most hospitals, has a number of critical design inadequacies that constrain the meaningful use of nursing data to ensure quality outcomes for patients and data-based maturing of the nursing profession.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is the responsibility and obligation of nurses to ensure that CISs are designed for the meaningful use of nursing clinical data. To accomplish these ends, interoperable clinical nursing data must be documented in a properly integrated operational CIS, and must be retrievable and stored in data repositories for analysis and reports.
authors: College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Winona State University, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors: Cindy A
authors: CA
authors: Scherb
authors: College of Nursing, John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
authors: Meridean L
authors: ML
authors: Maas
authors: College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
authors: Barbara J
authors: BJ
authors: Head
authors: College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
authors: Marion R
authors: MR
authors: Johnson
authors: Nebraska Methodist Health System, Omaha, Nebraska.
authors: Marie
authors: M
authors: Kozel
authors: Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Reed
authors: College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Swanson
authors: College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
authors: Sue
authors: S
authors: Moorhead
mesh_terms: D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D048108:Nursing Informatics