Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
Nursing Informatics is necessary to manage and control communication in healthcare facilities
and outpatient settings using policies designed for effective information systems implementation.
One of the current effective nursing informatics policies of the United States is the Medicare
Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) (Casalino, 2017). This US statute was
designed and passed as a healthcare policy in 2015 to enhance changes in the payment system for
doctors working on Medicare patients. It was
Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system
implementation.
The policy plays a significant role in the implementation of information systems in healthcare
facilities. Being bipartisan legislation, Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act was
signed into law in April 2015 and created the Quality Payment Program to manage and control
payment systems. For instance, MACRA streamlines several quality programs under the current
MIPS (Sweeney, 2017). Besides, it is responsible for repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate
formula.
Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care,
patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act is specifically designed to offer financial
and limited technical supports through cooperative agreements to improve, develop, update, or
even expand measures used in the Quality Payment Program in healthcare informatics (Lin,
MaCurdy, & Bhattacharya, 2017). All healthcare facility stakeholders felt the impact of this
policy through clinical care, patient to nurse interactions and workflow (Hussey, Liu, & White,