Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments, if possible. You may also utilize LIRN for your research. For concise APA formatting guidelines and LIRN guidelines, please visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC). Your answer to each question should be at least one page in length and utilize APA guidelines.

1. Describe the Dashboard and identify three key features and state why they are important to know.

2. In the Head of Household data block, which would you select if a patient is a single or married male? What would you select if the patient is a married female or a child? Explain the reasoning behind this differentiation.

3. Explain the process of locating information using the Message area of the Practice Partner software.

4. Identify 3 additional EHR features that have not been discussed in the questions above and describe each of their functions.

PART II: Journal

Describe your understanding of how the EHR is used in the medical setting. How does this streamline data and one's ability to abstract information? Which functions of the EHR do you find to be the most challenging or illogical within the software? Which functions do you find to be indispensible to either the patient's privacy or safety? Your response should be at least three pages in length and utilize APA guidelines.