Sam Vincente works in an acute care hospital as a critical care nurse. All of the devices that monitor a patient’s vital signs automatically populate the vital signs data to the patient’s electronic record except for one. The hospital has purchased new respirometers, which automatically measure a patient’s respiratory rate. The devices function well. They have display panels and also produce digital data that could automatically populate the part of the patient’s record called a flowsheet, but it is in the wrong format and is incompatible with the patient’s EHR. At 10-minute intervals, Sam has to manually calculate a patient’s respiratory rate and then enter it into the record. Based on this scenario, what would be a solution to this problem?

A. Use middleware to format the data so that the EHR system will accept it.
B. Leave things as they are. Entering the respiration is not that big a task.
C. Replace the EHR software with a system that is more compatible with patient monitoring devices.
D.Replace respiration monitors with monitors that are compatible with the EHR.