Choose the right word

• The clinic director hopes to ___ the patient admission process at Johns Hopkins Hospital. [streamline / outdated / interoperability]
• That paper-based filing system in Boston is completely ___ and needs replacing. [frontline staff / outdated / trolley wait]
• Doctors praised the new electronic health record system installed in London. [electronic health record / exit block / front door]
• Poor interoperability between NHS trusts in Manchester prevents smooth patient record transfers. [interoperability / system pressure / winter crisis]
• Exhausted frontline staff in Chicago held a meeting to demand better shift rotas. [policymaker / frontline staff / agency staff]
• Every health policymaker in Washington must address the rising costs of acute care. [policymaker / locum / bureaucracy]
• A prolonged trolley wait in the Seattle emergency room caused immense distress to elderly patients. [trolley wait / red tape / bed block]
• Failing to meet the four-hour target in Birmingham leads to severe financial penalties. [four-hour target / corridor care / delayed discharge]
• Exit block in the acute medical unit prevents stable patients from moving to ward beds in Oxford. [exit block / underfunding / overcrowding]
• Extreme system pressure forced the London hospital to cancel all non-urgent operations. [system pressure / health system reform / rota gaps]
• The impending winter crisis in British hospitals demands immediate contingency planning. [winter crisis / streamline / interoperability]
• Triage nurses at the front door of Mayo Clinic quickly assess incoming trauma cases. [front door / electronic health record / outdated]

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