NR512 WEEK 2 INFORMATICS KEY TERMS QUIZ
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
◉ Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Answer: A consortium of
regional healthcare organizations that collects data, publishes
comparative information, supports and promotes electronic
standards, educates, and researches.
◉ National Health Information Infrastructure. Answer: An initiative
intended to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall quality
of health and health care in the United States. A comprehensive
knowledge-based network of interoperable systems of clinical,
public health, and personal health information that would improve
decision making by making health information available when and
where it is needed. The set of technologies, standards, applications,
systems, values, and laws that support all facets of individual health,
health care, and public health. The NHII is voluntary and not a
centralized database of medical records or a government regulation.
◉ Output. Answer: Changes that exit a system and that can activate
or modify processing.
◉ Processing. Answer: Acting on something by taking it through
established procedures so as to convert it from one form to another.
,Examples include the processing of information into data, and the
processing of a credit application to get a loan.
◉ Rapid Syndromic Validation Project. Answer: System where local
healthcare professionals report cases such as influenza. Data are
analyzed centrally, and the resulting information is shared with
appropriate local authorities in an attempt to identify outbreaks
early and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
◉ Report. Answer: Documents that contain data or information
based on a query or investigation designed to yield customized
content in relation to a situation and a user, group of users, or an
organization. Designed to inform, reports may include
recommendations or suggestions based on programming and other
embedded parameters.
◉ Social Sciences. Answer: Collection of academic/scientific fields or
disciplines concerned with the study of the human aspects of our
world/environment.
◉ Stakeholder. Answer: An individual or group with the
responsibility for completing a project and influencing the overall
design, and that is most impacted by success or failure of the system
implementation.
,◉ Summaries. Answer: A condensed version of the original designed
to highlight its major points.
◉ Synthesis. Answer: Combining parts of existing material or ideas
into a new entity or concept.
◉ Telecommunications. Answer: Broadcasting or transmitting
signals over a distance from one person to another person or from
one location to another location for the purpose of communication.
◉ Applications. Answer: The implementation software of a
computer system. This software allows users to complete tasks such
as word processing, developing presentations, and managing data.
◉ Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). Answer: Essential building block of
the central processing unit of a computer that digitally performs
arithmetic and logical functions.
◉ Basic input/Output system (BIOS). Answer: a system that resides
or is embedded on a chip that recognizes and controls a computer's
devices.
◉ Bit. Answer: Unit of measurement that holds one binary digit, 0 or
1. The smallest possible chunk of data memory used in computer
processing, making up the binary system of the computer.
, ◉ Bus. Answer: Subsystem that transfers data between a computer's
internal components or between computers.
◉ Byte. Answer: Unit of memory equal to eight bits or eight
informational storage units, which represents one keystroke (e.g.,
any push of a key on a keyboard such as pressing the space bar, a
lowercase "a" or an uppercase "T"). It is considered the best way to
indicate computer memory or storage capacity.
◉ Cache memory. Answer: Smaller and faster memory storage used
by a computer's central processing unit to store copies of frequently
used data in main memory.
◉ Central Processing unit (CPU). Answer: Processors that execute
computer programs, thought of as the brain controlling the
functioning of the computer; the computer component that actually
executes, calculates, and processes the binary computer code
instigated by the operating system and other applications on the
computer. It serves as the command center that directs the actions of
all other components of the computer, and manages both incoming
and outgoing data.
◉ Communication Software. Answer: Technology programs used to
transmit messages via e-mail, telephonically, paging, broadcast (such
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
◉ Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Answer: A consortium of
regional healthcare organizations that collects data, publishes
comparative information, supports and promotes electronic
standards, educates, and researches.
◉ National Health Information Infrastructure. Answer: An initiative
intended to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall quality
of health and health care in the United States. A comprehensive
knowledge-based network of interoperable systems of clinical,
public health, and personal health information that would improve
decision making by making health information available when and
where it is needed. The set of technologies, standards, applications,
systems, values, and laws that support all facets of individual health,
health care, and public health. The NHII is voluntary and not a
centralized database of medical records or a government regulation.
◉ Output. Answer: Changes that exit a system and that can activate
or modify processing.
◉ Processing. Answer: Acting on something by taking it through
established procedures so as to convert it from one form to another.
,Examples include the processing of information into data, and the
processing of a credit application to get a loan.
◉ Rapid Syndromic Validation Project. Answer: System where local
healthcare professionals report cases such as influenza. Data are
analyzed centrally, and the resulting information is shared with
appropriate local authorities in an attempt to identify outbreaks
early and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
◉ Report. Answer: Documents that contain data or information
based on a query or investigation designed to yield customized
content in relation to a situation and a user, group of users, or an
organization. Designed to inform, reports may include
recommendations or suggestions based on programming and other
embedded parameters.
◉ Social Sciences. Answer: Collection of academic/scientific fields or
disciplines concerned with the study of the human aspects of our
world/environment.
◉ Stakeholder. Answer: An individual or group with the
responsibility for completing a project and influencing the overall
design, and that is most impacted by success or failure of the system
implementation.
,◉ Summaries. Answer: A condensed version of the original designed
to highlight its major points.
◉ Synthesis. Answer: Combining parts of existing material or ideas
into a new entity or concept.
◉ Telecommunications. Answer: Broadcasting or transmitting
signals over a distance from one person to another person or from
one location to another location for the purpose of communication.
◉ Applications. Answer: The implementation software of a
computer system. This software allows users to complete tasks such
as word processing, developing presentations, and managing data.
◉ Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). Answer: Essential building block of
the central processing unit of a computer that digitally performs
arithmetic and logical functions.
◉ Basic input/Output system (BIOS). Answer: a system that resides
or is embedded on a chip that recognizes and controls a computer's
devices.
◉ Bit. Answer: Unit of measurement that holds one binary digit, 0 or
1. The smallest possible chunk of data memory used in computer
processing, making up the binary system of the computer.
, ◉ Bus. Answer: Subsystem that transfers data between a computer's
internal components or between computers.
◉ Byte. Answer: Unit of memory equal to eight bits or eight
informational storage units, which represents one keystroke (e.g.,
any push of a key on a keyboard such as pressing the space bar, a
lowercase "a" or an uppercase "T"). It is considered the best way to
indicate computer memory or storage capacity.
◉ Cache memory. Answer: Smaller and faster memory storage used
by a computer's central processing unit to store copies of frequently
used data in main memory.
◉ Central Processing unit (CPU). Answer: Processors that execute
computer programs, thought of as the brain controlling the
functioning of the computer; the computer component that actually
executes, calculates, and processes the binary computer code
instigated by the operating system and other applications on the
computer. It serves as the command center that directs the actions of
all other components of the computer, and manages both incoming
and outgoing data.
◉ Communication Software. Answer: Technology programs used to
transmit messages via e-mail, telephonically, paging, broadcast (such
