PRACTICE SCRIPT UPDATED 2026 TESTED
SOLUTIONS
⫸ Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Answer:
Supports research designed to improve outcomes and quality of
healthcare.
⫸ Asynchronous Applications Answer: No contact with the patient for
data collection.
⫸ Asynchronous communication examples Answer: Remote pt
monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data
w/ providers, store & forward apps (ex: photos)
⫸ Administrative Information System Answer: includes registration and
scheduling, tracking through admission, transfer and discharge, patient
acuity and staff scheduling, financial or accounting systems, risk
management, payroll, and hr, quality assurance and contract
management functions
⫸ Affordable Care Act Answer: law passed in 2010 to expand access to
insurance, address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality
of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
, ⫸ Alarm fatigue Answer: The phenomenon of nurses becoming
desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or delaying their
response to the alarm
⫸ artificial intelligence Answer: Use of algorithms and other
technologies to mimic human cognition and predict outcomes
⫸ Audit trail Answer: a report that traces who has accessed electronic
information, when information was accessed, and whether any
information was changed
⫸ Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) Answer: **Mandated
by the FDA** Real-time, automated documentation of patient's
medication. Needs CPOE, A pharmacy system, & an EMAR system to
function.
⫸ Benchmarking Answer: A process of continuously measuring system
results, comparing those results to optimal system performance
(benchmark values), and identifying steps and procedures to improve
system performance
⫸ Biometrics Answer: the identification of a user based on a physical
characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
⫸ Checklists Answer: another simple way of gathering data in order to
organize facts in an easy way so an issue or problem can be reviewed in
more detail.