WGU D033 TESTED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FINAL PAPER
◉ chargemaster (charge description master [CDM])
Answer: financial management form or software that contains
information about the healthcare facility's charges for the services
it provides to patients
◉ Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)
Answer: process an organization undertakes that will improve
clinical specificity and documentation that will allow coding
professionals to assign more concise disease and procedural
classification codes
◉ Executive information system (EIS)
Answer: decision support system that is designed to be used by
healthcare administrators. As such, it must be easy to use and
have access to a wide range of data. With the EIS, a lot of graphs
and charts generally are used as part of the results.
◉ soundex
Answer: Phonetic-based indexing system that is easily
incorporated into computer software for searching surnames that
sound alike but are spelled differently
,◉ Enterprise master patient index (EMPI)
Answer: provides access to multiple repositories of information
from overlapping patient populations that are maintained in
separate information systems and databases. Arrangement of a
network of health providers that may include hospitals,
physicians that provide coordinated services along the continuum
of care from ambulatory, acute, and long-term care and may
extend across a geographical region
◉ chief clinical informatics officer
Answer: works with clinical providers, such as physicians and
nurses, to lead them in the use of technology to improve quality of
care, medical education, and healthcare research. Is a "big picture"
role, works to ensure that the technologies needed by the
healthcare providers are identified and ultimately implemented
◉ director of clinical informatics
Answer: leader in the implementation of the EHR as well as the
post-implementation services
◉ mapping specialist
Answer: creates maps between systems such as vocabularies and
classification systems
◉ clinical informatics coordinator
, Answer: requires knowledge of clinical information systems. They
are experts in the data retrieval needed by healthcare providers
while conducting patient care
◉ Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Answer: responsible for protecting data from unauthorized
access, alteration, and destruction
◉ Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Answer: assists in the development of the healthcare facility's
strategic business plan in relation to information systems and
technology. Their goal is to ensure the healthcare facility operates
effectively and that they are competitive with other healthcare
facilities within their community
◉ content analyst
Answer: designs the clinical information system that will be
implemented. Their work is directed by the needs of the users.
◉ interface
Answer: takes data from one system and plugs that data into
another IS. Acts as a bridge between two ISs or databases to
translate data into each IS's respective language
◉ Best of breed
SOLUTIONS FINAL PAPER
◉ chargemaster (charge description master [CDM])
Answer: financial management form or software that contains
information about the healthcare facility's charges for the services
it provides to patients
◉ Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)
Answer: process an organization undertakes that will improve
clinical specificity and documentation that will allow coding
professionals to assign more concise disease and procedural
classification codes
◉ Executive information system (EIS)
Answer: decision support system that is designed to be used by
healthcare administrators. As such, it must be easy to use and
have access to a wide range of data. With the EIS, a lot of graphs
and charts generally are used as part of the results.
◉ soundex
Answer: Phonetic-based indexing system that is easily
incorporated into computer software for searching surnames that
sound alike but are spelled differently
,◉ Enterprise master patient index (EMPI)
Answer: provides access to multiple repositories of information
from overlapping patient populations that are maintained in
separate information systems and databases. Arrangement of a
network of health providers that may include hospitals,
physicians that provide coordinated services along the continuum
of care from ambulatory, acute, and long-term care and may
extend across a geographical region
◉ chief clinical informatics officer
Answer: works with clinical providers, such as physicians and
nurses, to lead them in the use of technology to improve quality of
care, medical education, and healthcare research. Is a "big picture"
role, works to ensure that the technologies needed by the
healthcare providers are identified and ultimately implemented
◉ director of clinical informatics
Answer: leader in the implementation of the EHR as well as the
post-implementation services
◉ mapping specialist
Answer: creates maps between systems such as vocabularies and
classification systems
◉ clinical informatics coordinator
, Answer: requires knowledge of clinical information systems. They
are experts in the data retrieval needed by healthcare providers
while conducting patient care
◉ Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Answer: responsible for protecting data from unauthorized
access, alteration, and destruction
◉ Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Answer: assists in the development of the healthcare facility's
strategic business plan in relation to information systems and
technology. Their goal is to ensure the healthcare facility operates
effectively and that they are competitive with other healthcare
facilities within their community
◉ content analyst
Answer: designs the clinical information system that will be
implemented. Their work is directed by the needs of the users.
◉ interface
Answer: takes data from one system and plugs that data into
another IS. Acts as a bridge between two ISs or databases to
translate data into each IS's respective language
◉ Best of breed
