WGU C427 TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN
HEALTHCARE UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Healthcare Management Information System (HMIS)
Answer:
One of the six building blocks essential for health system strengthening. Is a data collection system
specifically designed to support planning, management, and decision making in health facilities and
organizations.
Question:
2. Protected Health Information (PHI)
Answer:
The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered
entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy
Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and
other important purposes.
Question:
3. Health Information Portability and Protection Act (HIPAA)
Answer:
Enacted on August 21, 1996, by the U.S. Congress to accelerate the development of data standards to
improve the privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and security aspects of personal health information and to
simplify the movement of individual patients' protected health information (PHI) between healthcare
professionals and other covered entities that require the information, such as insurance companies
Question:
4. Health Level 7 (HL7)
Answer:
Accredited by ANSI, is a system development organization whose aim is to promote interoperability for
the interchange of healthcare data. "Level Seven" refers to the highest level of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) communications model for open-systems interconnection
(OSI)—the application level.12 Built on existing production protocols, predominantly those of ASTM
Standard 1238. It operates as a nonprofit volunteer-, vendor-, and provider-supported organization to
encourage information scientists and various experts in the healthcare field to endeavor toward the
development of standards for the management, processing, integration, and exchange of electronic
healthcare information.
Question:
5. American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
, Answer:
Oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact
businesses in nearly every sector: from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and
livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. Also actively engaged in accreditation -
assessing the competence of organizations determining conformance to standards.
Question:
6. Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Answer:
allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and patients to appropriately access and
securely share a patient's vital medical information electronically—improving the speed, quality, safety
and cost of patient care
Question:
7. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
Answer:
The standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data.
Question:
8. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Answer:
international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
Question:
9. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)
Answer:
part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Created to motivate the
implementation of electronic health records (EHR) and supporting technology in the United States.
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) `Computer tools
Question:
10. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Answer:
A computer application that allows a physician's orders for diagnostic and treatment services (such as
medications, laboratory, and other tests) to be entered electronically instead of being recorded on order
sheets or prescription pads. The computer compares the order against standards for dosing, checks for
allergies or interactions with other medications, and warns the physician about potential problems.
Question:
11. Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)
Answer:
software system that records, manages, and stores data for clinical laboratories. Traditionally been most
adept at sending laboratory test orders to lab instruments, tracking those orders, and then recording the
results, typically to a searchable database
Question:
12. Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
HEALTHCARE UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Healthcare Management Information System (HMIS)
Answer:
One of the six building blocks essential for health system strengthening. Is a data collection system
specifically designed to support planning, management, and decision making in health facilities and
organizations.
Question:
2. Protected Health Information (PHI)
Answer:
The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered
entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy
Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and
other important purposes.
Question:
3. Health Information Portability and Protection Act (HIPAA)
Answer:
Enacted on August 21, 1996, by the U.S. Congress to accelerate the development of data standards to
improve the privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and security aspects of personal health information and to
simplify the movement of individual patients' protected health information (PHI) between healthcare
professionals and other covered entities that require the information, such as insurance companies
Question:
4. Health Level 7 (HL7)
Answer:
Accredited by ANSI, is a system development organization whose aim is to promote interoperability for
the interchange of healthcare data. "Level Seven" refers to the highest level of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) communications model for open-systems interconnection
(OSI)—the application level.12 Built on existing production protocols, predominantly those of ASTM
Standard 1238. It operates as a nonprofit volunteer-, vendor-, and provider-supported organization to
encourage information scientists and various experts in the healthcare field to endeavor toward the
development of standards for the management, processing, integration, and exchange of electronic
healthcare information.
Question:
5. American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
, Answer:
Oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact
businesses in nearly every sector: from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and
livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. Also actively engaged in accreditation -
assessing the competence of organizations determining conformance to standards.
Question:
6. Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Answer:
allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and patients to appropriately access and
securely share a patient's vital medical information electronically—improving the speed, quality, safety
and cost of patient care
Question:
7. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
Answer:
The standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data.
Question:
8. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Answer:
international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
Question:
9. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)
Answer:
part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Created to motivate the
implementation of electronic health records (EHR) and supporting technology in the United States.
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) `Computer tools
Question:
10. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Answer:
A computer application that allows a physician's orders for diagnostic and treatment services (such as
medications, laboratory, and other tests) to be entered electronically instead of being recorded on order
sheets or prescription pads. The computer compares the order against standards for dosing, checks for
allergies or interactions with other medications, and warns the physician about potential problems.
Question:
11. Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)
Answer:
software system that records, manages, and stores data for clinical laboratories. Traditionally been most
adept at sending laboratory test orders to lab instruments, tracking those orders, and then recording the
results, typically to a searchable database
Question:
12. Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
