Chapter 10 Test: Healthcare Technology Exam Questions and Answers(Verified Answers)

biosensor -ANSWER -a piece of technology that can keep track of a person's heart rate, breathing, and temperature biotechnology -ANSWER -technology that uses biological processes, organisms, or systems to develop products intended to improve the quality of human life cloning -ANSWER -the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another computer on wheels (COW) -ANSWER -a mobile computer used to access and enter patient information while moving around the healthcare facility electronic health record (EHR) -ANSWER -a digital record that contains information about a patient and includes his or her entire medical history and all of his or her healthcare experiences electronic medical record (EMR) -ANSWER -a digital record that contains information from a single medical practice or a single stay in one healthcare facility genetic engineering -ANSWER -the manipulation of genetic materials to eliminate undesirable traits or to ensure desirable traits handoff reports -ANSWER -documents used during a shift change or change in the level of patient care to explain a patient's current situation healthcare simulation -ANSWER -the use of learning tools to show what a medical emergency looks like or how a healthcare procedure is performed Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) -ANSWER -legislation passed to improve healthcare through increased use of health information technology