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WGU D033
Jeremiah
Practice questions for this set
Terms in this set (170)
an automated system that uses computer hardware and software to record, manipulate,
Information System store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that receives and processes input
and provides output)
software applications that handle patient accounts, budgets, and other financial
Financial applications
activities
WGU D033
large computers that are used by the government and other organizations that require
Mainframe computers
speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
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Dumb Terminals all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing a system that operates on a computer that is owned and maintained by a vendor.
a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however, its servers are
Intranet located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot gain
access to information housed within the network
the exchange of health information electronically between providers and others with
Health Information Exchange
the same level of interoperability.
healthcare services based on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested
Evidence-based medicine
through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses
Clinical pathways
and treatments
provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make
clinical practice guidelines knowledge-based decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative
organization such as a medical society.
scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and
Health Informatics communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the
information science and technology to support these tasks
the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that
Data Analytics
information
process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for the
Data mining purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using
those relationships to predict behaviors.
reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to assist with strategic
dashboards
planning
set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as means, frequency
descriptive statistics distributions, and standard deviations; describes the characteristics of a specific group
or a population
set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make generalizations about a
inferential statistics
population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's characteristics,
process used to identify patterns that can be used to predict the odds of a particular
predictive modeling outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is
likely to happen in the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA) advanced certification covers data management, data analytics, and data reporting
collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical ancillary areas (such as radiology and
Clinical Information Systems
laboratory), and therapy department information related to patient care
document management system electronic method of capturing and managing documents.
pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and, ultimately, the computer
target sheets
the content of the pages that follow
large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has a large amount of
file server
memory and magnetic hard drive
abstracting and quality control workstation workstation is used for indexing and quality control
process of scanning past health records into the DMS so there is an existing database
backscanning
of patient information
symbiology format; for barcodes it is Code 39, also known as Code 3 of 9
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WGU D033
Jeremiah
Practice questions for this set
Terms in this set (170)
an automated system that uses computer hardware and software to record, manipulate,
Information System store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that receives and processes input
and provides output)
software applications that handle patient accounts, budgets, and other financial
Financial applications
activities
WGU D033
large computers that are used by the government and other organizations that require
Mainframe computers
speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
1/6
, 9/7/24, 8:58 PM
Dumb Terminals all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing a system that operates on a computer that is owned and maintained by a vendor.
a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however, its servers are
Intranet located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot gain
access to information housed within the network
the exchange of health information electronically between providers and others with
Health Information Exchange
the same level of interoperability.
healthcare services based on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested
Evidence-based medicine
through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses
Clinical pathways
and treatments
provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make
clinical practice guidelines knowledge-based decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative
organization such as a medical society.
scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and
Health Informatics communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the
information science and technology to support these tasks
the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that
Data Analytics
information
process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for the
Data mining purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using
those relationships to predict behaviors.
reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to assist with strategic
dashboards
planning
set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as means, frequency
descriptive statistics distributions, and standard deviations; describes the characteristics of a specific group
or a population
set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make generalizations about a
inferential statistics
population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's characteristics,
process used to identify patterns that can be used to predict the odds of a particular
predictive modeling outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is
likely to happen in the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA) advanced certification covers data management, data analytics, and data reporting
collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical ancillary areas (such as radiology and
Clinical Information Systems
laboratory), and therapy department information related to patient care
document management system electronic method of capturing and managing documents.
pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and, ultimately, the computer
target sheets
the content of the pages that follow
large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has a large amount of
file server
memory and magnetic hard drive
abstracting and quality control workstation workstation is used for indexing and quality control
process of scanning past health records into the DMS so there is an existing database
backscanning
of patient information
symbiology format; for barcodes it is Code 39, also known as Code 3 of 9
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