NR599 Final Exam Questions And Answers
WITH RATIONALES ALREADY Graded A 2024-
2025
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) - Generate patient specific interventions, assessments,
and recommendations. Existed prior the development of EHRs.
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) - goal is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to
help guide apporpriate decision making
Ways CDS improve healthcare - -reduce clinical variation and duplicative testing
-ensuring patient safety
-avoiding complications that may result in readmissions
-create alerts about drug-drug interactions
-drug allergy contraindications
Ways CDS is challenging healthcare - -alarm fatigue
-clinical burnout
-occur with poorly implemented CDS features
-financial burden
CDS - provides clinicians, staff, patients, or other individuals with knowledge and
person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times to
enhance healthcare
Qualitive evaluation strategies after implementing CDS program - focus groups,
surveys, questionaires, or ethnographic observational methods, staff interviews, and
workflow analysis
Quantitive evaluation strategy - flow charts
Telemedicine - use of a medical information exchange from one site to another via
electronic communications to improve patient's health status
Telehealth - use of technology to deliver healthcare, health information, or health
education at a distance
Adoption of EHR - refers to how well the staff and users actually use and embrace the
system as part of their routine daily activities. Stakeholders including leadership,
, clinicians, support staff, and patients, aligned with more mature stages in accordance
with the diffusion of an innovation theoretical framework
Electronic Health Record - is the systematized collection of patient and population
electronically stored health information in a digital format
Electronic Health Record - Health records that is stored electronically and can be
shared across different health care settings
Electronic Health Record - ______ are real time, patient-centered records that make
information available instantly and securely to authorized users.
Evaluation of EHR - how effective is the adoption of an EHR measured through
qualitative studies (surveys, questionaires, focus groups or thnographic observational
methods, staff interviews, and workflow analysis) before and after implementation of
EHR.
Privacy - An improtant issue related to personal information. Restricted access of
patient information or data
Confidentiallity - to ensure that all personal information is protected by ensuring that
limited access is only given to those who are authorized to view that information.
Protecting privacy of personal information or data
Cybersecurity - the stat of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of
electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this
Computer-aided translators - a form of language translation in which a human translator
uses computer hardware to support and facilitate the translation process
HIPAA - Healthcare institutions are required to meet all standards and comply with the
appropriate security measures in order to safeguard patient data.
Four parts to HIPAA's Administrative Simplification - - electronic transactions and code
sets standards requirements
- Privacy requirements
- Security requirements
- National identifier requirements
ICD-10 - an alphanumeric code used by doctors, health insurance companies, and
public health agencies across the world to represent diagnoses or medical conditions
WITH RATIONALES ALREADY Graded A 2024-
2025
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) - Generate patient specific interventions, assessments,
and recommendations. Existed prior the development of EHRs.
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) - goal is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to
help guide apporpriate decision making
Ways CDS improve healthcare - -reduce clinical variation and duplicative testing
-ensuring patient safety
-avoiding complications that may result in readmissions
-create alerts about drug-drug interactions
-drug allergy contraindications
Ways CDS is challenging healthcare - -alarm fatigue
-clinical burnout
-occur with poorly implemented CDS features
-financial burden
CDS - provides clinicians, staff, patients, or other individuals with knowledge and
person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times to
enhance healthcare
Qualitive evaluation strategies after implementing CDS program - focus groups,
surveys, questionaires, or ethnographic observational methods, staff interviews, and
workflow analysis
Quantitive evaluation strategy - flow charts
Telemedicine - use of a medical information exchange from one site to another via
electronic communications to improve patient's health status
Telehealth - use of technology to deliver healthcare, health information, or health
education at a distance
Adoption of EHR - refers to how well the staff and users actually use and embrace the
system as part of their routine daily activities. Stakeholders including leadership,
, clinicians, support staff, and patients, aligned with more mature stages in accordance
with the diffusion of an innovation theoretical framework
Electronic Health Record - is the systematized collection of patient and population
electronically stored health information in a digital format
Electronic Health Record - Health records that is stored electronically and can be
shared across different health care settings
Electronic Health Record - ______ are real time, patient-centered records that make
information available instantly and securely to authorized users.
Evaluation of EHR - how effective is the adoption of an EHR measured through
qualitative studies (surveys, questionaires, focus groups or thnographic observational
methods, staff interviews, and workflow analysis) before and after implementation of
EHR.
Privacy - An improtant issue related to personal information. Restricted access of
patient information or data
Confidentiallity - to ensure that all personal information is protected by ensuring that
limited access is only given to those who are authorized to view that information.
Protecting privacy of personal information or data
Cybersecurity - the stat of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of
electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this
Computer-aided translators - a form of language translation in which a human translator
uses computer hardware to support and facilitate the translation process
HIPAA - Healthcare institutions are required to meet all standards and comply with the
appropriate security measures in order to safeguard patient data.
Four parts to HIPAA's Administrative Simplification - - electronic transactions and code
sets standards requirements
- Privacy requirements
- Security requirements
- National identifier requirements
ICD-10 - an alphanumeric code used by doctors, health insurance companies, and
public health agencies across the world to represent diagnoses or medical conditions
