HISM (D033): Chapter 7 Exam Questions
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Administrative information systems - ✔✔A system that manages the
business of healthcare; is the first information systems to be used in
healthcare. The data collected in this system are mainly financial or
business-oriented in nature, rather than clinical
Algorithm - ✔✔relatively short computer programs of rules or procedures
containing conditional logic for solving a problem or accomplishing a task
Chargemaster - ✔✔A financial management form or software that contains
information about the healthcare facility's charges for the services it
provides to patients (also called a charge description master [CDM]); it
automates the coding process for routine procedures
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) - ✔✔The 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
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Decision support system (DSS) - ✔✔An information system that gathers
data from a variety of sources and assists in providing structure to the data
by using various analytical models and visual tools in order to facilitate and
improve the ultimate outcome in decision-making tasks associated with the
nonroutine and nonrepetitive problems
Enterprise master patient index (EMPI) - ✔✔A database that provides
access to multiple repositories of information from overlapping patient
populations that are maintained in separate information systems and
databases
Executive information system (EIS) - ✔✔A decision support system that is
designed to be used by healthcare administrators
Facilities management systems - ✔✔Used by a healthcare facility to
manage the physical plant; track routine maintenance such as elevator
inspections, fire extinguisher inspections, and equipment preventive
maintenance
Financial information system - ✔✔A critical system to the fiscal health of
the healthcare facility; receive accurate financial information in a timely
manner to monitor and manage the finances of the healthcare facility