D220 Nursing Informatics WGU OA Test Guide Exam
with Questions and well Detailed Answers
1. Admission-Transfer-Discharge System (ADT): Classified under the hospitals'
administrative info system. It's one of the foundational systems that allows oper-
ational activities such as bed placement, transportation coordination, room readi-
ness, and the general coordination of services focused on the patient's phase of
movement. Tracks a patient's activities and location from admission to discharge
2. American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): Authorized INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting
and using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's. ARRA provides
economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHRs.
3. Analytical Science: Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer 2 basic
questions: What do I have? How much of it do I have? Environment, pharmacy, safety &
security, fraud detection, and healthcare diagnostics.
4. Asynchronous Applications: Patient-centered and allows consumers to partici-
pate in their own care by using designated health technology to share health metrics
and data with their healthcare provider via technology (remote patient-monitoring
- the use of devices to capture patient data at one location and then transmit it
electronically to healthcare professionals at a different location, allowing the review
of data for clinical decision-making, i.e. MobileHealth).
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, 5. Audit Trails: Software that is used for detecting security violations, performance
problems, and flaws. Records activity by users and system. Goal is to improve data
integrity. Audit trails are only one of the ways to ensure data integrity. An audit
trail must contain the name of the user, the application triggering the audit, the
workstation, the specific document, a description of the event being audited, and the
date and time to determine the integrity of data.
6. Benchmark: The continual process of measuring services and practices against
the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry. Comparing the performance of
an organization or clinician to others.
7. Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS): Supports healthcare practitioners in
making patient-care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical
knowledge. CDSS is technology that provides recommendations for care and must
be balanced with professional judgement, not used in place of it.
8. Clinical Information System: Software used to access client data, plan, imple-
ment, and evaluate care. May be specific to certain departments (lab, radiology,
pharmacy) or particular patient populations. Provides patient centric decision-mak-
ing functionality to help guide a nurse with decision-making while caring for a patient.
Acquires patient data so that healthcare professionals can review it and use the
information to deliver care.
9. Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA): Allows interoperability of
health information exchange between hospital systems
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with Questions and well Detailed Answers
1. Admission-Transfer-Discharge System (ADT): Classified under the hospitals'
administrative info system. It's one of the foundational systems that allows oper-
ational activities such as bed placement, transportation coordination, room readi-
ness, and the general coordination of services focused on the patient's phase of
movement. Tracks a patient's activities and location from admission to discharge
2. American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): Authorized INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting
and using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's. ARRA provides
economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHRs.
3. Analytical Science: Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer 2 basic
questions: What do I have? How much of it do I have? Environment, pharmacy, safety &
security, fraud detection, and healthcare diagnostics.
4. Asynchronous Applications: Patient-centered and allows consumers to partici-
pate in their own care by using designated health technology to share health metrics
and data with their healthcare provider via technology (remote patient-monitoring
- the use of devices to capture patient data at one location and then transmit it
electronically to healthcare professionals at a different location, allowing the review
of data for clinical decision-making, i.e. MobileHealth).
1/7
, 5. Audit Trails: Software that is used for detecting security violations, performance
problems, and flaws. Records activity by users and system. Goal is to improve data
integrity. Audit trails are only one of the ways to ensure data integrity. An audit
trail must contain the name of the user, the application triggering the audit, the
workstation, the specific document, a description of the event being audited, and the
date and time to determine the integrity of data.
6. Benchmark: The continual process of measuring services and practices against
the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry. Comparing the performance of
an organization or clinician to others.
7. Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS): Supports healthcare practitioners in
making patient-care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical
knowledge. CDSS is technology that provides recommendations for care and must
be balanced with professional judgement, not used in place of it.
8. Clinical Information System: Software used to access client data, plan, imple-
ment, and evaluate care. May be specific to certain departments (lab, radiology,
pharmacy) or particular patient populations. Provides patient centric decision-mak-
ing functionality to help guide a nurse with decision-making while caring for a patient.
Acquires patient data so that healthcare professionals can review it and use the
information to deliver care.
9. Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA): Allows interoperability of
health information exchange between hospital systems
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