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The widespread use of the smartphone has prompted healthcare organizations to:
- Ban their use in hospitals
- Develop policies for use
- Prevent employees from using them
- Create enforceable state - ANSWER- lawsDevelop policies for use

New technologies used in health care, such as smartphones or Google Glass, create
potential ethical issues associated with:
- Interoperability
- Privacy and confidentiality
- The human technology interface
- Cognitive - ANSWER- loadPrivacy and confidentiality

Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit a healthcare provider to share patient
information for treatment purpose by fax,email or phone?
- Yes
- ANSWER- - Noyes

Healthcare professionals need to be familiar with the:
- Goals and purposes of the HITECH Act of 2009
- Medicare and Medicaid HIT provisions of the law and the concepts of "meaningful
use" and "certified EHR technology"
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of
1996 - All of these are - ANSWER- correct.All of these are correct.

T/F: The acquisition of knowledge is assured by the ready
availability of - ANSWER- information
from the Internet.false
T/F: The Information Age is an age when data, information, and knowledge are
both accessible and can be manipulated by more people than ever before in -
history. ANSWER-true

T/F: The HITECH Act was enacted in 2009 to help stimulate both health
care and financial recovery in the - ANSWER- United States.true

In order to promote the exchange of information with others, computers
are connected to: - Flash drives
- Networks
- Blogs

,-


- ANSWER- - Emailsnetworks

Essentially, a computer is:
- An input-output system
- An electronic information processing machine that serves as a tool to manipulate
data and information
- A machine that accepts data inputted via a variety of devices, processes data
through logical and arithmetic rendering, stores the data in memory components,
and outputs data and information to the user - All of these are
correct.All of these are - ANSWER- correct.

What is the study of what it means to know?
- Epistemology
- Wisdom
- Connectionism
- ANSWER- - KnowledgeEpistemology

T/F: Computers support collaboration, networking, and information exchange. -
ANSWER-true

T/F: Artificial intelligence is the field that deals with the conception, development,
and implementation of informatics tools based on intelligent technologies. This
field attempts to capture the complex processes of human thought and -
intelligence. ANSWER-true

T/F: A common thread in all ethics approaches is that they all are goal-oriented
approaches to answering questions that have the potential for
multiple - ANSWER- acceptable
answers.true

The HIT infrastructure supports using and exchanging information in order to:
- Facilitate clinical research and reduce health disparities
- Fine entities that do not comply
- Both facilitate clinical research and reduce health disparities, and fine entities that
do not comply
- None of these are - ANSWER- correct.Facilitate clinical research and reduce
health
disparities

The term that refers to the OS incorporating hardware protection for virtual memory
and software protection mechanisms for OS resources is:
- Security
- Compatibility
- Extensibility




-

, -


- ANSWER- - PortabilitySecurity

T/F: Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary field that studies the
mind, intelligence, and behavior from an information - ANSWER- processing
perspective.true

For knowledge to be viable, it must be:
- Easily accessible
- Accurately and timely
- Obtained from a variety of sources
- All of these are - ANSWER- correctAll of these are correct

T/F: Knowledge may be described as a process that is - ANSWER-
continuoustrue

Information science forces - ANSWER- oneffectively linking people, information,
and technology

The term that refers to the operating system (OS) incorporating hardware protection
for virtual memory and software protection mechanisms for OS
resources - ANSWER- is
________Security

The term that refers to the ability of the OS to be moved from one
hardware architecture to another with few changes - ANSWER- is
_______Portability

_________ allows opportunities for exchange of ideas between healthcare workers -
ANSWER-virtual communication technology

T/F: Plug and play" refers to peripheral computer and-ons, such as an iPod or
game console, which can be plugged into a serial or other port and instantly - used?
ANSWER-true

T/F: The Foundation of Knowledge model concepts are knowledge
acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, and knowledge -
dissemination ANSWER-true

Ethics is best described as:
- A revolution in healthcare brought on by technologic change
- An approach to answering questions with multiple answers
- Ever-changing principles that guide decision making
- Paradigmatic changes central to the healthcare - ANSWER- systemAn
approach to answering questions with multiple answers




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