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D220 Informatics Questions and Answers
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Ans: **Authorized
INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare
professionals for adopting & using interoperable Health Information
Technology and EHR's.
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The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs
and promote economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by
the recession. (3) To provide investments needed to increase economic
efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health. (4)
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To invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other
infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To
stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and
avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and
local tax increases.
AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Ans: Produced
evidence making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and
affordability
Asynchoronous Applications Ans: No contact with patient for data
collection. EX: Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to share
health metrics and data w/ providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex:
photos)
Administrative Information System Ans: can include registration and
scheduling; tracking through admission, transfer and discharge; patient
acuity and staff scheduling; financial or accounting systems; risk
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management; payroll and human resources; quality assurance; and
contract management functions.
Affordable Care Act Ans: law passed in 2010 to expand access to
insurance, address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality
of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the
number of insured persons.
Alarm Fatique Ans: Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and
missing or delaying their response to the alarm.
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ANA (American Nurses Association) Ans: Professional organization for all
RNs. Concerned with licensure, collective bargaining and education
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Analytics Ans: A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical
and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-
based management to drive decisions and actions.
Audit trail Ans: a report that traces who has accessed electronic
information, when information was accessed, and whether any
information was changed
Authentication Ans: A method for confirming users' identities
Authorization Ans: The process of giving someone permission to do or
have something
Barcode Scanning Technology Ans: Scans drug and patients wristband
to verify medication order, inventory control, + pt identification, correct
med admin
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Big Data Ans: a collection of large, complex data sets, including
structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without
the use of information technology
Bioinformatics Ans: application of mathematics and computer science
to store, retrieve, and analyze biological data
Biometrics Ans: the identification of a user based on a physical
characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
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Business Continuity Plan Ans: A plan for how an organization will recover
and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a
predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption
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Business Intelligence Ans: Information collected from multiple sources
such as suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that
analyzes patterns, trends, and relationships for strategic decision making
Change Control Board (CCB) Ans: A committee that evaluates the
worthiness of a proposed change and either approves or rejects the
proposed change.
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Ans: The senior manager (usually a
registered nurse with advanced education and extensive experience)
responsible for administering patient care services
Clinical Care Classification (CCC) Ans: "Two interrelated taxonomies, the
CCC of Nursing Diagnoses and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing
Interventions and Actions, that provide a standardized framework for
documenting patient care in hospitals, home health agencies,
ambulatory care clinics, and other healthcare settings"
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CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) Ans: An order entry and
decision support system that allows direct entry of orders and
immediately shared w/ others
Change Management Ans: The process, tools and techniques that help
people implement changes to achieve a desired outcome. (Supports
the adoption of a medication Administration System)
Change Control Ans: Helps to prioritize limited resources and ensures
system standards are upheld.
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Connected health Ans: a model of health care delivery using
technology to provide services including information and education.
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Technology assisted healthcare is delivered between at least 2 points
involving either asynchronous or synchronous exchange.
Consumer Health Informatics Ans: Use of electronic info &
communication to improve medical outcomes & healthcare decision
making from pt perspective.
Patient view and structures and process that enable consumer to
manage their own care.
Clinical Research Informatics Ans: Discovery and management of new
knowledge pertinent to health and disease from clinical trials via
secondary data use.
C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture) Ans: Allows
interoperability of health information exchange between to hospitals.