NR512 WEEK 2 INFORMATICS KEY TERMS QUIZ
FINAL PREPARATION MANUAL 2026
◉ Admission, discharge, and transfer system. Answer: System that
provides the backbone structure for the other types of clinical and
business systems (Hassett & Thede, 2003); it contains the
groundwork for the other types of healthcare information systems
since it includes the patient's name, medical record number, visit or
account number and demographic information such as age, sex,
home address, and contact information. They are the central source
for collecting this type of patient information and communicating it
to the other types of healthcare information systems including
clinical and business systems.
◉ American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Answer: An
organization dedicated to promoting consensus on norms and
guidelines related to the assessment of health agencies.
◉ Attribute. Answer: Quality or characteristic; field or element of an
entity in a database.
◉ Care Plan. Answer: A set of guidelines that outline the course of
treatment and the recommended interventions that will achieve
optimal results.
,◉ Case Management Information System. Answer: Computer
programs and information management tools that interact to
support and facilitate the practice of case managers.
◉ Clinical Documentation System. Answer: Array or collection of
applications and functionality; amalgamation of systems, medical
equipment, and technologies working together that are committed
or dedicated to collecting, storing, and manipulating healthcare data
and information and providing secure access to interdisciplinary
clinicians navigating the continuum of client care. Designed to
collect patient data in real time to enhance care by providing data at
the clinician's fingertips and enabling decision making where it
needs to occur— at the bedside. Also known as clinical information
system (CIS).
◉ Clinical Information System. Answer: Array or collection of
applications and functionality; amalgamation of systems, medical
equipment, and technologies working together that are committed
or dedicated to collecting, storing, and manipulating healthcare data
and information and providing secure access to interdisciplinary
clinicians navigating the continuum of client care. Designed to
collect patient data in real time to enhance care by providing data at
the clinician's fingertips and enabling decision making where it
needs to occur— at the bedside. Also known as clinical
documentation system.
, ◉ Collaboration. Answer: The sharing of ideas and experiences for
the purposes of mutual understanding and learning.
◉ Column. Answer: Field or attribute of an entity in a database.
◉ Communication System. Answer: Collection of individual
communications networks and transmission systems. In health care,
it includes call light systems, wireless phones, pagers, e-mail, instant
messaging and any other devices or networks that clinicians use to
communicate with patients, families, other professionals, and
internal and external resources.
◉ Computerized Physician Order entry system. Answer: A system
that automates the way that orders have traditionally been initiated
for patients. Clinicians place orders within these systems instead of
using traditional handwritten transcription onto paper. These
systems provide major safeguards by ensuring that physician orders
are legible and complete, thereby providing a level of patient safety
that was historically missing with paper-based orders. These
systems provide decision support and automated alert functionality
that was previously unavailable with paper-based orders.
◉ Core business system. Answer: System that enhances
administrative tasks within healthcare organizations. Unlike clinical
information systems whose aim is to provide direct patient care,
these systems support the management of health care within an
organization. These systems provide the framework for
FINAL PREPARATION MANUAL 2026
◉ Admission, discharge, and transfer system. Answer: System that
provides the backbone structure for the other types of clinical and
business systems (Hassett & Thede, 2003); it contains the
groundwork for the other types of healthcare information systems
since it includes the patient's name, medical record number, visit or
account number and demographic information such as age, sex,
home address, and contact information. They are the central source
for collecting this type of patient information and communicating it
to the other types of healthcare information systems including
clinical and business systems.
◉ American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Answer: An
organization dedicated to promoting consensus on norms and
guidelines related to the assessment of health agencies.
◉ Attribute. Answer: Quality or characteristic; field or element of an
entity in a database.
◉ Care Plan. Answer: A set of guidelines that outline the course of
treatment and the recommended interventions that will achieve
optimal results.
,◉ Case Management Information System. Answer: Computer
programs and information management tools that interact to
support and facilitate the practice of case managers.
◉ Clinical Documentation System. Answer: Array or collection of
applications and functionality; amalgamation of systems, medical
equipment, and technologies working together that are committed
or dedicated to collecting, storing, and manipulating healthcare data
and information and providing secure access to interdisciplinary
clinicians navigating the continuum of client care. Designed to
collect patient data in real time to enhance care by providing data at
the clinician's fingertips and enabling decision making where it
needs to occur— at the bedside. Also known as clinical information
system (CIS).
◉ Clinical Information System. Answer: Array or collection of
applications and functionality; amalgamation of systems, medical
equipment, and technologies working together that are committed
or dedicated to collecting, storing, and manipulating healthcare data
and information and providing secure access to interdisciplinary
clinicians navigating the continuum of client care. Designed to
collect patient data in real time to enhance care by providing data at
the clinician's fingertips and enabling decision making where it
needs to occur— at the bedside. Also known as clinical
documentation system.
, ◉ Collaboration. Answer: The sharing of ideas and experiences for
the purposes of mutual understanding and learning.
◉ Column. Answer: Field or attribute of an entity in a database.
◉ Communication System. Answer: Collection of individual
communications networks and transmission systems. In health care,
it includes call light systems, wireless phones, pagers, e-mail, instant
messaging and any other devices or networks that clinicians use to
communicate with patients, families, other professionals, and
internal and external resources.
◉ Computerized Physician Order entry system. Answer: A system
that automates the way that orders have traditionally been initiated
for patients. Clinicians place orders within these systems instead of
using traditional handwritten transcription onto paper. These
systems provide major safeguards by ensuring that physician orders
are legible and complete, thereby providing a level of patient safety
that was historically missing with paper-based orders. These
systems provide decision support and automated alert functionality
that was previously unavailable with paper-based orders.
◉ Core business system. Answer: System that enhances
administrative tasks within healthcare organizations. Unlike clinical
information systems whose aim is to provide direct patient care,
these systems support the management of health care within an
organization. These systems provide the framework for
