WGU C427 EVALUATION EXAMS UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔health management information systems (HMIS)
implementation requires - ✔✔collecting accurate, reliable, and timely data.
✔✔The components of data stewardship - ✔✔quality, management, security, and
business intelligence (BI)—are domains essential in HMIS design.
✔✔Data stewardship - ✔✔Having high-quality data is not just about the accuracy of
each patient record. It also involves controlling access to the data, managing data
updates, and validating the data.
Obtaining accurate data is not enough; proper data stewardship is
essential to ensuring that the right information is delivered to the right person at the
right time.
✔✔Steps HMIS implementation - ✔✔(1) assessing the available resources, (2)
assessing data and data inventory, (3) profiling data and determining the valid values
for each attribute, (4) reviewing processes, and (5) reviewing personnel responsibilities.
, ✔✔Data stewardship has four major components, - ✔✔Quality. This component is
concerned with providing current, accurate, and consistent information whenever and
wherever the data are accessed
Management. This is the physical aspect of handling or managing data from the point
the data are collected to the point the data are used and archived. This component not
only includes the hardware and software technology, but also the processes, as well as
both the people and the machine involved in managing the data.
Security. This component has to do with controlling access to the data to ensure that
not only are data available and retrievable to those who are supposed to access the
data but the release of data is also securely guarded from those who are not supposed
to have access to the data.
Business Intelligence. This component has to do with utilizing the data to yield better,
more complete, and more usable information. This is what some have called "putting
the information back into information technology."
✔✔Computer-based Decision Support Systems (CDSS) - ✔✔Medical information
processing systems that are designed to aid clinicians in making complex and/or less-
than-complex clinical-based decisions
Use CDSS to query general and specific questions about the conditions of their
patients, infer and/or forecast resulting outcomes, & arrive at the computed alternatives
and/or choice outcomes for the decision makers
✔✔Patient-Centric Management Systems Challenges - ✔✔Confusion due to complexity
Cost of implementation
Lack of standardization
Reliability, privacy, confidentiality, and security of housed patient data
Lack of motivation in creating interoperability
Uncertainties about the direct benefits
✔✔Patient-Centric Management Systems Benefits - ✔✔Allow direct sourcing and
capturing of patient data -
Direct patient care
Continuing patient care
Follow-up treatment protocols
Medical education (for nurses and resident physicians)
Research
Improve legal compliance
Cut costs
Improve patient safety
Decision support capabilities
✔✔Enterprise software systems offer a number of benefits to a healthcare organization,
including - ✔✔Flexibility: Enterprise software systems can expand an individual HMIS
as other organizations participate in data-sharing.
Networking: By allowing enterprise-wide views of an organization, enterprise software
systems enable interorganizational collaborations.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔health management information systems (HMIS)
implementation requires - ✔✔collecting accurate, reliable, and timely data.
✔✔The components of data stewardship - ✔✔quality, management, security, and
business intelligence (BI)—are domains essential in HMIS design.
✔✔Data stewardship - ✔✔Having high-quality data is not just about the accuracy of
each patient record. It also involves controlling access to the data, managing data
updates, and validating the data.
Obtaining accurate data is not enough; proper data stewardship is
essential to ensuring that the right information is delivered to the right person at the
right time.
✔✔Steps HMIS implementation - ✔✔(1) assessing the available resources, (2)
assessing data and data inventory, (3) profiling data and determining the valid values
for each attribute, (4) reviewing processes, and (5) reviewing personnel responsibilities.
, ✔✔Data stewardship has four major components, - ✔✔Quality. This component is
concerned with providing current, accurate, and consistent information whenever and
wherever the data are accessed
Management. This is the physical aspect of handling or managing data from the point
the data are collected to the point the data are used and archived. This component not
only includes the hardware and software technology, but also the processes, as well as
both the people and the machine involved in managing the data.
Security. This component has to do with controlling access to the data to ensure that
not only are data available and retrievable to those who are supposed to access the
data but the release of data is also securely guarded from those who are not supposed
to have access to the data.
Business Intelligence. This component has to do with utilizing the data to yield better,
more complete, and more usable information. This is what some have called "putting
the information back into information technology."
✔✔Computer-based Decision Support Systems (CDSS) - ✔✔Medical information
processing systems that are designed to aid clinicians in making complex and/or less-
than-complex clinical-based decisions
Use CDSS to query general and specific questions about the conditions of their
patients, infer and/or forecast resulting outcomes, & arrive at the computed alternatives
and/or choice outcomes for the decision makers
✔✔Patient-Centric Management Systems Challenges - ✔✔Confusion due to complexity
Cost of implementation
Lack of standardization
Reliability, privacy, confidentiality, and security of housed patient data
Lack of motivation in creating interoperability
Uncertainties about the direct benefits
✔✔Patient-Centric Management Systems Benefits - ✔✔Allow direct sourcing and
capturing of patient data -
Direct patient care
Continuing patient care
Follow-up treatment protocols
Medical education (for nurses and resident physicians)
Research
Improve legal compliance
Cut costs
Improve patient safety
Decision support capabilities
✔✔Enterprise software systems offer a number of benefits to a healthcare organization,
including - ✔✔Flexibility: Enterprise software systems can expand an individual HMIS
as other organizations participate in data-sharing.
Networking: By allowing enterprise-wide views of an organization, enterprise software
systems enable interorganizational collaborations.
