D220 Nursing Informatics WGU Study Guide 2026–2027
Complete OA Exam Prep, Practice Questions &
Comprehensive Review
ARRA - correct answers -American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Authorized incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR
Provides eco stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs
ADT - correct answers -admission, discharge, transfer
Tracks patients activities and location
Analytic science - correct answers -Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer to basic
questions: what do I have? How much a bit do I have? Environment, Pharmacy, safety, and security,
fraud, detection, and healthcare diagnostics.
Asynchronous applications - correct answers -RPM (remote patient monitoring)
Devices capture or data and send to different location
Review for clinical decision making
Audit trails - correct answers -(Audit name not required....??)
Goal is to improve data integrity
One of many ways to ensure data integrity
-contain name of user (??), app triggering audit, workstation, specific docu, description of event,
date/time
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, Benchmark - correct answers -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.
Big data - correct answers -Need tech to decipher
Help identify patterns/trends
CDSS - correct answers -clinical decision support system
Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge
CIS - correct answers -Clinical information system
Software are used to access client, data, plan, implement, and evaluate care. Provides patient centric
decision, making functionality to help guide decision-making while caring for patients.
CPOE - correct answers -Computerized Provider Order Entry
Configurability - correct answers -Refers to the extent that are given software product can be adopted
or changed to me a users preference?
Connected health - correct answers -Model or platform by which technology assisted healthcare, is
delivered between at least two points involving either synchronous or asynchronous exchange
C-CDA - correct answers -Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
Allows interop of health information exchange between hospitals
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Complete OA Exam Prep, Practice Questions &
Comprehensive Review
ARRA - correct answers -American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Authorized incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR
Provides eco stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs
ADT - correct answers -admission, discharge, transfer
Tracks patients activities and location
Analytic science - correct answers -Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer to basic
questions: what do I have? How much a bit do I have? Environment, Pharmacy, safety, and security,
fraud, detection, and healthcare diagnostics.
Asynchronous applications - correct answers -RPM (remote patient monitoring)
Devices capture or data and send to different location
Review for clinical decision making
Audit trails - correct answers -(Audit name not required....??)
Goal is to improve data integrity
One of many ways to ensure data integrity
-contain name of user (??), app triggering audit, workstation, specific docu, description of event,
date/time
1
, Benchmark - correct answers -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.
Big data - correct answers -Need tech to decipher
Help identify patterns/trends
CDSS - correct answers -clinical decision support system
Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge
CIS - correct answers -Clinical information system
Software are used to access client, data, plan, implement, and evaluate care. Provides patient centric
decision, making functionality to help guide decision-making while caring for patients.
CPOE - correct answers -Computerized Provider Order Entry
Configurability - correct answers -Refers to the extent that are given software product can be adopted
or changed to me a users preference?
Connected health - correct answers -Model or platform by which technology assisted healthcare, is
delivered between at least two points involving either synchronous or asynchronous exchange
C-CDA - correct answers -Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
Allows interop of health information exchange between hospitals
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