WGU D220 INFORMATICS
COMPREHENSIVE CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
FULL SOLUTIONS
●● Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Answer: Supports research designed to improve outcomes and quality of
healthcare.
●● Asynchronous Applications
Answer: No contact with the patient for data collection.
●● Asynchronous communication examples
Answer: Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to share
health metrics and data w/ providers, store & forward apps (ex: photos)
●● Administrative Information System
Answer: includes registration and scheduling, tracking through
admission, transfer and discharge, patient acuity and staff scheduling,
financial or accounting systems, risk management, payroll, and hr,
quality assurance and contract management functions
●● Affordable Care Act
, Answer: 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
●● Alarm fatigue
Answer: The phenomenon of nurses becoming desensitized to patient
care alarms and missing or delaying their response to the alarm
●● artificial intelligence
Answer: Use of algorithms and other technologies to mimic human
cognition and predict outcomes
●● Audit trail
Answer: a report that traces who has accessed electronic information,
when information was accessed, and whether any information was
changed
●● Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA)
Answer: **Mandated by the FDA** Real-time, automated
documentation of patient's medication. Needs CPOE, A pharmacy
system, & an EMAR system to function.
●● Benchmarking
COMPREHENSIVE CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
FULL SOLUTIONS
●● Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Answer: Supports research designed to improve outcomes and quality of
healthcare.
●● Asynchronous Applications
Answer: No contact with the patient for data collection.
●● Asynchronous communication examples
Answer: Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to share
health metrics and data w/ providers, store & forward apps (ex: photos)
●● Administrative Information System
Answer: includes registration and scheduling, tracking through
admission, transfer and discharge, patient acuity and staff scheduling,
financial or accounting systems, risk management, payroll, and hr,
quality assurance and contract management functions
●● Affordable Care Act
, Answer: 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
●● Alarm fatigue
Answer: The phenomenon of nurses becoming desensitized to patient
care alarms and missing or delaying their response to the alarm
●● artificial intelligence
Answer: Use of algorithms and other technologies to mimic human
cognition and predict outcomes
●● Audit trail
Answer: a report that traces who has accessed electronic information,
when information was accessed, and whether any information was
changed
●● Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA)
Answer: **Mandated by the FDA** Real-time, automated
documentation of patient's medication. Needs CPOE, A pharmacy
system, & an EMAR system to function.
●● Benchmarking
