WGU D033 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS EXAMPREP STUDY GUIDE
◉ Financial applications
Answer: software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
◉ Mainframe computers
Answer: large computers that are used by the government and
other organizations that require speed and the ability to process
large amounts of data.
◉ Dumb Terminals
Answer: all of the processing is performed at the server or
mainframe
◉ Cloud Computing
Answer: a system that operates on a computer that is owned and
maintained by a vendor.
◉ Intranet
Answer: a private information network that uses Internet
technologies; however, its servers are located inside a firewall or
security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to
information housed within the network
,◉ Health Information Exchange
Answer: the exchange of health information electronically
between providers and others with the same level of
interoperability.
◉ Evidence-based medicine
Answer: healthcare services based on clinical methods that have
been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed
biomedical studies
◉ Clinical pathways
Answer: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care
planning for specific diagnoses and treatments
◉ clinical practice guidelines
Answer: provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare
practitioners to make knowledge-based decisions related to
patient care and issued by an authoritative organization such as a
medical society.
◉ Health Informatics
Answer: scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive,
information-processing, and communication tasks of healthcare
practice, education, and research, including the information
science and technology to support these tasks
,◉ Data Analytics
Answer: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of
drawing conclusions about that information
◉ Data mining
Answer: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data
from a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and
sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those
relationships to predict behaviors.
◉ dashboards
Answer: reports of process measures to help leaders follow
progress to assist with strategic planning
◉ descriptive statistics
Answer: set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as
means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations;
describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
◉ inferential statistics
Answer: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics on the
basis of a sample's characteristics,
◉ predictive modeling
, Answer: process used to identify patterns that can be used to
predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the observed
data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is likely to
happen in the future.
◉ certified health data analyst (CHDA)
Answer: advanced certification covers data management, data
analytics, and data reporting
◉ Clinical Information Systems
Answer: collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical ancillary
areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department
information related to patient care
◉ document management system
Answer: electronic method of capturing and managing
documents.
◉ target sheets
Answer: pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner
and, ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
◉ file server
Answer: large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful
and has a large amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
ANSWERS EXAMPREP STUDY GUIDE
◉ Financial applications
Answer: software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
◉ Mainframe computers
Answer: large computers that are used by the government and
other organizations that require speed and the ability to process
large amounts of data.
◉ Dumb Terminals
Answer: all of the processing is performed at the server or
mainframe
◉ Cloud Computing
Answer: a system that operates on a computer that is owned and
maintained by a vendor.
◉ Intranet
Answer: a private information network that uses Internet
technologies; however, its servers are located inside a firewall or
security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to
information housed within the network
,◉ Health Information Exchange
Answer: the exchange of health information electronically
between providers and others with the same level of
interoperability.
◉ Evidence-based medicine
Answer: healthcare services based on clinical methods that have
been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed
biomedical studies
◉ Clinical pathways
Answer: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care
planning for specific diagnoses and treatments
◉ clinical practice guidelines
Answer: provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare
practitioners to make knowledge-based decisions related to
patient care and issued by an authoritative organization such as a
medical society.
◉ Health Informatics
Answer: scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive,
information-processing, and communication tasks of healthcare
practice, education, and research, including the information
science and technology to support these tasks
,◉ Data Analytics
Answer: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of
drawing conclusions about that information
◉ Data mining
Answer: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data
from a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and
sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those
relationships to predict behaviors.
◉ dashboards
Answer: reports of process measures to help leaders follow
progress to assist with strategic planning
◉ descriptive statistics
Answer: set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as
means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations;
describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
◉ inferential statistics
Answer: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics on the
basis of a sample's characteristics,
◉ predictive modeling
, Answer: process used to identify patterns that can be used to
predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the observed
data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is likely to
happen in the future.
◉ certified health data analyst (CHDA)
Answer: advanced certification covers data management, data
analytics, and data reporting
◉ Clinical Information Systems
Answer: collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical ancillary
areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department
information related to patient care
◉ document management system
Answer: electronic method of capturing and managing
documents.
◉ target sheets
Answer: pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner
and, ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
◉ file server
Answer: large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful
and has a large amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
