WGU D490 MSCIA EXAM PREPARATION
TEST BANK WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
●● 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
TEST BANK WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
●● 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
