Questions, Answers & Study Guide
1. What are the Staggers and Nelson life cycle steps?
Correct Answer:
1. Analysis/planning
2. Design/development
3. Implementation
4. Maintenance & support
5. What describes the maintenance phase of the system
development life cycle?
Correct Answer: The system is upgraded.
3. What is the planning phase?
Correct Answer: The phase of a system life cycle where the scope of
the proposed project is identified.
4. What is the next step of the life cycle after a new health
information system has been purchased?
Correct Answer: Test the system.
, 5. In which ways can the use of clinical decision support
systems affect health information technology and create a
culture of safety within healthcare?
Correct Answer:
• Improves the quality of care.
• Improves patient satisfaction.
6. In what manner do clinical decision support systems that use
ANSI and WEDI support a culture of safety?
Correct Answer: Standardizing healthcare information.
7. When a healthcare corporation is preparing to implement a
new patient portal after multiple searches have been done,
trade shows attended, and a final list of potential vendors has
been developed, what is the next step of the life cycle?
Correct Answer: When a letter is sent to potential vendors asking for
specific information about the product.
8. When healthcare facilities favor purchased information
systems over organization-developed information systems,
what occurs?
Correct Answer: System enhancements are provided.
9. Which system development life cycle uses the most predictive
approach?
Correct Answer: Waterfall model.