WGU C427 Technology Applications in Healthcare – Already Passed

HMIS Health Management Information Systems ePHI Electronic Personal Health Information HMIS Moving toward creating electronic health records (EHR) has put pressure on organizations to expedite methods to share the information across ___. language interface vendors Health Management Information Systems experience information exchange challenges from: 1. Lack of common technical ___________ 2. Lack of common _______ among various healthcare information systems 3. An inability to share data among disparate _____ Efficiencies Interoperability HMIS's are necessary because they : Lead to higher quality of healthcare Improve healthcare service _______ Reduce Costs Facilitate _____________ EHR CDSS CPOE RISLIS PIS Information Systems deployed in hospitals include: Electronic Health Records (____) Clinical Decision Support Systems (____) Computerized Physician Order Entry (____) Radiological Information Systems (____) Laboratory Information Systems (____) Pharmacy Information Systems (_____) HMIS Political Income Reasons for the continual standstill in terms of rapid IT adoption and diffusion: Lack of _____ standards Lack of ______ spirit Fragmented markets with scarce _______ streams. LOINC SNOMED MIB ASTM Emerging Health Standards in HealthIT: Logical Observations, Identifiers, Names and Codes (____) Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (______) Medical Information Bus (___) American Society for Testing Materials (_____) HL7 Provides a framework (and related standards) for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information. ANSI Seeks to ensure the safety and health of consumers by facilitating consensus standards and conformity-assessment systemsW3C Guidelines Offer a framework for data exchange on the Internet and intranets