WGU Informatics D220 85 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Employee falls & gets hurt at work can you share? - ANSWER: Do not provide the
info because HIPAA
Health literacy universal precaution-AHRQ? - ANSWER: 5th grade reading level is the
best
"Computer science, decision science, information science, management science,
cognitive science, & organizational theory. - ANSWER: Statement that best describes
NI (nursing informatics)
From the TIGER initiative to identify and validate a comprehensive list of
competencies in the domains of: Basic Computer Skills, Clinical Information
Management and Information Literacy. - ANSWER: TANIC - TIGER-based Assessment
of Nursing Informatics Competencies
Mostly presented as discrete observations with little interpretation. These are the
smallest factors describing the patient, disease state, health environment, and so
forth. Examples include a patient's principal medical diagnosis - ANSWER: Data -
within DIKW
A process by which data from different sources are integrated to improve the
optimization of understanding. - ANSWER: BI - Business Intelligence
Provides economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHR's - ANSWER: ARRA
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Assists healthcare providers to better manage patient care through secure use and
sharing of health information - ANSWER: healthcareIT.gov
Knowledge and ability to locate, organize, use, communicate and interpret findings -
ANSWER: Information Literacy
Protects the health & well-being of Americans through social services, medicine, and
public health. - ANSWER: DHSS - Department of Health and Humans Services
Data found in paper documents, emails and multi-media. Cannot be analyzed quickly
and sometimes referred to as 'Big-Data.' - ANSWER: Unstructured Data
Provides tools to enable delivery of safe, quality care in an efficient manner while
improving communication and lowering costs. - ANSWER: HIT - Health Information
Technology
Surveys about health and medication practices that can be skewed due to certain
groups of people not being participants. - ANSWER: Population Survey
,Manages the world's largest biomedical and health library and offers courses on how
to validate information on the intranet. - ANSWER: NLM - National Library of
Medicine
NLM (National Library of Medicine) uses these heading by vocabulary thesauruses to
index articles in Pubmed. - ANSWER: MeSH - Medical Subject Headings
NLM (National Library of Medicine) developed this unique language system. -
ANSWER: UMLS - Unified Medical language System
A nomenclature developed by NLM (National Library of Medicine) for clinical drugs
and delivery devices. - ANSWER: SNOMED-CT - Standardized Nomenclature of
Medicine Clinical Terms
What is the difference between SNOMed and ICD-10's - ANSWER: SNOMed is used
during the active patient workup process, ICD-10's used when the workup has been
completed.
This organization conducted a nursing-informatics workforce survey in 2014. The
survey found the nurse informaticist "continues to play a crucial role in the
development, implementation, and optimization of clinical applications" - ANSWER:
HIMSS - Health-care Information and Management Systems Society
Named as one of the nine levers stakeholders could use to align with the national
quality strategy mandate within the ACA (affordable care act) - ANSWER: HIT (Health
Information Technology)
Gives input of options and suggestions to providers but not instructions of what to
do. - ANSWER: CDSS - Clinical Decision Support Systems
a mechanism provided by the computer system to assist users by prompting them to
complete a task, verify information or prevent the entry of inappropriate
information - ANSWER: System Check
After data has been collected, its quality may be improved via the process by this
means, so that it will be accurate enough to support analysis. T - ANSWER: Data
Cleansing / Data Scrubbing
Even before the widespread adoption of EHRs, there was a growing recognition that
improved communication among professionals required the adoption of this to
ensure that a concept had the same meaning in all setting. One example is NANDA,
which was created by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association - ANSWER:
Standardized Language
This along with ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) also bring together an
interdisciplinary team that networks with other practices and networks to deliver or
,improve access to services (Hefford, 2017). - ANSWER: PMHs - Patient Medical
Homes
This is what the clinicians see on the screen, and it consists of terms with which
clinicians are familiar. - ANSWER: Interface Terminology
data that fits into predetermined classifications such as that seen with a list of
selectable options that can easily be quantified and can be easily used to formulate
reports - ANSWER: Structured Data
Can be analyzed to discover trends and, subsequently, to inform and educate.
HITECH also ensured the collection of this that could be used to improve policy
decisions relative to the allocation of services and population health. - ANSWER:
Aggregate Data
This office was funded with money granted by the Public Health Service Act (PHSA)
as defined by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Act (HITECH). - ANSWER: ONCHIT - Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology
Entails using the current best evidence for patient-care decisions in order to improve
the consistency and quality of patient outcomes (Mackey & Bassendowski, 2017). -
ANSWER: EBP - Evidence-Based Practice
Discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns from data to
offer solutions and drive decisions. - ANSWER: Analytics
Enacted in 2009 as an attempt to revive the nation's economy, create jobs, and
address widely neglected challenges that impact the future. Many of it's provisions
were directed toward improving healthcare such as reduced COBRA health-
insurance premiums, a tax credit for health coverage to encourage greater
compliance, and federal funding or incentives for healthcare organizations to
upgrade HIT systems - ANSWER: ARRA - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
A component of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) This Act, provided
economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHRs, in alignment with the goal
that each person in the United States would have a certified digital health record by
2014. - ANSWER: HITECH - Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical
Health
Formed in an effort to improve the coordination of care along with patient medical
homes (PMHs). This brings together primary care providers, specialists, and hospitals
to share information and coordinate care and payment plans with the aims of
greater efficiency and quality at a lower cost and, ideally, with less aggravation for
the patient (Dewey, 2016). - ANSWER: ACOs - Accountable Care Organizations
, Standardization of clinical terms used in patient records facilitates interoperability as
it ensures a common understanding of terms. - ANSWER: Vocabulary Standards
The ability to read, write, and comprehend—are prerequisites to higher forms of
literacy. - ANSWER: Basic Literacy
A term used to refer to the basic understanding and use of computers, software
tools, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, social media, and
communication via email. - ANSWER: Computer Literacy
Involves both the ability to locate information and to interpret information in a
manner that is relevant to the user. - ANSWER: Information Literacy
Set two goals relative to HIT for their 2016-2018 public policy agenda that included
representing the role of the clinical nurse specialist in relevant legislative, policy, and
advocacy efforts for increased access to healthcare via the use of technology. -
ANSWER: NACNS - National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
The federal entity charged with coordinating national efforts to implement and use
HIT and electronic exchange of health information, invites input from healthcare
professionals and consumers - ANSWER: ONCHIT - Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology
Was formed to advance nurses' competencies related to informatics. Its primary
objective was to develop a US nursing workforce capable of using electronic health
records to improve the delivery of health care. - ANSWER: TIGER - Technology
Informatics Guiding Education Reform
In recent years, TIGER's work was adopted and now is managed by this organization,
a professional association of health-information-technology stakeholders and
venders - ANSWER: HIMSS - Health-care Information and Management Systems
Society
ANI - ANSWER: Alliance for Nursing Informatics
Is the individual's freedom to control interferences by others, retaining a personal
capacity for intentional action - ANSWER: Autonomy
This establish the structure and organization of the content that it transported
within electronic health information documents. - ANSWER: Content standards
The obligation for doing no intentional harm, - ANSWER: Nonmaleficence
Refers to actions that result in positive outcomes in which benefits and utility are
balanced. - ANSWER: Beneficence
Employee falls & gets hurt at work can you share? - ANSWER: Do not provide the
info because HIPAA
Health literacy universal precaution-AHRQ? - ANSWER: 5th grade reading level is the
best
"Computer science, decision science, information science, management science,
cognitive science, & organizational theory. - ANSWER: Statement that best describes
NI (nursing informatics)
From the TIGER initiative to identify and validate a comprehensive list of
competencies in the domains of: Basic Computer Skills, Clinical Information
Management and Information Literacy. - ANSWER: TANIC - TIGER-based Assessment
of Nursing Informatics Competencies
Mostly presented as discrete observations with little interpretation. These are the
smallest factors describing the patient, disease state, health environment, and so
forth. Examples include a patient's principal medical diagnosis - ANSWER: Data -
within DIKW
A process by which data from different sources are integrated to improve the
optimization of understanding. - ANSWER: BI - Business Intelligence
Provides economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHR's - ANSWER: ARRA
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Assists healthcare providers to better manage patient care through secure use and
sharing of health information - ANSWER: healthcareIT.gov
Knowledge and ability to locate, organize, use, communicate and interpret findings -
ANSWER: Information Literacy
Protects the health & well-being of Americans through social services, medicine, and
public health. - ANSWER: DHSS - Department of Health and Humans Services
Data found in paper documents, emails and multi-media. Cannot be analyzed quickly
and sometimes referred to as 'Big-Data.' - ANSWER: Unstructured Data
Provides tools to enable delivery of safe, quality care in an efficient manner while
improving communication and lowering costs. - ANSWER: HIT - Health Information
Technology
Surveys about health and medication practices that can be skewed due to certain
groups of people not being participants. - ANSWER: Population Survey
,Manages the world's largest biomedical and health library and offers courses on how
to validate information on the intranet. - ANSWER: NLM - National Library of
Medicine
NLM (National Library of Medicine) uses these heading by vocabulary thesauruses to
index articles in Pubmed. - ANSWER: MeSH - Medical Subject Headings
NLM (National Library of Medicine) developed this unique language system. -
ANSWER: UMLS - Unified Medical language System
A nomenclature developed by NLM (National Library of Medicine) for clinical drugs
and delivery devices. - ANSWER: SNOMED-CT - Standardized Nomenclature of
Medicine Clinical Terms
What is the difference between SNOMed and ICD-10's - ANSWER: SNOMed is used
during the active patient workup process, ICD-10's used when the workup has been
completed.
This organization conducted a nursing-informatics workforce survey in 2014. The
survey found the nurse informaticist "continues to play a crucial role in the
development, implementation, and optimization of clinical applications" - ANSWER:
HIMSS - Health-care Information and Management Systems Society
Named as one of the nine levers stakeholders could use to align with the national
quality strategy mandate within the ACA (affordable care act) - ANSWER: HIT (Health
Information Technology)
Gives input of options and suggestions to providers but not instructions of what to
do. - ANSWER: CDSS - Clinical Decision Support Systems
a mechanism provided by the computer system to assist users by prompting them to
complete a task, verify information or prevent the entry of inappropriate
information - ANSWER: System Check
After data has been collected, its quality may be improved via the process by this
means, so that it will be accurate enough to support analysis. T - ANSWER: Data
Cleansing / Data Scrubbing
Even before the widespread adoption of EHRs, there was a growing recognition that
improved communication among professionals required the adoption of this to
ensure that a concept had the same meaning in all setting. One example is NANDA,
which was created by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association - ANSWER:
Standardized Language
This along with ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) also bring together an
interdisciplinary team that networks with other practices and networks to deliver or
,improve access to services (Hefford, 2017). - ANSWER: PMHs - Patient Medical
Homes
This is what the clinicians see on the screen, and it consists of terms with which
clinicians are familiar. - ANSWER: Interface Terminology
data that fits into predetermined classifications such as that seen with a list of
selectable options that can easily be quantified and can be easily used to formulate
reports - ANSWER: Structured Data
Can be analyzed to discover trends and, subsequently, to inform and educate.
HITECH also ensured the collection of this that could be used to improve policy
decisions relative to the allocation of services and population health. - ANSWER:
Aggregate Data
This office was funded with money granted by the Public Health Service Act (PHSA)
as defined by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Act (HITECH). - ANSWER: ONCHIT - Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology
Entails using the current best evidence for patient-care decisions in order to improve
the consistency and quality of patient outcomes (Mackey & Bassendowski, 2017). -
ANSWER: EBP - Evidence-Based Practice
Discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns from data to
offer solutions and drive decisions. - ANSWER: Analytics
Enacted in 2009 as an attempt to revive the nation's economy, create jobs, and
address widely neglected challenges that impact the future. Many of it's provisions
were directed toward improving healthcare such as reduced COBRA health-
insurance premiums, a tax credit for health coverage to encourage greater
compliance, and federal funding or incentives for healthcare organizations to
upgrade HIT systems - ANSWER: ARRA - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
A component of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) This Act, provided
economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHRs, in alignment with the goal
that each person in the United States would have a certified digital health record by
2014. - ANSWER: HITECH - Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical
Health
Formed in an effort to improve the coordination of care along with patient medical
homes (PMHs). This brings together primary care providers, specialists, and hospitals
to share information and coordinate care and payment plans with the aims of
greater efficiency and quality at a lower cost and, ideally, with less aggravation for
the patient (Dewey, 2016). - ANSWER: ACOs - Accountable Care Organizations
, Standardization of clinical terms used in patient records facilitates interoperability as
it ensures a common understanding of terms. - ANSWER: Vocabulary Standards
The ability to read, write, and comprehend—are prerequisites to higher forms of
literacy. - ANSWER: Basic Literacy
A term used to refer to the basic understanding and use of computers, software
tools, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, social media, and
communication via email. - ANSWER: Computer Literacy
Involves both the ability to locate information and to interpret information in a
manner that is relevant to the user. - ANSWER: Information Literacy
Set two goals relative to HIT for their 2016-2018 public policy agenda that included
representing the role of the clinical nurse specialist in relevant legislative, policy, and
advocacy efforts for increased access to healthcare via the use of technology. -
ANSWER: NACNS - National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
The federal entity charged with coordinating national efforts to implement and use
HIT and electronic exchange of health information, invites input from healthcare
professionals and consumers - ANSWER: ONCHIT - Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology
Was formed to advance nurses' competencies related to informatics. Its primary
objective was to develop a US nursing workforce capable of using electronic health
records to improve the delivery of health care. - ANSWER: TIGER - Technology
Informatics Guiding Education Reform
In recent years, TIGER's work was adopted and now is managed by this organization,
a professional association of health-information-technology stakeholders and
venders - ANSWER: HIMSS - Health-care Information and Management Systems
Society
ANI - ANSWER: Alliance for Nursing Informatics
Is the individual's freedom to control interferences by others, retaining a personal
capacity for intentional action - ANSWER: Autonomy
This establish the structure and organization of the content that it transported
within electronic health information documents. - ANSWER: Content standards
The obligation for doing no intentional harm, - ANSWER: Nonmaleficence
Refers to actions that result in positive outcomes in which benefits and utility are
balanced. - ANSWER: Beneficence
