LSUS MHA 705 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS(2025-2026)UPDATE!!
information systems (IS) - ANSWERAn automated system that uses computer
hardware and software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data
(that is, a system that receives and processes input and provides output); often used
inter-changeably with information technology (IT)
systems development life
cycle (SDLC) - ANSWERA model used to represent the ongoing process of
developing (or purchasing) information systems
Informatics - ANSWERthe science of information management.A field of study that
focuses on the use of tech-nology to improve access to, and utilization of,
information
clinical data repository - ANSWERa component of the
EHR that captures data. A central database that fo-cuses on clinical information.
data types - ANSWERA technical category of data (text, numbers, cur-rency, date,
memo, and link data) that a field in a database can contain
discrete data - ANSWERData that represent separate and distinct val-ues or
observations; that is, data that contain only finite num-bers and have only specified
values.
Free-text data - ANSWERData that are narrative in nature
structured data - ANSWERBinary, computer-readable data
Diagnostic image data - ANSWERBit-mapped images used for medi-cal or
diagnostic purposes (for example, chest x-rays or com-puted tomography scans)
bit-mapped data - ANSWERData made up of pixels displayed on a horizontal and
vertical grid or matrix
raster image - ANSWERA digital image or digital data made up of pixels in a
horizontal and vertical grid or a matrix instead of lines plotted between a series of
points.
pixel - ANSWERAn abbreviation for the term picture element, which is defined by
many tiny bits of data or pointsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
,Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
analog - ANSWERData or information that is not represented in an en-coded,
computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital - ANSWER1. A data transmission type based on data that have been binary
encoded 2. A term that refers to the data or information represented in an encoded,
computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital modalities - ANSWERcomputed radiography (CR), CT,
magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
information management. - ANSWERThe acquisition, organization, analysis,
storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information to support decision-making
activities
Healthcare informatics - ANSWERthe field of information science concerned with the
management
of all aspects of health data and information through
the application of computers and computer technologies.The field of information
science concerned with the management of all aspects of health data and
information through the application of computers and computer technologies
information science - ANSWERThe study of the nature and principles of information.
Applied healthcare informatics - ANSWERAutomated information systems applied to
healthcare delivery business and work-flow processes, including the diagnosis,
therapy, and systems of managing health data and information within the health-care
setting
Real audio data - ANSWERsound bytes, such as digital heart sounds.The storing,
manipulating, and displaying of sound in a computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press,
2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
,Motion or streaming
video/frame data - ANSWERcardiac catheterizations, consist
of digital film attributes, such as fast forwarding.A medium for storing, manipulating,
and displaying moving images in a format, such as frames, that can be presented on
a computer monitorMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M.,
et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K.
M., American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., &
Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
vector graphic - ANSWERDigital data that have been captured as points and are
connected by lines (a se-ries of point coordinates) or areas (shapes bounded by
lines)MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P.
K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol.
4th ed. AHIMA Press.
speech recognition technology - ANSWERTechnology that translates speech to
textMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P.
K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol.
4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Continuous speech input - ANSWERThe quality of speech/voice rec-ognition
technology that does not require users to pause be-tween words to allow the
computer to distinguish between the beginnings and endings of wordsMLA 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press,
2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
natural language processing
technology - ANSWERThe extraction of unstructured or structured medical word
data, which are then translated into diagnostic or procedural codes for clinical and
administrative applicationsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Autocoding - ANSWERThe process of extracting and translating dic-tated and then
transcribed free-text data (or dictated and then computer-generated discrete data)
, into ICD-9-CM and CPT evaluation and management codes for billing and cod-ing
purposesMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al.
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed,
AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P.
K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol.
4th ed. AHIMA Press.
computer-assisted coding - ANSWERthe terms
commonly used to describe natural language processing
technology's method of extracting and subsequently translating
dictated and then transcribed free-text data, or dictated
and then computer-generated discrete data, into ICD or CPT
codes for clinical and financial applications such as patient
billing and health record coding. The process of extract-ing and translating dictated
and then transcribed free-text data (or dictated and then computer-generated
discrete data) into ICD-9-CM and CPT evaluation and management codes for billing
and coding purposesMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen
M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol.
4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Text mining and data mining - ANSWERterms commonly used to describe the
process of
extracting and then quantifying and filtering free-text data
and discrete data, respectively.The process of extracting and then quantifying and
filtering free-text dataMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen
M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol.
4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
signal tracing data - ANSWERcreated by saving lines plotted between a series of
points,
accounting for the familiar electrocardiograms (ECGs),
electroencephalograms (EEGs), and fetal heart rate (FHR)
tracings.
unstructured data - ANSWERNonbinary, human-readable dataMLA 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press,
2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
multimedia - ANSWERThe combination of free-text, raster or vector graphics, sound,
and motion video/frame dataMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
ANSWERS(2025-2026)UPDATE!!
information systems (IS) - ANSWERAn automated system that uses computer
hardware and software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data
(that is, a system that receives and processes input and provides output); often used
inter-changeably with information technology (IT)
systems development life
cycle (SDLC) - ANSWERA model used to represent the ongoing process of
developing (or purchasing) information systems
Informatics - ANSWERthe science of information management.A field of study that
focuses on the use of tech-nology to improve access to, and utilization of,
information
clinical data repository - ANSWERa component of the
EHR that captures data. A central database that fo-cuses on clinical information.
data types - ANSWERA technical category of data (text, numbers, cur-rency, date,
memo, and link data) that a field in a database can contain
discrete data - ANSWERData that represent separate and distinct val-ues or
observations; that is, data that contain only finite num-bers and have only specified
values.
Free-text data - ANSWERData that are narrative in nature
structured data - ANSWERBinary, computer-readable data
Diagnostic image data - ANSWERBit-mapped images used for medi-cal or
diagnostic purposes (for example, chest x-rays or com-puted tomography scans)
bit-mapped data - ANSWERData made up of pixels displayed on a horizontal and
vertical grid or matrix
raster image - ANSWERA digital image or digital data made up of pixels in a
horizontal and vertical grid or a matrix instead of lines plotted between a series of
points.
pixel - ANSWERAn abbreviation for the term picture element, which is defined by
many tiny bits of data or pointsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
,Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
analog - ANSWERData or information that is not represented in an en-coded,
computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital - ANSWER1. A data transmission type based on data that have been binary
encoded 2. A term that refers to the data or information represented in an encoded,
computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital modalities - ANSWERcomputed radiography (CR), CT,
magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
information management. - ANSWERThe acquisition, organization, analysis,
storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information to support decision-making
activities
Healthcare informatics - ANSWERthe field of information science concerned with the
management
of all aspects of health data and information through
the application of computers and computer technologies.The field of information
science concerned with the management of all aspects of health data and
information through the application of computers and computer technologies
information science - ANSWERThe study of the nature and principles of information.
Applied healthcare informatics - ANSWERAutomated information systems applied to
healthcare delivery business and work-flow processes, including the diagnosis,
therapy, and systems of managing health data and information within the health-care
setting
Real audio data - ANSWERsound bytes, such as digital heart sounds.The storing,
manipulating, and displaying of sound in a computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press,
2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
,Motion or streaming
video/frame data - ANSWERcardiac catheterizations, consist
of digital film attributes, such as fast forwarding.A medium for storing, manipulating,
and displaying moving images in a format, such as frames, that can be presented on
a computer monitorMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M.,
et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K.
M., American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., &
Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
vector graphic - ANSWERDigital data that have been captured as points and are
connected by lines (a se-ries of point coordinates) or areas (shapes bounded by
lines)MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P.
K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol.
4th ed. AHIMA Press.
speech recognition technology - ANSWERTechnology that translates speech to
textMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P.
K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol.
4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Continuous speech input - ANSWERThe quality of speech/voice rec-ognition
technology that does not require users to pause be-tween words to allow the
computer to distinguish between the beginnings and endings of wordsMLA 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press,
2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
natural language processing
technology - ANSWERThe extraction of unstructured or structured medical word
data, which are then translated into diagnostic or procedural codes for clinical and
administrative applicationsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and
Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Autocoding - ANSWERThe process of extracting and translating dic-tated and then
transcribed free-text data (or dictated and then computer-generated discrete data)
, into ICD-9-CM and CPT evaluation and management codes for billing and cod-ing
purposesMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al.
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed,
AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P.
K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol.
4th ed. AHIMA Press.
computer-assisted coding - ANSWERthe terms
commonly used to describe natural language processing
technology's method of extracting and subsequently translating
dictated and then transcribed free-text data, or dictated
and then computer-generated discrete data, into ICD or CPT
codes for clinical and financial applications such as patient
billing and health record coding. The process of extract-ing and translating dictated
and then transcribed free-text data (or dictated and then computer-generated
discrete data) into ICD-9-CM and CPT evaluation and management codes for billing
and coding purposesMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen
M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol.
4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Text mining and data mining - ANSWERterms commonly used to describe the
process of
extracting and then quantifying and filtering free-text data
and discrete data, respectively.The process of extracting and then quantifying and
filtering free-text dataMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen
M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol.
4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
signal tracing data - ANSWERcreated by saving lines plotted between a series of
points,
accounting for the familiar electrocardiograms (ECGs),
electroencephalograms (EEGs), and fetal heart rate (FHR)
tracings.
unstructured data - ANSWERNonbinary, human-readable dataMLA 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press,
2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
multimedia - ANSWERThe combination of free-text, raster or vector graphics, sound,
and motion video/frame dataMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
