WGU 468 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TEST PAPER 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Based upon your reading, what do you see as the future areas for health information
technology policy development? - ✔✔Large datasets resulting from Meaningful Use and
other incentives will provide increased bodies of evidence to support HIT policy
decisions that weigh national as well as global implications.
✔✔Best typifies the role of the Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS) in relationship to
legislation? - ✔✔The INS needs to be aware of the implications of legislation for HIT
design and use and to appropriately educate users.
✔✔The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is best known for: -
✔✔created legal protection for PHI
✔✔The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - ✔✔provided funds
for health information technology (HIT)
✔✔Strategic Planning - ✔✔The development of a comprehensive long-range plan for
guiding the activities and operations of an organization.
✔✔Examples of goals of information systems strategic planning - ✔✔-To enhance the
organizations image
-To support business and clinical decisions
-To make effective use of emerging technologies
**Except
-to limit the need for other technologies
✔✔Benchmarking - ✔✔is the continual process of measuring services and practices
against the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry.
✔✔Usability is important to informatics nurse specialists for which of the following
reasons? - ✔✔Poor usability can lead to errors, jeopardize patient safety, and impact
acceptance and use of technology.
✔✔In addition to ease of use and potential for unintended error, usability also considers
which of the following? - ✔✔efficiency, user satisfaction, and training issues
✔✔Well-designed systems can lead to which outcomes? - ✔✔Improved information
availability, displays, and interpretation
✔✔Integration - ✔✔is the process by which different information systems are able to
exchange data in a fashion that is seamless to the end user.
,✔✔Interface - ✔✔a computer program that tells two different systems how to exchange
data
✔✔Health Level 7 (HL7) - ✔✔A standard for the exchange of clinical data between
information systems by means of an extensive set of rules that apply to all data sent.
✔✔Data Analysis - ✔✔is the processing of data collected during the course of a study
to identify trends and patterns of relationships.
✔✔What is the role of nursing in the adoption and use of standard terminologies? -
✔✔Nursing needs to adopt standard terminologies as a means to collect data that has a
uniform meaning across settings as a way to increase the body of nursing knowledge.
✔✔The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: - ✔✔Guarantees access to
healthcare for all Americans and incentives to change clinical practice to foster better
coordination and quality of care.
✔✔System Security involves protection against - ✔✔deliberate attacks, errors,
omissions, disasters and viruses
✔✔automatic sign-off - ✔✔Mechanism that logs a user off the system after a specified
period of inactivity on his terminal or computer.
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔The sharing of private information in a situation in which a
relationship has been established for the purpose of treatment, or delivery of services,
with the understanding that this information will remain protected.
✔✔Firewall - ✔✔is a combination of hardware and software that forms a barrier
between systems, or different parts of a single system to protect those systems from
unauthorized access.
✔✔Remote Access - ✔✔The ability to use a health enterprise's information system from
outside locations such as a physicians office is known as remote access.
✔✔What are the driving forces behind the Health Information Exchange (HIE)
movement? - ✔✔Federal legislation, and demand for safer, more efficient healthcare.
✔✔How do Health Information Exchanges (HIE) impact healthcare delivery? - ✔✔HIEs
increase the efficiency and potentially the quality of the healthcare delivery system.
✔✔What is the relationship between Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and the
EHR? - ✔✔HIEs help to provide the framework needed to provide widespread data
exchange and subsequently support the EHR.
, ✔✔The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)
is best known for? - ✔✔The funds and incentives it provided to increase the use of
EHRs by physicians.
✔✔Changes in federal privacy and security provisions with major impacts for medical
practices, hospitals, health plans, and their business associates include? - ✔✔the
requirement to notify individuals whose PHI has been breached within 60 days of the
breach.
✔✔Implementation phase - ✔✔The project timeline is established in this phase of the
information system life cycle.
✔✔Implementation - ✔✔A system is installed during the "implementation" phase.
✔✔Maintenance of an Information system includes all of the following: - ✔✔-performing
backups
-debugging
-problem solving
**except
-training
✔✔The implementation committee - ✔✔Who determines the project implementation
strategy.
✔✔Develop a timeline - ✔✔The first task of the project implementation team.
✔✔An advantage to using super users for system training is that ______. - ✔✔Super
users have a specialized knowledge of both the system and clinical areas.
✔✔education - ✔✔The most important factor in maintaining the proper use of an
Information system.
✔✔Training class content should address the following areas: - ✔✔basic computer
literacy, workflow, policies and human factors
✔✔Personal Health Record (PHR) use for management of chronic conditions is felt to
hold great promise for which reason? - ✔✔PHR may help health systems achieve
greater efficiency through facilitating prescription refills, communication, and improved
coordination of chronic conditions as well as quality of care.
✔✔Client engagement is considered to be critical to achieving healthcare reform. Fully
functional PHRs support which of the following principles that engage clients in their
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Based upon your reading, what do you see as the future areas for health information
technology policy development? - ✔✔Large datasets resulting from Meaningful Use and
other incentives will provide increased bodies of evidence to support HIT policy
decisions that weigh national as well as global implications.
✔✔Best typifies the role of the Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS) in relationship to
legislation? - ✔✔The INS needs to be aware of the implications of legislation for HIT
design and use and to appropriately educate users.
✔✔The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is best known for: -
✔✔created legal protection for PHI
✔✔The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - ✔✔provided funds
for health information technology (HIT)
✔✔Strategic Planning - ✔✔The development of a comprehensive long-range plan for
guiding the activities and operations of an organization.
✔✔Examples of goals of information systems strategic planning - ✔✔-To enhance the
organizations image
-To support business and clinical decisions
-To make effective use of emerging technologies
**Except
-to limit the need for other technologies
✔✔Benchmarking - ✔✔is the continual process of measuring services and practices
against the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry.
✔✔Usability is important to informatics nurse specialists for which of the following
reasons? - ✔✔Poor usability can lead to errors, jeopardize patient safety, and impact
acceptance and use of technology.
✔✔In addition to ease of use and potential for unintended error, usability also considers
which of the following? - ✔✔efficiency, user satisfaction, and training issues
✔✔Well-designed systems can lead to which outcomes? - ✔✔Improved information
availability, displays, and interpretation
✔✔Integration - ✔✔is the process by which different information systems are able to
exchange data in a fashion that is seamless to the end user.
,✔✔Interface - ✔✔a computer program that tells two different systems how to exchange
data
✔✔Health Level 7 (HL7) - ✔✔A standard for the exchange of clinical data between
information systems by means of an extensive set of rules that apply to all data sent.
✔✔Data Analysis - ✔✔is the processing of data collected during the course of a study
to identify trends and patterns of relationships.
✔✔What is the role of nursing in the adoption and use of standard terminologies? -
✔✔Nursing needs to adopt standard terminologies as a means to collect data that has a
uniform meaning across settings as a way to increase the body of nursing knowledge.
✔✔The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: - ✔✔Guarantees access to
healthcare for all Americans and incentives to change clinical practice to foster better
coordination and quality of care.
✔✔System Security involves protection against - ✔✔deliberate attacks, errors,
omissions, disasters and viruses
✔✔automatic sign-off - ✔✔Mechanism that logs a user off the system after a specified
period of inactivity on his terminal or computer.
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔The sharing of private information in a situation in which a
relationship has been established for the purpose of treatment, or delivery of services,
with the understanding that this information will remain protected.
✔✔Firewall - ✔✔is a combination of hardware and software that forms a barrier
between systems, or different parts of a single system to protect those systems from
unauthorized access.
✔✔Remote Access - ✔✔The ability to use a health enterprise's information system from
outside locations such as a physicians office is known as remote access.
✔✔What are the driving forces behind the Health Information Exchange (HIE)
movement? - ✔✔Federal legislation, and demand for safer, more efficient healthcare.
✔✔How do Health Information Exchanges (HIE) impact healthcare delivery? - ✔✔HIEs
increase the efficiency and potentially the quality of the healthcare delivery system.
✔✔What is the relationship between Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and the
EHR? - ✔✔HIEs help to provide the framework needed to provide widespread data
exchange and subsequently support the EHR.
, ✔✔The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)
is best known for? - ✔✔The funds and incentives it provided to increase the use of
EHRs by physicians.
✔✔Changes in federal privacy and security provisions with major impacts for medical
practices, hospitals, health plans, and their business associates include? - ✔✔the
requirement to notify individuals whose PHI has been breached within 60 days of the
breach.
✔✔Implementation phase - ✔✔The project timeline is established in this phase of the
information system life cycle.
✔✔Implementation - ✔✔A system is installed during the "implementation" phase.
✔✔Maintenance of an Information system includes all of the following: - ✔✔-performing
backups
-debugging
-problem solving
**except
-training
✔✔The implementation committee - ✔✔Who determines the project implementation
strategy.
✔✔Develop a timeline - ✔✔The first task of the project implementation team.
✔✔An advantage to using super users for system training is that ______. - ✔✔Super
users have a specialized knowledge of both the system and clinical areas.
✔✔education - ✔✔The most important factor in maintaining the proper use of an
Information system.
✔✔Training class content should address the following areas: - ✔✔basic computer
literacy, workflow, policies and human factors
✔✔Personal Health Record (PHR) use for management of chronic conditions is felt to
hold great promise for which reason? - ✔✔PHR may help health systems achieve
greater efficiency through facilitating prescription refills, communication, and improved
coordination of chronic conditions as well as quality of care.
✔✔Client engagement is considered to be critical to achieving healthcare reform. Fully
functional PHRs support which of the following principles that engage clients in their
