HEALTH INFORMATICS MIDTERM TEST| ACTUAL
QUESTIONS & CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS |
GRADED A+
1. Why is healthcare data difficult to measure? ANS >> It is in multiple
places, Structured & unstructured, inconsistent/variable definitions
2. Structured data ANS >> pre-defined data that is easy to search
~ SSN, transaction info, dates, phone numbers, addresses
billing codes, lab results
3. Unstructured data ANS >> Difficult to search, occurs in different
formats clinical notes
4. What does IHI Triple Aim do? ANS >> Improve health of populations, improve
patient experience of care, reduce the cost of healthcare
5. Sustaining Tech ANS >> relies on incremental improvements to an already
established technology. it enhances the characteristics
~smartphone market
6. Disruptive Tech ANS >> underperforms at first, limited audience, may not yet
proven practical application
~snail mail to email
7. Government Facilitation ANS >> technological innovations were supported
and sus- tained by government. Like GPS or google
8. HITECH Act of 2009 ANS >> gave incentives to orgs to use Meaningful Use of
health info tech (or a criteria for EHRs)
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, 9. Affordable Care Act ANS >> expanded coverage, lowered cost, overall
improved the experience via use of technology
10. What are levels of sophisticated and standardized data? ANS >> Level 1 -
nonelec- tric data (paper records)
Level 2 - Unstructured, but viewable (scans of paper forms)
Level 3 - Structured but viewable (electronically entered data unable to be computed
by other systems)
Level 4 - Computable electronic data (electronically entered and can be computed
by other systems)
11. What is health informatics? ANS >> Field of information science,
management of hc data and information through use of technology. A sharing of
health information between people & entities
12. What is Health Information Management (HIM) ANS >> deals with medical
coding & assigning codes
13. Key elements of Informatics ANS >> - Acquisition
- Storage
- Communication
- Manipulation
- Display
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QUESTIONS & CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS |
GRADED A+
1. Why is healthcare data difficult to measure? ANS >> It is in multiple
places, Structured & unstructured, inconsistent/variable definitions
2. Structured data ANS >> pre-defined data that is easy to search
~ SSN, transaction info, dates, phone numbers, addresses
billing codes, lab results
3. Unstructured data ANS >> Difficult to search, occurs in different
formats clinical notes
4. What does IHI Triple Aim do? ANS >> Improve health of populations, improve
patient experience of care, reduce the cost of healthcare
5. Sustaining Tech ANS >> relies on incremental improvements to an already
established technology. it enhances the characteristics
~smartphone market
6. Disruptive Tech ANS >> underperforms at first, limited audience, may not yet
proven practical application
~snail mail to email
7. Government Facilitation ANS >> technological innovations were supported
and sus- tained by government. Like GPS or google
8. HITECH Act of 2009 ANS >> gave incentives to orgs to use Meaningful Use of
health info tech (or a criteria for EHRs)
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, 9. Affordable Care Act ANS >> expanded coverage, lowered cost, overall
improved the experience via use of technology
10. What are levels of sophisticated and standardized data? ANS >> Level 1 -
nonelec- tric data (paper records)
Level 2 - Unstructured, but viewable (scans of paper forms)
Level 3 - Structured but viewable (electronically entered data unable to be computed
by other systems)
Level 4 - Computable electronic data (electronically entered and can be computed
by other systems)
11. What is health informatics? ANS >> Field of information science,
management of hc data and information through use of technology. A sharing of
health information between people & entities
12. What is Health Information Management (HIM) ANS >> deals with medical
coding & assigning codes
13. Key elements of Informatics ANS >> - Acquisition
- Storage
- Communication
- Manipulation
- Display
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