Information System
Ans: an 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)
Financial applications
Ans: software applications that handle patient accounts, budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers
Ans: large computers that are used by the government and other organizations that require
speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
,Dumb Terminals
Ans: all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing
Ans: a system that operates on a computer that is owned and maintained by a vendor.
Intranet
Ans: a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however, its servers are
located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to
information housed within the network
Health Information Exchange
Ans: the exchange of health information electronically between providers and others with the
same level of interoperability.
Evidence-based medicine
Ans: healthcare services based on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested through
controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways
,Ans: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses and
treatments
clinical practice guidelines
Ans: provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make
knowledge-based decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative organization
such as a medical society.
Health Informatics
Ans: scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and
communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the information
science and technology to support these tasks
Data Analytics
Ans: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that
information
Data mining
Ans: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for the purpose
of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those
relationships to predict behaviors.
, dashboards
Ans: reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to assist with strategic
planning
descriptive statistics
Ans: set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as means, frequency distributions,
and standard deviations; describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
inferential statistics
Ans: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make generalizations about a
population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's characteristics,
predictive modeling
Ans: process used to identify patterns that can be used to predict the odds of a particular
outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is likely to
happen in the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA)
Ans: advanced certification covers data management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems
Ans: an 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)
Financial applications
Ans: software applications that handle patient accounts, budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers
Ans: large computers that are used by the government and other organizations that require
speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
,Dumb Terminals
Ans: all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing
Ans: a system that operates on a computer that is owned and maintained by a vendor.
Intranet
Ans: a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however, its servers are
located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to
information housed within the network
Health Information Exchange
Ans: the exchange of health information electronically between providers and others with the
same level of interoperability.
Evidence-based medicine
Ans: healthcare services based on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested through
controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways
,Ans: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses and
treatments
clinical practice guidelines
Ans: provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make
knowledge-based decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative organization
such as a medical society.
Health Informatics
Ans: scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and
communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the information
science and technology to support these tasks
Data Analytics
Ans: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that
information
Data mining
Ans: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for the purpose
of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those
relationships to predict behaviors.
, dashboards
Ans: reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to assist with strategic
planning
descriptive statistics
Ans: set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as means, frequency distributions,
and standard deviations; describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
inferential statistics
Ans: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make generalizations about a
population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's characteristics,
predictive modeling
Ans: process used to identify patterns that can be used to predict the odds of a particular
outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is likely to
happen in the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA)
Ans: advanced certification covers data management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems
