Q1
Interest in healthcare data has grown exponentially due to
Answer: EHR incentives after the HITECH Act and the addition of genomic information
that will eventually be integrated with EHRs
Q2
One of the promises of the growing clinical data in electronic health record (EHR) systems is
Answer: secondary use (or re-use) of the data for other purposes, such as quality
improvement and clinical research
Q3
Different Types of Analytics increases
Answer: functionality and value
Q4
Different Types of Analytics
Answer: descriptive, predictive, prescriptive
Q5
Analytics Concepts
Answer: machine learning, data mining, text mining, provenance, business intelligence
and clinical intelligence, learning health system
Q6
Machine learning
Answer: Area of computer science that aims to build systems and algorithms that
learn from data
Q7
Data mining
Answer: Computer-based process of extracting, quantifying, and filtering data that
resides in a database to discover previously unknown patterns or relationships
, Q8
text mining
Answer: Applies data mining techniques to mostly unstructured textual data
Q9
provenance
Answer: Where the data originated and how trustworthy it is for large-scale
processing and analysis
Q10
Business intelligence and Clinical intelligence
Answer: The knowledge acquisition resulting from the collection, evaluation, analysis,
and interpretation of data
Q11
Learning health system
Answer: A health system where data can be used for continuous learning to allow the
healthcare system to better carry out disease surveillance and response, targeting of
healthcare services, improving decision-making, managing misinformation, reducing
harm, avoiding costly errors, and advancing clinical research
Q12
Healthcare organizations are generating an
Answer: ever-increasing amount of data.
Q13
In all healthcare organizations, clinical data
Answer: takes a variety of forms
Q14
Big Data describes
Answer: Describes large and ever-increasing volumes of data