WGU D220 Nursing Informatics Exam Study Guide 2024

ARRA - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Authorized incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR Provides eco stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs ADT - admission, discharge, transfer Tracks patients activities and location Analytic science - Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer to basic questions: what do I have? How much a bit do I have? Environment, Pharmacy, safety, and security, fraud, detection, and healthcare diagnostics. Asynchronous applications - RPM (remote patient monitoring) Devices capture or data and send to different location Review for clinical decision making Audit trails - (Audit name not required .... ??) Goal is to improve data integrity One of many ways to ensure data integrity -contain name of user (??), app triggering audit, workstation, specific docu, description of event, date/time Benchmark - The continual process of measuring services and practices against the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry. Comparing the performance of an organization, or clinician to others. Big data - Need tech to decipher Help identify patterns/trends CDSS - clinical decision support system Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge CIS - Clinical information system Software are used to access client, data, plan, implement, and evaluate care. Provides patient centric decision, making functionality to help guide decision- making while caring for patients. CPOE - Computerized Provider Order Entry Configurability - Refers to the extent that are given software product can be adopted or changed to me a users preference? Connected health - Model or platform by which technology assisted healthcare, is delivered between at least two points involving either synchronous or asynchronous exchange C-CDA - Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture Allows interop of health information exchange between hospitals Data analysis - Identifies trends in patterns of relationships Data integrity - Ability to collect, store, and retrieved, correct, complete, and current data, so that the data are available to authorize users when needed To prevent compromised data is to use security measures in audit trails Data mining - Technique that look for fit in patterns and relationships in large groups of data using a software EHR - Database of individuals, healthcare data during health care, encounters, electronic health record EMR - Electronic medical record. Brings together diagnostic and treatment information for an individual any specific healthcare setting EMRAM - Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model Measures clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and clinical use of EMR technology. Fish bone - Each war for analyzing the organizational processes, and it's effectiveness. Helps team members visually diagram, a problem or conditions, root causes, allowing them to truly diagnose the problem, rather than focusing on the symptoms. HIE - Health information exchange. Between healthcare providers. Includes insurance. Query based exchange - HIE. Often used for unplanned events. EX: ED. Providers to find and request information on a patient from other providers i.e. cardiologist office Direct exchange - HIE. Support coordinated care, and allows the ability to send and receive secure information electronically between care providers. Consumer mediated exchange - HIE. Ability for patients to review, manage, and control the use of their health information among providers HIT - Health information, technology. Systems and technology used to record, monitor, and deliver patient care, as well as perform managerial and organizational functions. HITECH act - Provides funds and incentives to increase EH are used by providers, improve policy, decisions, and allocate services, funded workforce training, and new technology research. HIPAA - 18 identifiers HL7 - Health level 7 Specifies how data is coded Health literacy - Can understand and ask questions Informatics - In the science and art of turning data into information. Combines computer, decision, information management, cognitive sciences, and organizational theory. Information - Data that has been interpreted Interface - Computer program that tells two different systems how to exchange data ICD - 10 - Mortality and morbidity Reimbursement Interoperability - Between two entities human, or a machine to exchange and predictively use data or information while retaining the original meaning of the data