D220 Nursing Informatics WGU Practice Exam Guide
with Questions and Rationalized Answers
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1. ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Authorized
incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR Provides eco
stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs
2. ADT: admission, discharge, transfer
Tracks patients activities and location
3. 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.
4. Asynchronous applications: RPM (remote patient monitoring)
Devices capture or data and send to different location
Review for clinical decision making
5. Audit trails: (Audit name not required. .... ??)
Goal is to improve data integrity
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, One of many ways to ensure data integrity
-contain name of user (??), app triggering audit, workstation, specific docu, descrip-
tion of event, date/time
6. 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.
7. Big data: Need tech to decipher
Help identify patterns/trends
8. CDSS: clinical decision support system
Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical
knowledge
9. 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.
10. CPOE: Computerized Provider Order Entry
11. Configurability: Refers to the extent that are given software product can be
adopted or changed to me a users preference?
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with Questions and Rationalized Answers
100% Guaranteed Pass
1. ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Authorized
incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR Provides eco
stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs
2. ADT: admission, discharge, transfer
Tracks patients activities and location
3. 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.
4. Asynchronous applications: RPM (remote patient monitoring)
Devices capture or data and send to different location
Review for clinical decision making
5. Audit trails: (Audit name not required. .... ??)
Goal is to improve data integrity
1/
11
, One of many ways to ensure data integrity
-contain name of user (??), app triggering audit, workstation, specific docu, descrip-
tion of event, date/time
6. 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.
7. Big data: Need tech to decipher
Help identify patterns/trends
8. CDSS: clinical decision support system
Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical
knowledge
9. 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.
10. CPOE: Computerized Provider Order Entry
11. Configurability: Refers to the extent that are given software product can be
adopted or changed to me a users preference?
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11
