HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY AND
INFORMATICS EXAM 1
around the 1960s - Correct Answers -when did health informatics (HI) begin?
there are lots of data but less information, knowledge, and wisdom - Correct Answers -
explain the information hierarchy
numbers, symbols, or words - Correct Answers -what is data?
data with meaning - Correct Answers -what is information?
humans - Correct Answers -__ provide knowledge and wisdom
electronic health records and multiple other healthcare information systems - Correct
Answers -____ and ____ provided the ability and the need to collate and analyze large
amounts of data to improve health and financial decisions
clinical, financial, and administrative data - Correct Answers -large healthcare
organizations collect and analyze a variety of ___, ___, and ___ to make wise clinical
and business decisions.
practice management systems (PMSs) - Correct Answers -prior to EHR adoption, most
medical practices used an electronic ___ which are now essential to run any practice for
billing, dealing with insurance companies, and evaluating physician performance and
practice trends
to reduce medical errors - Correct Answers -why was computerized provider order entry
implemented?
clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) - Correct Answers -clinical data are
compared with reference information or with previously entered clinical data to supply
clinical reminders and alerts, context sensitive templates, order sets, and other results
health informatics - Correct Answers -field of information science concerned with the
management of healthcare data and information through the application of computers
and other technologies
the use of information, aided by technology; applying information - Correct Answers -the
discipline is focused on the _____, to improve individual health, healthcare, public
, health, and research in health. it is more about ____in the healthcare field than it is
about the technology
clinical informatics, medical informatics, and biomedical informatics - Correct Answers -
health informatics is also known as ______-
medical, dental, nursing, public health, pharmacy, medical imaging, and veterinary
informatics - Correct Answers -biomedical informatics is the most inclusive term
because it encompasses bioinformatics and ___
health information technology (HIT or health IT) - Correct Answers -application of
computers and technology in healthcare settings
health information management (HIM) - Correct Answers -traditionally focused on the
paper medical record and coding.
privacy and security(HIPAA), legal implications, data quality and integrity, data
governance, data analysis, and more - Correct Answers -With the advent of the
electronic health record, HIM specialists now deal with a new set of issues, such as:
information brokerage - Correct Answers -sharing of a variety of information back and
forth between people and healthcare entities
Informaticians (or informaticists) - Correct Answers -harness the power of information
technology to expedite the transfer and analysis of data, leading to improved
efficiencies and knowledge
IT knowledge about networks and systems, usability, process re-enginerring, workflow
analysis and redesign, quality improvement, and project management, leadership,
teamwork, implementation, and training - Correct Answers -Informatics training must be
expansive and includes:
increase healthcare efficiency and productivity, improve healthcare quality (pt
outcomes), improve patient safety, reduce healthcare costs, improve healthcare access
with technologies, improve coordination and continuity of care, improve medical
education of clinicians and patients, standardize medical care - Correct Answers -what
are the driving forces behind health informatics
HealthData.gov - Correct Answers -what is an organization that makes federal datasets
available to healthcare organizations, developers, and researchers?
in the 1970s - Correct Answers -computer technologies and early EHRs appeared in the
___ at the VA and Massachusetts General Hospital
1970s - Correct Answers -artificial intelligence (AI) appeared in medicine in the ___
INFORMATICS EXAM 1
around the 1960s - Correct Answers -when did health informatics (HI) begin?
there are lots of data but less information, knowledge, and wisdom - Correct Answers -
explain the information hierarchy
numbers, symbols, or words - Correct Answers -what is data?
data with meaning - Correct Answers -what is information?
humans - Correct Answers -__ provide knowledge and wisdom
electronic health records and multiple other healthcare information systems - Correct
Answers -____ and ____ provided the ability and the need to collate and analyze large
amounts of data to improve health and financial decisions
clinical, financial, and administrative data - Correct Answers -large healthcare
organizations collect and analyze a variety of ___, ___, and ___ to make wise clinical
and business decisions.
practice management systems (PMSs) - Correct Answers -prior to EHR adoption, most
medical practices used an electronic ___ which are now essential to run any practice for
billing, dealing with insurance companies, and evaluating physician performance and
practice trends
to reduce medical errors - Correct Answers -why was computerized provider order entry
implemented?
clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) - Correct Answers -clinical data are
compared with reference information or with previously entered clinical data to supply
clinical reminders and alerts, context sensitive templates, order sets, and other results
health informatics - Correct Answers -field of information science concerned with the
management of healthcare data and information through the application of computers
and other technologies
the use of information, aided by technology; applying information - Correct Answers -the
discipline is focused on the _____, to improve individual health, healthcare, public
, health, and research in health. it is more about ____in the healthcare field than it is
about the technology
clinical informatics, medical informatics, and biomedical informatics - Correct Answers -
health informatics is also known as ______-
medical, dental, nursing, public health, pharmacy, medical imaging, and veterinary
informatics - Correct Answers -biomedical informatics is the most inclusive term
because it encompasses bioinformatics and ___
health information technology (HIT or health IT) - Correct Answers -application of
computers and technology in healthcare settings
health information management (HIM) - Correct Answers -traditionally focused on the
paper medical record and coding.
privacy and security(HIPAA), legal implications, data quality and integrity, data
governance, data analysis, and more - Correct Answers -With the advent of the
electronic health record, HIM specialists now deal with a new set of issues, such as:
information brokerage - Correct Answers -sharing of a variety of information back and
forth between people and healthcare entities
Informaticians (or informaticists) - Correct Answers -harness the power of information
technology to expedite the transfer and analysis of data, leading to improved
efficiencies and knowledge
IT knowledge about networks and systems, usability, process re-enginerring, workflow
analysis and redesign, quality improvement, and project management, leadership,
teamwork, implementation, and training - Correct Answers -Informatics training must be
expansive and includes:
increase healthcare efficiency and productivity, improve healthcare quality (pt
outcomes), improve patient safety, reduce healthcare costs, improve healthcare access
with technologies, improve coordination and continuity of care, improve medical
education of clinicians and patients, standardize medical care - Correct Answers -what
are the driving forces behind health informatics
HealthData.gov - Correct Answers -what is an organization that makes federal datasets
available to healthcare organizations, developers, and researchers?
in the 1970s - Correct Answers -computer technologies and early EHRs appeared in the
___ at the VA and Massachusetts General Hospital
1970s - Correct Answers -artificial intelligence (AI) appeared in medicine in the ___
