WGU D220 NURSING INFORMATICS FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2025/2026)
ARRA - ANSWER-American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Authorized incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR
Provides eco stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs
ADT - ANSWER-admission, discharge, transfer
Tracks patients activities and location
Analytic science - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-RPM (remote patient monitoring)
Devices capture or data and send to different location
Review for clinical decision making
Audit trails - ANSWER-(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 - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-Need tech to decipher
Help identify patterns/trends
CDSS - ANSWER-clinical decision support system
Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge
CIS - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-Computerized Provider Order Entry
Configurability - ANSWER-Refers to the extent that are given software product can be adopted or
changed to me a users preference?
Connected health - ANSWER-Model or platform by which technology assisted healthcare, is delivered
between at least two points involving either synchronous or asynchronous exchange
C-CDA - ANSWER-Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
Allows interop of health information exchange between hospitals
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2025/2026)
ARRA - ANSWER-American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Authorized incentive payments - for adopting interop HIT / EHR
Provides eco stimuli / incentives for adoption of EHRs
ADT - ANSWER-admission, discharge, transfer
Tracks patients activities and location
Analytic science - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-RPM (remote patient monitoring)
Devices capture or data and send to different location
Review for clinical decision making
Audit trails - ANSWER-(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 - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-Need tech to decipher
Help identify patterns/trends
CDSS - ANSWER-clinical decision support system
Helps making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge
CIS - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-Computerized Provider Order Entry
Configurability - ANSWER-Refers to the extent that are given software product can be adopted or
changed to me a users preference?
Connected health - ANSWER-Model or platform by which technology assisted healthcare, is delivered
between at least two points involving either synchronous or asynchronous exchange
C-CDA - ANSWER-Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
Allows interop of health information exchange between hospitals
