HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS COURSE GUIDE D033 WGU |
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | LATEST EXAM
Information System - CORRECT ANSWER - an automated system that uses
computer hardware and software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and
disseminate data (that is, a system that receives and processes input and
provides output)
Financial applications - CORRECT ANSWER - software applications that
handle patient accounts, budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers - CORRECT ANSWER - large computers that are used
by the government and other organizations that require speed and the ability to
process large amounts of data.
Dumb Terminals - CORRECT ANSWER - all of the processing is performed
at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing - CORRECT ANSWER - a system that operates on a
computer that is owned and maintained by a vendor.
Intranet - CORRECT ANSWER - a private information network that uses
Internet technologies; however, its servers are located inside a firewall or
security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to information
housed within the network
Health Information Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER - the exchange of health
information electronically between providers and others with the same level of
interoperability.
,Evidence-based medicine - CORRECT ANSWER - healthcare services based
on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-
reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways - CORRECT ANSWER - a tool designed to coordinate
multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses and treatments
clinical practice guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER - provide a detailed, step-
by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make knowledge-based
decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative organization such
as a medical society.
Health Informatics - CORRECT ANSWER - scientific discipline that is
concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and communication tasks
of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the information
science and technology to support these tasks
Data Analytics - CORRECT ANSWER - the science of examining raw data
with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information
Data mining - CORRECT ANSWER - process of extracting and analyzing
large volumes of data from a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and
sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those relationships to
predict behaviors.
dashboards - CORRECT ANSWER - reports of process measures to help
leaders follow progress to assist with strategic planning
descriptive statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - set of statistical techniques used
to describe data, such as means, frequency distributions, and standard
deviations; describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
, inferential statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - set of statistical techniques that
allows researchers to make generalizations about a population's characteristics
on the basis of a sample's characteristics,
predictive modeling - CORRECT ANSWER - process used to identify patterns
that can be used to predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the
observed data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is likely to happen in
the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA) - CORRECT ANSWER - advanced
certification covers data management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems - CORRECT ANSWER - collects and stores
medical, nursing, clinical ancillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and
therapy department information related to patient care
document management system - CORRECT ANSWER - electronic method of
capturing and managing documents.
target sheets - CORRECT ANSWER - pages that contain only a barcode that
tells the scanner and, ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that
follow
file server - CORRECT ANSWER - large PC or other computer that is
extremely powerful and has a large amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
abstracting and quality control workstation - CORRECT ANSWER -
workstation is used for indexing and quality control
backscanning - CORRECT ANSWER - process of scanning past health
records into the DMS so there is an existing database of patient information
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | LATEST EXAM
Information System - CORRECT ANSWER - an automated system that uses
computer hardware and software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and
disseminate data (that is, a system that receives and processes input and
provides output)
Financial applications - CORRECT ANSWER - software applications that
handle patient accounts, budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers - CORRECT ANSWER - large computers that are used
by the government and other organizations that require speed and the ability to
process large amounts of data.
Dumb Terminals - CORRECT ANSWER - all of the processing is performed
at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing - CORRECT ANSWER - a system that operates on a
computer that is owned and maintained by a vendor.
Intranet - CORRECT ANSWER - a private information network that uses
Internet technologies; however, its servers are located inside a firewall or
security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to information
housed within the network
Health Information Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER - the exchange of health
information electronically between providers and others with the same level of
interoperability.
,Evidence-based medicine - CORRECT ANSWER - healthcare services based
on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-
reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways - CORRECT ANSWER - a tool designed to coordinate
multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses and treatments
clinical practice guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER - provide a detailed, step-
by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make knowledge-based
decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative organization such
as a medical society.
Health Informatics - CORRECT ANSWER - scientific discipline that is
concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and communication tasks
of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the information
science and technology to support these tasks
Data Analytics - CORRECT ANSWER - the science of examining raw data
with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information
Data mining - CORRECT ANSWER - process of extracting and analyzing
large volumes of data from a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and
sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those relationships to
predict behaviors.
dashboards - CORRECT ANSWER - reports of process measures to help
leaders follow progress to assist with strategic planning
descriptive statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - set of statistical techniques used
to describe data, such as means, frequency distributions, and standard
deviations; describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
, inferential statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - set of statistical techniques that
allows researchers to make generalizations about a population's characteristics
on the basis of a sample's characteristics,
predictive modeling - CORRECT ANSWER - process used to identify patterns
that can be used to predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the
observed data. Uses historical data in order to predict what is likely to happen in
the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA) - CORRECT ANSWER - advanced
certification covers data management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems - CORRECT ANSWER - collects and stores
medical, nursing, clinical ancillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and
therapy department information related to patient care
document management system - CORRECT ANSWER - electronic method of
capturing and managing documents.
target sheets - CORRECT ANSWER - pages that contain only a barcode that
tells the scanner and, ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that
follow
file server - CORRECT ANSWER - large PC or other computer that is
extremely powerful and has a large amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
abstracting and quality control workstation - CORRECT ANSWER -
workstation is used for indexing and quality control
backscanning - CORRECT ANSWER - process of scanning past health
records into the DMS so there is an existing database of patient information
