EDAC Exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
ACA - Correct answer-Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Legislation
passed in 2010 to increase access to healthcare for all Americans and expand
Medicaid coverage
AACN - Correct answer-American Association of College of Nursing
AAMC - Correct answer-Association of Medical College
ACHE - Correct answer-American College of Healthcare Executives
ASHE - Correct answer-American Society for Healthcare Engineering
accountable vare - Correct answer-an accountable care organization is a group of
healthcare providers that give coordinated care and chronic disease management to
improve quality of care
acuity - Correct answer-the intensity of care necessary to meet the needs of a
patient
©COPYRIGHT 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,adverse drug events (ADE) - Correct answer-generally unwanted, negative
consequences associated with the use of given medications
asclepieion - Correct answer-Greek god and healing associated with patient rooms
being oriented to the sun
ambulatory care - Correct answer-constitutes diagnostic and therapeutic services
and treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient. In a restricted sense,
ambulatory care refers to care rendered to patients who come to physicians' offices,
outpatient departments of hospitals, and health centers to receive care
big data - Correct answer-an evolving term that describes any voluminous about of
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined
for information
board of trustees - Correct answer-the governing body of an organization or
corporation that is generally elected by stakeholders to make decisions and policies
bundled payments - Correct answer-bundling payment for services that patients
receive across a single episode of care, such as a knee replacement, designed to
improve the quality of care and lower costs
©COPYRIGHT 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
, business planning - Correct answer-determining the strategies, goals, and
objectives of the business by translating the current and strategic state in terms of
costs and revenues with regard to investments
CAUTI - Correct answer-Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
CDC - Correct answer-Centers for Disease Control and Precention
C. difficile - Correct answer-a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria
CLABSI - Correct answer-Central line-associated blood infections
cloud computing - Correct answer-recently evolved computing terminology or
metaphor based on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud
computing involves deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that
allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources
CMS - Correct answer-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
commissioning - Correct answer-the process of outfitting the building with the
equipment and furniture not included as built-in features during construction - a
quality oriented process for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the
performance of facilities, systems, and assemblies meets defined objectives and
criteria
DOE - Correct answer-Department of Energy
©COPYRIGHT 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 3
Graded A+
ACA - Correct answer-Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Legislation
passed in 2010 to increase access to healthcare for all Americans and expand
Medicaid coverage
AACN - Correct answer-American Association of College of Nursing
AAMC - Correct answer-Association of Medical College
ACHE - Correct answer-American College of Healthcare Executives
ASHE - Correct answer-American Society for Healthcare Engineering
accountable vare - Correct answer-an accountable care organization is a group of
healthcare providers that give coordinated care and chronic disease management to
improve quality of care
acuity - Correct answer-the intensity of care necessary to meet the needs of a
patient
©COPYRIGHT 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,adverse drug events (ADE) - Correct answer-generally unwanted, negative
consequences associated with the use of given medications
asclepieion - Correct answer-Greek god and healing associated with patient rooms
being oriented to the sun
ambulatory care - Correct answer-constitutes diagnostic and therapeutic services
and treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient. In a restricted sense,
ambulatory care refers to care rendered to patients who come to physicians' offices,
outpatient departments of hospitals, and health centers to receive care
big data - Correct answer-an evolving term that describes any voluminous about of
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined
for information
board of trustees - Correct answer-the governing body of an organization or
corporation that is generally elected by stakeholders to make decisions and policies
bundled payments - Correct answer-bundling payment for services that patients
receive across a single episode of care, such as a knee replacement, designed to
improve the quality of care and lower costs
©COPYRIGHT 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
, business planning - Correct answer-determining the strategies, goals, and
objectives of the business by translating the current and strategic state in terms of
costs and revenues with regard to investments
CAUTI - Correct answer-Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
CDC - Correct answer-Centers for Disease Control and Precention
C. difficile - Correct answer-a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria
CLABSI - Correct answer-Central line-associated blood infections
cloud computing - Correct answer-recently evolved computing terminology or
metaphor based on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud
computing involves deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that
allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources
CMS - Correct answer-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
commissioning - Correct answer-the process of outfitting the building with the
equipment and furniture not included as built-in features during construction - a
quality oriented process for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the
performance of facilities, systems, and assemblies meets defined objectives and
criteria
DOE - Correct answer-Department of Energy
©COPYRIGHT 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 3
