Terminology
SDLC
Health Information Systems
Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Source Systems
100

Data able to be processed by a computer 

What is structured data

100

The steps taken from an initial point of recognizing the need for a desired result, through the steps taken to ensure all components needed for the system to achieve the desired result are addressed

What is the systems development life cycle  (SDLC)

100

As part of an enterprise architecture, what supporting infrastructure is used to ensure there is a logical structure for managing all of the healthcare entity’s data 

What is Data governance framework

100

HIE is most often managed by an organization referred to as a

What is a health information organization (HIO)

100

Capture and supply the EHR and other broad health information systems with data. May include administrative and financial applications, ancillary/ clinical departmental applications, specialty clinical systems, and “smart” peripherals.

What are source systems

200

The ability to share health information with other health information systems 

What is interoperability

200

This part of the SDLC is to ensure all technology is available to support an information system

the cycle aspect of the systems development life cycle

200

The process in which individual data elements are represented in the computer by special code to be used in the comparisons, trending results, and supplying clinical reminders and alerts. 

What is Clinical decision support? Sometimes may contribute to unintended consequences for a patient

200

Identify some of these several key services that an HIO provides

What are 

Directory- patient information

Directory- record locator service (RLS)

Identitiy management (IdM)

Consent management

200

Identify the application system based on these examples:

  • Registration-admission; discharge transfer (R-ADT) systems (in hospitals)
  • practice management systems (PMS) (in physician offices)
  • master patient index (MPI)
  • patient financial systems (PFS)
  • revenue cycle management (RCM) systems
  • quality measurement slap, reporting, improvement systems (Quality)
  • health information management (HIM) systems
  • Human Resources, physician compensation, procurement, and many others

What are administrative and financial applications

300

Narrative information not able to be uniquely processed by a computer

What is unstructured data

300

A fundamental change in how medicine is practiced using health information systems 

What is a clinical transformation

300

EHRs support evidence-based medicine, which refers to 

In order for any system that makes recommendations (whether for CDS, documentation improvement, or quality improvement) to be trusted, it is necessary for the system to be evidence-based.

300

A group of federal agencies and non federal organizations that come together under a common mission and purpose to improve patient care, streamline disability benefit claims, and improve public health reporting through secure, trusted, and interoperable health information exchange.

What is the eHealth Exchange

300

Serve primarily to manage the department in which they exist, while at the same time providing key clinical data for the EHR.

What are Clinical Department Applications, AKA ancillary systems
400

Online transaction processing is conducted in ...? 


A clinical data repository is a database structure that supports a vast number of data entries and retrievals (such as transactions on data) as distinguished from a clinical data warehouse that performs analytics on data in its database.

400

In conducting an EHR vendor selection project, the first step should be to _____. 

Identifying needs, which is the first step in the systems development life cycle, ensures that goals for the EHR are fully articulated in order to specify requirements and seek vendors.


400

The role of a scribe with respect to EHR documentation is to

Document structured data into the EHR at the point-of-care

400

What are the two ways to connect using the eHealth exchange

What are 

1. Direct Project - direct exchange for pushing health information

2. CONNECT - open source software that implements health exchange specifications

400

A continuous feed of data such as a fetal monitoring strip or blood sugar level.

What are "smart" peripherals, AKA automated medical devices

500

A term that refers to a statistical process of data to reveal new information is

Analytics is a process that takes a lot of data (“big data”) and processes it in a way that produces information not otherwise able to be known. A data model may support the ability to collect the data consistently and improve the quality of the resultant information. Analytics is compared to research, that is a more formal process of sampling and controlling for outliers, which are permitted and built into the analytics functionality.

500

At what stage are most hospital EHR systems today? 

Most hospitals would at least say they were in an adoption status today, especially since most are more than just a few months from implementation, which is the definition of the use stage. Many hospitals, however, have not fully reached the point where they are ready for optimization. 
500

As the meaningful use (MU) incentive program for using EHR is phased out, what is taking its place? 

Promoting Interoperability is part of CMS’ Quality Payment Program, in which providers must use an EHR for quality measure reporting.

500

When is two-factor authentication required by law? 

While two-factor authentication is always a good practice, and some healthcare organizations and health information exchange organizations require its use by policy, it is only required by law for e-prescribing narcotics.

500

When a healthcare entity acquires an information system and manages it locally, the system is referred to as a(n) _____.

Client/server system- an application service provider or software as a service is a vendor-supported system; in contrast to a client/server system where the user takes full responsibility for its management. 

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