Informatics in the Healthcare Professions
Professional use of Electronic Resources
Informatics Planning and Implementation
Nursing Education
Consumer Education and Informatics
100
The broad definition which refers to the overall processing and organization of information in a computer.
What is Information Technology.
100
An entity or learning event that can stand alone without losing meaning, usually addressing only one or two learning objectives
What is a learning object
100
This process, that was mandated in the 1970's, requires an investment plan to be written by hospitals (showing goals, numbers, and steps towards achievement) before investing in new technology. This plan was spurred into action because of Medicare and Medicaid Funds, was later renounced by President Reagan, but is still largely impactful and meaningful today.
What is Strategic Planning.
100
Eliminate long commutes and broaden opportunities to many people. The institutions of higher learning are able to meet people demands at the same time cut costs by paying the faculty to teach at one site rather than multiple sites.
What is Distance Learning?
100
A person who can work comfortably in the world of technology and provide education, design, and advocate for the use of technology in the healthcare field
What is an informatics specialist as an educator (ISE), designer (ISD), and advocate (ISA)
200
A set of figures, numbers, recordings, and facts that are grouped together and have been examined and analyzed.
What is information.
200
A free web site for healthcare professionals and consumers assisting users with accessing medical and healthcare information, products, resources, services, and practitioners on the World Wide Web
What is Healthlink
200
Provide examples of different types of routine technical maintenance.
What is (1) Debugging and specific problem solving (2) Backing up hardware to prevent crashing - including monitors, cables, computers, and printers. (3) Backing up files and checking the system to ensure sufficient room for files. (4) Creating and installing system upgrades, and continually updating the disaster recovery plan.
200
A set of interactive telecommunication technologies that allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously.
What is Video Teleconferencing?
200
An approach to minimizing miscommunication errors due to a patients use of medical Jargon and to improve machine processing during communication between care providers and patients by using a unified medical language system.
What is the development of of Consumer Health Vocabularies (CHV)
300
This important initiative for Informatics involves six competencies which educate nurses on specific knowledge and skills in order to improve the safety and quality of care delivered within the healthcare system.
What is the QSEN Project.
300
Using electronic communication to distribute manuscripts for peer review and obtain the completed reviews
What is shortens the timeframe between writing and publishing
300
A senior informatics executive who bridges nursing and information technology. They have a high knowledge in computers, information and nursing sciences to lead strategically and operationally.
What is a Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
300
A web site that allows anyone to contribute and edit content. In nursing education, it is used as a tool to disseminate information and foster collaboration, share resources, and assist research.
What is wiki?
300
An initiative developed to promote and advocate for the use of informatics to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery by engaging consumers, improving population health, transforming care delivery, and aligning initiatives.
What is the e-health initiative (eHI)
400
The four different areas of practice, administration, education, and research combine to make up the key components of this important sub-system.
What is Nursing Informatics.
400
Creating interest in a company's goods and services
What is Marketing
400
A role in informatics planning that defines the scope and results of a project, that identifies tasks and when they must occur, defines who is responsible for each task, establishes timelines and processes, and communicates about the project status
What is the Role of the project manager
400
A form of multimedia is making its way into nursing educations. It offers students opportunities to perform skills on a real person, but without risk the learner or the patient. It has been used by medical students and surgerons on variety of procedures.
What is Virtual Reality?
400
The 3 benefits to personal health records
What is 1.) An electronic personal record of health that is private 2.) Can be shared with other people such as family or other health care providers 3.) Managed by the consumer not the provider
500
Errors in this area can interfere with safety, therefore barcodes and radio frequency identification have been developed to prevent harm.
What is Patient Identification.
500
1. Negative impact on an organization's information system performance 2. Potential for harming employers' reputation 3. Reduction in employee productivity
What is potential risks for employers and employees by using social network Web sites via an organization's portal to the Internet
500
The steps a strategic IT planner takes while planning.
What is Gather information, analyze data, identify potential solutions, select a course of action, implement the chosen solution, and provide and elicit ongoing evaluation and feedback.
500
A portable and advanced life-size mannequins that provide realistic and physiologic responses to different clinical scenarios.
What is Simulation Technology?
500
List the 6 guiding principles that the e-health tool kit and initiative blueprint designed to encourage consumers to be engaged and create a relationship between the consumer and the health provider through the use of technology.
What is Consumer engagement in healthcare, consumer control and access of personal health information, consumer access to electronic health information tools and services, consumer privacy, consumer trust, and consumer participation and transparency.
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