Health Informatics
Evolution of Health Informatics
Terms
HIE and IDN
ACOs
100
The science of information processing.
What is Health informatics.
100
HITECH
What is Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
100
A well-defined sequence of activities undertaken in order to achieve a work outcome.
What is workflow.
100
The organizations that provide the infrastructure and services allowing for the movement of health-related data between nonaffiliated stakeholders based on nationally established standards.
What are Health Information Exchanges.
100
The massive restructuring of healthcare in the United States is the result of
What is the Affordable Care Act.
200
You do not have to be tech savvy to work in this field.
What is health informatics.
200
These centers were established in each state to support the implementation of EHRs and HITECH requirements
What are Regional extension centers or RECs
200
The application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects efficiently and effectively.
What is project management.
200
The objective of this initiative is to get the "right information to the right place at the right time."
What is Meaningful Use.
200
This model of care is mostly given on an episodic basis; patients only see doctors when they are sick.
What is a fee-for-service model.
300
Workflow and change management, programming, training, database management, data mining and data analysis are the particular skills needed for this field
What is health informatics
300
These records include a patient's medical history, diagnostic test results, images and clinical notes and are stored digitally in a database.
What are e-Records
300
The ability of two or more systems to exchange data and to use the information once it has been received.
What is interoperability.
300
A network of hospitals and physicians organized under a single parent company for the purpose of providing care across the full continuum of a patient population's needs.
What is an Integrated Delivery Network or IDN.
300
Providers will be paid for achieving a set of quality-based metrics and patient outcomes for the total patient population. In essence, if providers achieve or exceed their quality goals, they will share in the cost savings. If they do not meet the goals, they may be penalized or will have to meet the costs above an agreed amount. What is this called?
What is pay-for-performance or shared savings.
400
The primary concern of health informatics
What is the clinical setting and patient care
400
The three parts of the health informatics curriculum developed by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIM)
What are: 1. Information systems 2. Informatics principles 3. Information technology
400
The search for and extraction of large amounts of data for the purpose of turning it into useful information through data analysis.
What is data mining.
400
Their role is to help users learn how to use health information technology and to assist them when they encounter problems in using the technologies.
What is technical support.
400
A secure website where a patient can access information from a provider's EHR, such as diagnoses, lab results, discharge summaries, immunizations and imaging study reports.
What is a patient portal.
500
Prior computer or business systems used to accomplish the tasks now accomplished by a new system
What are Legacy systems
500
The practice of acquiring, analyzing and protecting medical information to provide quality patient care and, until recently, in a hard-copy format.
What is Health Information Management
500
The process of systematically applying statistical and/or other techniques to describe and illustrate, condense and recap, and evaluate data.
What is Data analysis.
500
A Primary Care Practice decides to switch from paper-based patient records to an electronic health record (EHR). After the implementation and testing of the new system, the practice decides to have everyone start using all parts of the system at one time. What is this approach called?
What is the "Big Bang" approach.
500
The ultimate goal of this initiative is to empower patients to be healthier and to be proactive in their healthcare.
What is Meaningful Use.
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