General Informatics
Rules and more Rules
General Informatics 2
Imaging
Telepathology
100
Software that sits between two database systems
What is middleware?
100
The entity that forbids you to look up your own data in our electronic records
What is Emory?
100
Client-Server Architecture that requires the use of an Application Server.
What is a Thin Client system?
100
The smallest component of a digital image
What is a pixel?
100
Type of telepathology in which the image is completely obtained and then transferred to the telepathologist
What is static telepathology?
200
The flavor of informatics which is now board certifiable by the American Board of Medical Specialties http://www.pathologyinformatics.org
What is Clinical Informatics?
200
The name of the federal act which stiffened the penalties under HIPAA
What is HITECH? or What is ARRA? or What is the Omnibus rule?
200
The type of slient-server system that our clinical laboratory currently runs on.
What is a mainframe?
200
Type of image compression which results in irreversibly reduced image quality
What is lossy?
200
Definition of telepathology
What is - examination of an image - to produce a diagnosis AND report in which - the original slides are NOT within walking distance?
300
Coded identification type that does not require the scanner to be in the line of sight of the item.
What is an RFID tag?
300
Your action if a friend/colleague asks you to look up his/her medical information
What is "just say no"?
300
The time between a system failure and disaster recovery
What is a downtime?
300
Image file format which can be uncompressed
What is TIF? What is BMP?
300
Type of telepathology which looks at images in real time
What is dynamic telepathology?
400
A communication system between two databases
What is an interface?
400
Discrete lab data must be pulled as part of metrics that have to be reported to the federal government. Which of the following are NOT part of this requirement?
  1. Accountable Care Organization Quality Performance Standards
  2. Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures
  3. Meaningful Use Objectives (Core and Menu Set)
  4. The Joint Commission Critical Value Reporting Metrics
  5. Physician Quality Reporting System
What is #4 - The Joint Commission Critical Value Reporting Metrics
400
Most recent federal rule which has incorporated genetic information, strengthened numerous HIPAA provisions and stiffened (again) the penalties under HIPAA.
What is the HIPAA Omnibus rule (signed January 25, 2013)?
400
Type of CCD filter seen in most digital cameras?
What is mosaic?
400
Type of equipment required to perform telepathology WITHOUT a pathologist at the image acquisition site
What is robotics? Either a robotically controlled whole slide scanner or a robotic microscope will do.
500
Full name for HL7
What is Health Level 7?
500
The maximum fine per HIPAA violation.
What is $1,500,000?
500
The major difference between disaster recovery and business continuity
What is not having to restore a backup if one system fails?
500
Full name for CCD chip
What is Charge-Coupled Device?
500
Average size of an uncompressed whole slide image
What is gigabytes? Usually about 40 GB per image
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