Key Terms
The use of various forms of technology to improve the quality of health services to individuals and communities.
What is health information technology (HIT)?
Eliminates lost orders and illegible handwriting, generates related orders automatically, monitors for duplicate or contradictory orders, and reduces time to fill orders.
What is computerized provider order entry (CPOE)?
The use of telecommunications technology to assess, diagnose, and, in some cases, treat persons who are at a distance from the health care provider.
What is telehealth?
Is the purpose of the website clear?
Is the information factual or opinion?
Is the information primary or secondary in origin?
Who is sponsoring the site?
What is objectivity?
PHI stands for:
What is personal health information?
Technologies that allow real-time data retrieval, documentation, and decision support at the bedside or wherever direct care is provided.
What is point-of-care technology?
Scheduling systems, billing and claims management, insurance eligibility, and inventory management.
What is administrative processes?
This type of searching on the Internet allows you to set specific limits on your searches such as searching for only .edu, .gov, or .org domains or by limiting by language, file type, or date.
What is advanced searching?
Look for documentation and referencing
Compare information on the website with other sources
What is accuracy?
The act of limiting disclosure of private matters.
What is confidentiality?
EHR systems have the ability to share and transfer patient data seamlessly across health care systems and settings in a standardized manner that protects the reliability, confidentiality, privacy, and security of the information.
What is EHR interoperability?
Electronic reports of laboratory results and radiology procedures with automated display of previous results; electronic consultation reports
What is results management?
Examples are social media, collaboration sites, interactive web sites, Internet bulletin boards, blogs.
What is Web 2.0?
Look for dates AND compare the last update with current literature
What is currency?
The means to control access and protect information from accidental or intentional disclosure to unauthorized persons and from alteration, destruction, and loss.
What is security?
A defined set of EHR capabilities and standards that EHR systems must meet to ensure that their full capacity is realized and for the users to qualify for financial incentives from Medicare.
What is meaningful use?
Computer-based patient education and home monitoring where applicable.
What is patient support?
This organization defines information literacy (IL) as the "ability to identify and information need; find and evaluate information; assess information; use information ethically; and document"
What is the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)?
Is the site well designed, stable, and easy to use?
Content should be error-free and readable by the intended audience
What is usability?
The right of an individual to keep information about himself or herself from being disclosed to anyone else.
What is privacy?
Software programs that process data to produce or recommend decisions by linking with an electronic knowledge base controlled by established rules for combining data elements; the knowledge base and rules mimic the knowledge and reasoning an expert health professional would apply to data and information. (automatic reminders about preventive practices, drug alerts for dosing and interactions, electronic resources for data interpretation)
What is decision support tools?
Electronic communication between health care team members and other care partners, such as radiology and laboratory personnel, and connectivity to the patient record across multiple care settings.
What is electronic communication and connectivity?
Standards published by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) which are based on the nursing profession's fundamental values of evidence-based practice and translational research.
What is the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing (ILCSN)?
Who is responsible for the site?
Author of the site
Credentials, expertise, experience
Contact information
URL type suggests reputable affiliation
What is authority?
HIPAA stands for:
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?