Systems
If an information system is down, what are the parts of the communication plan?
Who needs to know, who will communicate, what systems are impacted, and what details are needed
What are some patient safety features included in an EHR?
Medication alerts, safety alerts, disease process order sets
Why do healthcare organizations use data mining?
Why do organizations back up data entered into EHR?
To recover the system and its data in the event of a failure
What is the 'digital divide'?
An API, or application programming interface, helps with ___?
Transferring or sharing data between systems
Point of care clinical support systems (CDS) rely on which 2: algorithms, WiFi, protocols, real-time links, user credentials, or mobile devices?
Algorithms and protocols
What happens in a ransomware cyber attack?
An organization loses access to its computers and patient information until they pay up
You're considering a new EHR--why might you choose a commercial (vendor) system over creating a home-grown system?
Commercial systems are more robust in function and features
What is the "Internet of things"?
A digital device that collects, sends, and stores data without human intervention
In application (app) testing, what kind of test gets users to try it out and give feedback to make it better?
Formative test
If a CDS (clinical decision system) sends a patient a letter about an overdue mammogram, is that an alerting system, reminder system, or personal health system?
A reminder system
Cybersecurity steps you can take to secure cloud storage data include (4):
Data encryption, user authentication, secure protocols, two-way authenticators
In a continuity of care record (CCR), why should the information you want to exchange between records be described in an exact format?
To promote syntactically interoperable records.
In healthcare contracting, there are two types of contractually binding statements a vendor can make.
RFP material and the license agreement
In usability testing for an information system, how many users do you need to find 80% of the issues? 5, 8, 12, or 20?
5
When using a CDS, or clinical decision system, regarding drug dosages, would that be a structure, process, or outcome?
Process
What are data characteristics in big data for healthcare?
Velocity, volume, variety
What's it called when you review security policies & procedures and identify opportunities for cyber attacks or data breaches?
Risk assessment
Computers can read two kinds of code. Are they source code, executable code, high-level code, C++ code, or interpretive code (pick 2)
Executable code and Interpretive code
What is an ancillary service application or "niche" application?
A patient care system specific to a particular care need, like radiology.
What is apomediation?
Directing patients to high-quality information on the internet
A newer tool for data visualization is which of these: Pie Chart, Data Map, Bar Graph, UpSet Plot?
UpSet Plot
If you embed a CDS in an EHR, what have you changed?
Structure
In a chaotic system, the butterfly effect posits that a minor change in one part of the system can have a big effect elsewhere. This can also be called __.
reiteriative feedback loop