Raw facts and figures
What is data?
Describes the use of health information technology (HIT) that leads to improvements in healthcare and furthers the goal of information exchange among health care professionals
What is Health Information Exchange?
Collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical ancillary areas, and therapy department information related to patient care
What is a clinical information system (CIS)?
The process of recording healthcare-related data in a health record system or clinical database
What is data capture?
The right of the individual to limit access of information about themselves
What is privacy?
An automated system that uses computer hardware and software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data.
What is an information system?
The ability to transmit prescriptions electronically
What is E-prescribing?
An electronic method of capturing and managing documents
What is document management system (DMS)?
Science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about the information
What is data analytics?
The expectation that information shared with a healthcare provider will be used only for its intended purpose
What is confidentiality?
Data that has been manipulated into something meaningful
What is information?
Aggregating and reporting of data from coded fields within the electron health record (EHR)
What is data mining?
Automatically collects and stores patient data from various information systems used in healthcare
What are patient monitoring systems?
Data elements that allow for free text entry, which means that the user can type in any data that they choose
What is unstructured data?
An unauthorized use, access or disclosure of private health information that compromises the privacy and security of the information
What is a breach?
Electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one healthcare organization
What is an Electron Health Record?
The process of extracting information from a document to create a brief summary of a patients illness, treatment, and outcome
What is abstracting?
The use of robotics to perform surgery on a patient in a different location
What is telesurgery?
The extent to which healthcare data are complete, accurate, consistent, and timely
What is data integrity?
The protective measures and tools for safeguarding information in information systems
What is security?
Healthcare services based on clinical methods that have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies.
What is evidence-based medicine?
The process of disclosing patient-identifiable information from the health record to another party. It requires a signed form by the patient allowing the release of their information
What is release of information (ROM)?
Information entered in a structured or pre-determined field within a record, file or note. It is built with a universal set of protocols
What is structured data?
The process of checking internal consistency and duplication as well as identifying outliers and missing data
What is data cleansing?
The illegal access and use of a patient's personally identifiable information to obtain medical treatment, services or goods
What is medical identity theft?