Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
This electronic system allows healthcare providers to document, store, and access patients' health information.
What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?
This data quality characteristic means that information is correct and free from errors.
What is accuracy?
This term describes the ability of different healthcare information systems to exchange information and use the information they receive.
What is interoperability?
This federal law established national standards for protecting protected health information and includes the Privacy Rule and Security Rule.
What is HIPAA?
This technology connects physical devices, sensors, and monitors to collect and exchange data over the internet.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
This stage of EHR implementation involves defining organizational goals, assessing needs, and obtaining leadership support.
What is strategic planning?
This tool defines data elements, including their names, meanings, formats, and permitted values, helping an organization maintain consistent terminology.
What is a data dictionary?
This type of health information exchange involves securely sending patient information directly between known healthcare providers, such as a primary care physician and a specialist.
What is directed exchange?
This term describes the obligation to protect patient information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
What is confidentiality?
A patient uses a connected glucose monitor that sends blood glucose readings to their healthcare provider without requiring an office visit. What healthcare application does this demonstrate?
What is remote patient monitoring?
This technology allows healthcare organizations to access computing resources and store data over the internet rather than relying entirely on local infrastructure.
What is cloud computing?
This concept refers to the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data throughout its lifecycle.
What is data integrity?
This standards organization develops healthcare messaging standards, including HL7 Version 2 and FHIR.
What is HL7 International?
Under the HIPAA Security Rule, these three categories of safeguards help protect electronic protected health information.
What are administrative, physical, and technical safeguards?
This technology stores records in linked blocks across a distributed network, making unauthorized alteration of recorded transactions difficult to conceal.
What is blockchain?
This EHR function allows healthcare providers to enter medication, laboratory, and other clinical orders electronically.
What is Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)?
A hospital discovers that the same patient is listed under two different medical record numbers. This problem illustrates which data quality concern?
What is data duplication or inconsistency?
A patient visits an emergency department in a different city. The treating physician can access relevant records from the patient's usual hospital. What healthcare capability makes this possible?
What is Health Information Exchange (HIE)?
A hospital employee looks up a neighbor's medical record out of curiosity, even though the employee is not involved in the neighbor's care. What type of security violation has occurred?
What is unauthorized access to protected health information (PHI)?
This technology uses computer systems to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as analyzing medical images and identifying patterns in patient data.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
A hospital implements an EHR without involving nurses and physicians in the design process. Staff members struggle to use the new system because it does not fit their workflows. What important implementation principle did the hospital overlook?
What is involving end users and aligning the EHR with clinical workflows?
A healthcare organization establishes policies, assigns responsibilities, and monitors how information is collected, maintained, accessed, and used. What is this organization implementing?
What is data governance?
A hospital can transmit patient information to another system, but the receiving system cannot correctly interpret the meaning of the information. Which level of interoperability is missing?
What is semantic interoperability?
A healthcare employee receives an email that appears to come from the organization's IT department and asks for login credentials through a suspicious link. What type of cybersecurity threat does this represent?
What is phishing?
This technology analyzes large amounts of healthcare data to identify patterns, predict patient outcomes, and help providers make informed clinical decisions.
What is predictive analytics?