Chapter 6

Question 1

HIPPA - The Health Insurance Portability And accountability act

Answer 1

Requires most claims for healthcare services to be submitted via electronic means

Question 2

Why is 3D printing promising in the Medical field?

Answer 2

It shows promise because the blueprints can be customized to the patients situations through the use of patient-specific data to create a physical solution.

Question 3

Interoperability

Answer 3

is a significant challenge within the health IT field as some proprietary systems do not communicate easily with other proprietary systems and interfaces are necessary.

Question 4

Wearable Technology

Answer 4

allows for inexpensive, continuous physiological monitoring with little manual intervention by the patient or healthcare provider.

Question 5

Billing Process

Answer 5

refers to the method of submitting and following up with claims made to government payers, insurance companies, and patients for services rendered to a patient

Question 6

Electronic Materials Management

Answer 6

refers to Tracking and managing of inventory of medical supplies, drugs, and other materials

Question 7

An Electronic Health Record

Answer 7

refers to an individual patient health record stored in a computer database for easy access by physicians and other healthcare workers regardless of the setting.

Question 8

A clinical decision support system

Answer 8

best describes the variety of technologies that provide healthcare practitioners with diagnostic and treatment recommendations

Question 9

3D Printing

Answer 9

is one of the most promising technologies in healthcare.

Question 10

Robots

Answer 10

are used to make surgical procedures more precise

Question 11

Telemedicine

Answer 11

helps provide greater access for patients whose access to health care may be limited

Question 12

Health Insurance Systems

Answer 12

provide payment for new innovations so we can have a continuous flow of technology

Question 13

An example of Health Technology

Answer 13

is computer software

Question 14

Telemedicine Means

Answer 14

the use of electronic communications and information technologies to provide or support clinical care at a distance. The connection allows the healthcare provider to diagnose, treat, and monitor patients remotely.

Question 15

Interventional X-rays

Answer 15

are pieces of high-resolution fixed X-ray equipment that allow physicians to diagnose and perform surgery in a minimally invasive manner.

Question 16

3-D printing is being used

Answer 16

to create prosthetics, orthopedic implants, and lab equipment such as pipettes and minifuge rotors

Question 17

How is Health IT improving healthcare?

Answer 17

Improving the delivery of patient care and producing optimum outcomes are goals of many healthcare providers and systems. One of the most important ways in which these goals can be accomplished is through use of Health IT.

Question 18

HITECH Act

Answer 18

The HITECH Act introduced the meaningful use program. This program makes physicians and hospitals eligible to receive incentive payments if they prove their use of the EHR systems meet certain criteria.

Question 19

MPI

Answer 19

Electronic systems containing analytical processes can minimize but not completely address the problem of duplicate entries in the MPI.

Question 20

EHR’s Benefit

Answer 20

One significant benefit of EHRs is that information contained within them can be shared with other healthcare providers across different healthcare organizations.

Question 21

Patient Registration

Answer 21

Patient registration creates a detailed reference about a patient’s body and can be used to pinpoint the location of a tumor.