Data Management System Flashcards
raw health care facts, generally stored as characters, words, symbols, measurements, or statistics
Health Data
Ex: Blood pressure, diagnosis, medications taken, symptoms exhibited, family history, diet
Health Data
Knowledge obtained after data is processed and structured into a meaningful form
Health Information
Facts concerning people, objects, vents or other entities. Databases store this.
Data
Data presented in a form suitable for interpretation.
Information
Insights into appropriate actions based on interpreted data
Knowledge
the process of storing, protecting, and analyzing data pulled from diverse sources.
Healthcare data management
Managing the wealth of available healthcare data allows health systems to create holistic views of patients, personalize treatments, improve communication, and enhance health outcomes.
Healthcare data management
Data at rest
Volume
Terabytes to Exabytes of existing data to process
Volume
Data in motion
Velocity
Streaming data, requiring milliseconds to seconds to respond
Velocity
Data in many forms
Variety
Structure, unstructured, text, multimedia,..
Variety
Data in doubt
Veracity
Uncertainty due to data inconsistency & incompleteness, ambiguities, latency, deception, model approximations
Veracity
Any object about which an organization chooses to collect data
Entity
Smallest piece of data
Character
One piece of information about an entity
Field
Fields related to the same entity
Record
Collection of related records
File
Collection of files that are kept together
Database
A program used to build databases, populate them with data, and manipulate the data
DBMS
Messages sent to the database to access data
Queries
Purpose of queries
Display results
Manipulate data (adding, deleting, and updating)
Sort the order of the records
DBMSs are usually bundled with _____ generation module which can facilitate queries and produce predesigned reports
report
Use of databases may raise security and privacy issues
Security
A large database that supports management decision making.
Data warehouse
Contains data, or summaries of data, from millions of transactions over many years and/or from national or global transactions.
Data warehouse
A magnification or expansion of the amount, types, and level of detail of data that is collected and stored.
Big data
Involves high volumes of data compiled from traditional, ordinary business activities, as well as newer, nontraditional sources such as social media.
Big data
The process of selecting, exploring, and modeling large amounts of data to discover previously unknown relationships that can support decision making.
Data mining
______ searches through large amounts of data for meaningful patterns of information.
Data-mining software
Applications that respond to commands by composing tables to analyze different dimensions of multidimensional data
Online analytical processing
Examples of administrative data
Financial
Logistic
Quality Assessment
Primarily public and private insurance claims.
Financial data
Managed care plans, hospital discharge datasets, and revenue cycle management organizations.
Financial data