Data Management System Flashcards
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raw health care facts, generally stored as characters, words, symbols, measurements, or statistics
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Health Data
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Ex: Blood pressure, diagnosis, medications taken, symptoms exhibited, family history, diet
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Health Data
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Knowledge obtained after data is processed and structured into a meaningful form
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Health Information
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Facts concerning people, objects, vents or other entities. Databases store this.
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Data
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Data presented in a form suitable for interpretation.
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Information
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Insights into appropriate actions based on interpreted data
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Knowledge
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the process of storing, protecting, and analyzing data pulled from diverse sources.
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Healthcare data management
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Managing the wealth of available healthcare data allows health systems to create holistic views of patients, personalize treatments, improve communication, and enhance health outcomes.
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Healthcare data management
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Data at rest
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Volume
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Terabytes to Exabytes of existing data to process
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Volume
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Data in motion
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Velocity
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Streaming data, requiring milliseconds to seconds to respond
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Velocity
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Data in many forms
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Variety
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Structure, unstructured, text, multimedia,..
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Variety
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Data in doubt
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Veracity
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Uncertainty due to data inconsistency & incompleteness, ambiguities, latency, deception, model approximations
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Veracity
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Any object about which an organization chooses to collect data
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Entity
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Smallest piece of data
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Character
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One piece of information about an entity
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Field
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Fields related to the same entity
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Record
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Collection of related records
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File
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Collection of files that are kept together
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Database
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A program used to build databases, populate them with data, and manipulate the data
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DBMS
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Messages sent to the database to access data
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Queries
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Purpose of queries
Display results
Manipulate data (adding, deleting, and updating)
Sort the order of the records
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DBMSs are usually bundled with _____ generation module which can facilitate queries and produce predesigned reports
report
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Use of databases may raise security and privacy issues
Security
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A large database that supports management decision making.
Data warehouse
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Contains data, or summaries of data, from millions of transactions over many years and/or from national or global transactions.
Data warehouse
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A magnification or expansion of the amount, types, and level of detail of data that is collected and stored.
Big data
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Involves high volumes of data compiled from traditional, ordinary business activities, as well as newer, nontraditional sources such as social media.
Big data
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The process of selecting, exploring, and modeling large amounts of data to discover previously unknown relationships that can support decision making.
Data mining
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______ searches through large amounts of data for meaningful patterns of information.
Data-mining software
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Applications that respond to commands by composing tables to analyze different dimensions of multidimensional data
Online analytical processing
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Examples of administrative data
Financial
Logistic
Quality Assessment
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Primarily public and private insurance claims.
Financial data
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Managed care plans, hospital discharge datasets, and revenue cycle management organizations.
Financial data
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Released by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Financial data
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* Care-team composition and staffing metrics
* Resource utilization
* Service metrics (e.g., inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department visits)
* Medication usage
Logistic data
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* Performance analyses of the service providers (i.e., reviews of clinician performance)
* Patient satisfaction surveys
* Hospital Quality Measures
Quality Assessment
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a patient's medical history and care.
Patient medical records
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to improve the ease and cost of using this information for quality measurement and reporting
Patient medical records
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self-reported information from patients about their healthcare experiences.
Patient surveys
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reports on the care, service, or treatment received and perceptions of the outcomes of care.
Patient surveys
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anecdotal information, include any type of information on health care quality that is gathered informally
comments from individual patients
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as private Web sites make it possible for health care consumers to share their personal experiences with health plans, hospitals, and, most prominently, physicians.
comments from individual patients
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detailed information about the status of each patient at set time intervals
Standardized clinical data
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the required information for nursing homes
Minimum Data Set (MDS)
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the data required by Medicare for certified home health agencies, store the data used in quality measures for these provider types
Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)
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Broadly defined, _____ represents the study of information contained within an individual’s genome and the biological
omics
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_____ has explored how omics data can be utilized to identify the treatment efficacy of various medications and medication dosages for a particular individual
Pharmacogenomics
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Physiological Characteristics
* Age
* Sex
* Height
* Weight (to some extent)
* ethnicity
Intrinsic data
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characteristics such as allergies:
* foods or medications
Intrinsic data
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characteristics derived from an individual’s environment and lifestyle, which may include:
* address
* marital status
* religion
* employment
type, location, salary
* insurance plan
Extrinsic data
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Commonly associated with fitness tracker
Wellness data
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MIMIC provides two forms of diagnosis information:
ICD Diagnosis, Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG)
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T/F: Diagnosis codes are billing codes
T
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Ordered by “priority”
ICD diagnosis codes
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provides alpha-numeric codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or disease
International Statistical Classification of Diseased and Related Health Problems (ICD)
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Classification based on clinical factors and utilization of resources
DRG
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2 types of DRG
All payers
Health care financing administration (now known as CMS DRGs)
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Patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats to the costs the hospital incurs
DRG
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Consist of classes of patients that are similar clinically and in terms of their consumption of hospital resources
DRG
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an expansion of the basic DRGs to be more representative of non-Medicare populations such as pediatric patients
All Patient DRGs (AP-DRGs)
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Two types of subclasses of AP-DRG
Severity of illness (SOI)
Risk of mortality (ROM)
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Have descriptors which correspond to a procedure or service.
Category I CPT code
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Range of code for category I CPT code
00100-99499
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Used for execution measurement
Category II CPT code
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T/F using category II CPT code is required
F. it is often optional
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Provisional codes for new and developing technology, procedures, and services
Category III CPT code
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Created for data collection and assessment of new services and procedures
Category III CPT code
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report special circumstances and to clarify or modify the description of the procedure
CPT Code
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How many characters consist the CPT code?
2
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a platform which helps to map the ingredients of the same drugs with different names
RxNorm
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Since there are many forms of the same drug, MIMIC provides _____ and _____
Generic Sequence Number (GSN) and the National Drug Code (NDC)
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The lab results contain both in-hospital laboratory measurements and out of hospital laboratory measurements from clinics which the patient visited
Microbiology and lab results
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Indicates whether the value is considered abnormal, using pre-define thresholds
flag
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The largest table in MIMIC and contains an immense array of information, reflective of anything put into a patient’s medical chart
Chart events
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Typographical errors in discharge summaries and misspelled names are examples of ______ data.
inaccurate
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Characteristic of data quality in healthcare: Data that are not available to the decision makers needing them are of no value to those decision makers.
Data Accessibility
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Characteristic of data quality in healthcare: All the data required for a particular use must be present and available to the user. Even relevant data may not be useful when they are incomplete.
Data Comprehensiveness
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Use of an abbreviation that has two different meanings is a good example of how lack of _____ can lead to problems.
consistency
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Characteristic of data quality in healthcare: A patient’s admitting diagnosis is often not the same as the diagnosis recorded on discharge.
Data Currency
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sometimes referred to as data atomicity
Data granulacity
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individual data elements are “_____” in the sense that they cannot be further subdivided
atomic
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_____ denotes how close to an actual size, weight, or other standard a particular measurement is.
Precision
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Data must be _____ to the purpose for which they are collected.
relevant
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is a critical dimension in the quality of many types of health care data.
Timeliness
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Advantages of administrative data
o Available electronically.
o Less expensive than obtaining medical record data.
o Available for an entire population of patients and across payers.
o Fairly uniform (and improving) coding systems and practices
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Disadvantages of administrative data
Limited clinical information.
Questionable accuracy for public reporting because the primary purpose is billing.
Completeness.
Timeliness
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Rich in clinical detail.
Viewed by providers as credible
Patient Medical Records
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Has a possibility of misleading results
Patient survey
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Captures types of information for which patients are the best source.
Patient surveys
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Easy for consumers to understand and relate to
Patient surveys
