Information Literacy and Health Information Management System Flashcards
Information Systems (IS)
integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data
Components of information systems
• computer hardware and software
telecommunications
• databases and data warehouses
• human resources
• procedures
Operations support system
To facilitate business transaction, control production, support internal as well as external communication and update organization central database
Transaction Processing System (TPS)
ex. sales order, sales return, cash receipts, credit sales; credit slips, material accounting, inventory management
Process Control System
Certain decisions are made by a computer system without any manual intervention.
Enterprise Collaboration System
Enables collaborative effort by improving communication and sharing of data
Management Support System
Facilitates an efficient decision making process for managers
Computer literacy
- understand how different applications work together
- ability to operate a computer
Information literacy
The ability to recognize your information needs and then access, evaluate, organize, and use information from a variety of sources
Information System literacy
The knowledge of how information systems work.
Information Literate: Acknowledge what information you need
Recognize
Population-based data sources
• Censuses
• Civil registration
• Population surveys
Institution-based data sources
• Individual records
• Service records
• Resource records
Boolean Search: AND
- Narrows the search by combining terms
- inclusionary and thus limits your search.
Boolean Search: OR
- Broaden; Inclusion
- offers flexible inclusion, and typically broadens your search results
