Lesson 4

Question 1

to make sense of large amounts of data while ensuring the process are valid and secure

Answer 1

Health informatics

Question 2

She defined Health information Technology

Answer 2

Rouse (2016)

Question 3

the area of IT involving design, development, creation, use, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry. Automated and interoperable healthcare information systems are expected to improve nedical care, lower costs, increase efficiency, reduce error and improve patient satisfaction

Answer 3

Health Information Technology

Question 4

Central component of IT infrastructure

Answer 4

Electronic Health record (EHR)

Question 5

a person’s official, digital health record, and is shared among multiple healthcare providers and agencies

Answer 5

EHR

Question 6

key elements of IT infrastructure

Answer 6

Personal Health Record (PHR), Health information Exchange (HIE)

Question 7

a person’s self-maintained health record

Answer 7

Personal Health Record (PHR)

Question 8

a health data clearinghouse or a group of healthcare organizations that enter into an interoperability pact and agree to share data between their various health IT systems

Answer 8

Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Question 9

Two widely used types of health information technology

Answer 9

Picture Analysis Archives and Communicating systems (PACS) and Vendor Neutral Archives (NVA)

Question 10

Have been installed as a way to merge imaging data stored in separate departments’ image banks in a multi-facility healthcare system

Answer 10

Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA)

Question 11

DICOM

Answer 11

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

Question 12

a composition of individuals, systems and processes that want to share, exchange, and access all forms of health information, including discrete narrative and multimedia

Answer 12

Health interoperability system

Question 13

they defined health interoperability ecosystem as a composition of individuals, systems and processes that want to share, exchange, and access all forms of health information, including discrete narrative and multimedia

Answer 13

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (2017)

Question 14

it is changing the landscape of the healthcare system and informatics

Answer 14

cloud-based applications

Question 15

Advantages of Cloud Technology

Answer 15

Integrated and efficient patient care, Better management of data

Question 16

offers a single access point for patient information

Answer 16

Cloud technology

Question 17

Disadvantages of Cloud Technology

Answer 17

Potential Risks to potential information and Cloud set-up seems cumbersome

Question 17

Disadvantages of Cloud Technology

Answer 17

Potential Risks to potential information and Cloud set-up seems cumbersome

Question 18

Health informatics had been loosely practiced in the Philippines as early as:

Answer 18

1980s

Question 19

CHITS

Answer 19

Community Health Tracking Information System

Question 20

CHITS

Answer 20

Community Health Tracking Information System

Question 21

GPL

Answer 21

general public license

Question 21

GPL

Answer 21

general public license

Question 22

it is an electronic medical record developed through the collaboration of the information and communication technology community and health workers, primarily designed for use in Philippine health centers in disadvantaged areas

Answer 22

CHITS

Question 23

its implementation has resulted to heightened efficiency among health workers, since there are more time can be spent on providing patient care (DOST, 2012)

Answer 23

CHITS

Question 24

seen as more novelty rather than a profession

Answer 24

Health informatics

Question 25

He said that the large initial expenditure for a health information system remains another barrier to the integration of IT in Philippine healthcare

Answer 25

Marcelo, (2012)