MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Question 1

What is medical informatics?

Answer 1

study and application of methods to improve the management of patient data, clinical knowledge, population data, and other information relevant to patient care and community health

Question 2

It refers to all health info coming from the patient

Answer 2

Patient data

Question 3

These are lab tests in terms of diagnostic, therapeutic, procedures performed, etc

Answer 3

Clinical Knowledge

Question 4

Define SBAR

Answer 4

S - situation of the patient
B - background of the px
A - assessment
R - recommendation

Question 5

It is a process for carrying out a complex task broken down into simple decision and action steps

Answer 5

ALGORITHM

Question 6

It is the use of medical informatics methods to facilitate research in molecular biology

Answer 6

BIOINFORMATICS

Question 7

A limited list of preferred terms from which the user can draw one or more express a concept such as patient data, disease, or drug name

Answer 7

CLINICAL CODING SYSTEM

Question 8

Any information system concerned with the capture, processing, or communication of patient data

Answer 8

CLINICAL DATA SYSTEM

Question 9

Any mechanical, paper or electronic aid that collects or processes data from an individual patient to generate output that aids clinical decisions during the doctor-patient encounter

Answer 9

CLINICAL DECISION TOOL