QUIZ 2: IMPORTANT TERMINOLOGIES , THE COMPUTER & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM APPLICABLE IN NURSING PRACTICE Flashcards
Mechanisms for coding integrative health interviews by clinician for administrative billing and insurance claims.
Includes complementary and alternative medicine interventions and codes that map all NIC, CCC and Omaha System Interventions
ABC CODES
Universal language for perioperative nursing practice and education, standardize documentation of perioperative data in all perioperative settings.
Diagnosis based on NANDA,
Interventions based on NIC
Outcomes based on NOC
PERIOPERATIVE NURSING DATA SET (PNDS)
The primary motivation for standardized terms in nursing is the need for valid, comparable data that can be used across information system applications to support clinical decision-making and the evaluation of processes and outcomes of care.
ADVANCED TERMINOLOGY SYSTEM
Core clinical terminology containing over 357,000 healthcare concepts with unique meanings and formal logic-based definitions organized into multiple hierarchies
SNOMED CT
Is the collection of physical parts of a computer system. This includes the computer case, monitor, keyboard and mouse. It also includes all the parts inside the computer case. such as the hard disk drive, motherboard, video card, and many others. Computer hardware is what you can physically touch.
HARDWARE
a printed circuit board containing the principal components of a computer or other device, with connectors into which other circuit boards can be sorted.
MOTHERBOARD
is the primary component of a computer that processes instructions. It runs the operating system and applications, constantly receiving input from the user or active software programs. it processes the data and produces output, which may be stored by an application or displayed on the screen.
Central Processing Unit
RAM stands for _____ Your computer RAM is essentially short term memory where data is stored in the processor. The iant to be confused with long-term data that stored on your hard drive, which stays there even when your computer is turned off
random-access memory
A programmable processor specialized for rendering all images on the computer’s screen. A GPU performs parallel operations. Although it is used for 2D data as well as for zooming and panning the screen, a GPU is essential for smooth decoding and rendering of ID animations and video. The more sophisticated the GPU, the higher the resolution and the faster and smoother the motion. GPUs on scand alone cards include their own memory, while GPUs built into the chipset or CPU chip stare main memory with the CPU
Graphics Processing Unit
A hard disk drive, hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
HARD DRIVE
A ___ is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assembles to store data per piccadilly using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage
solid-state drive
A ____ is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load. The main purpose of a power supply is to convert electric current from a source to the correct voltage, current, and frequency to power the load
power supply
is a type of computer program that is designed to run a computer in hardware and application programs.
SOFTWARE
- A DOS, or disk operating system, is an operating system that runs from a disk drive. The term can also refer to a particular family of disk operating systems, most commonly MS-DOS, an acronym for Microsoft DOS.
Disk Operating System
(Antivirus, Backup, Disk compression, file manager)
Utility software
(Word, WordPad, Notepad)
Word Processing Software
allows users to maintain, store, access and save data in a central location, It also enables users to easily manage permissions and access to the database, creating a secure environment for the data.A database management system (DBMS) is system software for creating and managing databases.
Database Software (Microsoft Access, Oracle)
- is an open-source relational database management system.
MySQL
- is a cross-platform relational database application from Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface (GUl) and security features, allowing users to modify a database by dragging new elements into layouts, sereens, or forms.
FileMaker
computer programs designed to allow the user to present information in an engaging way such as with text, pictures, sound and video. PowerPoint is an example of a presentation software.
Presentation software (PowerPoint)
(Google chrome, Firefox, Safari)
Internet browser
the use of a computer to present and combine text, graphics, audio, and video with links and tools that let the user navigate, interact, create, and communicate.
MULTIMEDIA
Linux
b. Alternatives to Microsoft Word
LibreOffice Writer
WPS Office Writer
OPEN SOURCE AND FREE SOFTWARE
is the use of advanced analytic techniques against very large, diverse big data sets that include structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, from different sources, and in diffèrent sizes from terabytes to zettabytes.
Big data analytics
is a software program used for qualitative and mixed-methods research. Specifically, it is used for the analysis of unstructured text, audio, video, and image data, including (but not limited to) interviews, focus groups, surveys. social media, and journal articles
NVIVO
allow users to collect and review personally relevant information. The purpose commonly envisioned for these systems is that they provide users with actionable, data-driven self-insight to help them change their behavioral patterns for the better.
Personal informatics (PI) systems
Health Informatics (HI) professionals are tasked with the important responsibilities of obtaining, storing, organizing, managing and utilizing data for the purpose of improving the services provided by the healthcare industry especially for patient care. HI specialists with expertise in both healthcare and information technology (IT) are increasingly integral to the delivery and management of patient care in today’s complex healthcare industry
Professional Informatics
Education is a critical component of many nurses informatics functions and may directly affect the success or failure of any new or modified IT solution. Nurse’s role as an educator for consumers and the heightened emphasis on evidenced-based practice, nurses must be properly prepared to be a Health literate
Educational Informatics
A ____ is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digral interconnections to communicate with each other.
computer network
a computer program or device that provides a service to another computer program and its user, also known as the client. In a data center, the physical computer that a server program runs on is also frequently referred to as a server. That machine might be a dedicated server or it might be used for other purposes.
SERVER
A __ or modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio.
modulator demodulator
In networking, a peer is a node that provides the same functionality as another.
PEER
a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a chent-server model architecture using separate control and data connections between the client and the server.
FTP - THE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL
Area of expertise within the health professionals that focus specifically with human responses to life-threatening problems.
CRITICAL CARE
Special areaof fcritical care
Intensive care unit
Pediatric Intensive care unit
Emergency Care unit
Neonatal Intensive care unit
Recovery Room
Areas where patients require complex assessment, high-intensity medication, continuous therapy and interventions, unrelenting nursing attention and continuous watchfulness.
Critical care applications
Provide real-time resource utilization data and management of information and access critical care areas through the integration of the medical facilities in the ICU to an intelligent. computer system which is capable of processing all of these data.
CRITICAL CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM
provides a generalized method of attaching patient monitoring devices to a common interface.
The Medical Information Bus (MIB)
To communicate accurate, useful information to clinicians that will be used in decision-making.
To provide care to critically-ill patients that requires processing information collected from multiple sources.
To provide enough time to collect information and to communicate it to many health care providers.
To accurately monitor rapid changes in patient condition and the therapy provided in response to these changes
To evaluate outcome of intervention in order to measure cost effectiveness and describe quality of patient care
Goal of MIB
Covers a wide range of HCS that are provided for patients who are not admitted overnight to a hospital.
Outpatients clinics
Emergency room
Diagnostics and Imaging centers
Primary care centers
Community health centers
Mental health clinics
AMBULATORY CARE
Creating an information system at the population level is somewhat difficult due to a very large number of resources, data elements, diverse parameters, components, and information content.
Community health informatics
, clinical information system, patient monitoring electronic health record focused more on individual and single resource
Hospital information system
focused more on the majority of the population.
Community health information system
are used to collect quantitative information about items in a population to establish certain information from the obtained data.
Health statistical surveys
An experiment involves the collection of measurements or observations about populations that are controlled by the experimenter
COMPUTER BASED SURVEY SYSTEM
Captures the scenario or condition where emergency preparedness and immediate response is prioritized
Health Information System
Early informatics contributions to the emergency planning and response agenda have focused largely on surveillance of threat detection and a broader assessment of possible informatics contributions unveils that informatics can also contribute to increasing the efficiency in disaster response as well as providing a telepresence for remote medical caregivers (Weiner, E. E, & Trangenstein, P. A, 2007).
Emergency Preparedness and Response
is an umbrella term covering the systems and services related to the delivery of assistive products and services. Assistive products maintain or improve an individual’s functioning and independence, thereby promoting their well-being.
Assistive technology
Use of ___ technologies to provide health care services to clients and provide access to health-related information for both the clients and healthcare providers.
telecommunication
- 911 for emergency and health assistance, Teleconferencing to healthcare community, Call centers dealing with healthcare communication services
Telephone
- monitoring and diagnostic equipment
Advanced wireless applications
Computerized home health care system (CHHCS)
Computer Systems
- Regulation and authority on healthcare practice regarding telehealth.
Legal Issues
- there is a need to certify care providers who engaged in telehealth as a new medium of delivery
Safety Standards
- cost of infrastructure, installation, connection, training and maintenance is high
Budget Constraints
