Quiz 4

Question 1

What is digital health?

Answer 1

intersection of healthcare + technology

Question 2

What is digital medicine?

Answer 2

using tools to measure/facilitate human health

Question 3

What are digital therapeutics?

Answer 3

software that delivers therapeutic intervention to prevent, manage, or treat disease

Question 4

What aspects of digital health are evidence-based?

Answer 4

digital medicine and digital therapeutics

Question 5

What are the opportunities with digital health?

Answer 5

1. combine remote monitoring, telehealth, digital therapeutics
2. more frequent monitoring and on-demand consultation
3. new ways to approach/manage disease
4. can track population process
5. real-world evidence

Question 6

What are limitations to digital health?

Answer 6

1. out of date, frequent updates and changes
2. no interoperalibilty of data

Question 7

What are risks to digital health?

Answer 7

1. lack of regulation
2. security and malware threats
3. information may be unreliable
4. those who do not want to/can’t access technology due to age, socioeconomic status

Question 8

What is pharmacy role in digital medicine?

Answer 8

procide value based care; select medication + digital theraputic

Question 9

What is a ADR?

Answer 9

unexpected, unintended, undesired, or excessive response to medication despite appropriate use

Question 10

What is a ADE?

Answer 10

injury from a medication (appropriate/inappropriate use)

Question 11

What is a serious adverse event?

Answer 11

death, life-threatening, caused or prolonged hospitalization, persistent disability, or required intervention to prevent these outcomes

Question 12

What is a medication error?

Answer 12

any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm

Question 13

What is a near miss?

Answer 13

event that could have had adverse consequences but did not did result in outcome

Question 14

What is a latent error?

Answer 14

failures of organization that allow inevitable error or harm to occur; “accident waiting to happen”

Question 15

What are type of active error?

Answer 15

Slip
Mistake

Question 16

What are the common causes of a slip?

Answer 16

Protocols
Devices
Environment

Question 17

What do the most effective interventions do to prevent error?

Answer 17

Design out hazards
Rely on the system

Question 18

What is just culture?

Answer 18

hold healthcare institutions accountable for their systems and individuals accountable for choices within the system

Question 19

What is human error?

Answer 19

inevitable, unpredictable, and unintentional failure

Question 20

What is at-risk behavior?

Answer 20

does not see risk or believes the risk is insignificant/justified; mistakenly believes choice is safe

Question 21

What is reckless behavior?

Answer 21

perceives the risk and understands risk is substantial/unjustified

Question 22

What is quality improvement?

Answer 22

prospective, continuous, team oriented, nonpunative, systems oriented, data driven

Question 23

What are the areas of quality improvement?

Answer 23

structure + process –> outcomes

Question 24

What is the tool for implementing quality improvement initiatives?

Answer 24

Plan
Do
Study
Act

Question 25

How does failure modes and effective analysis help prevent errors?

Answer 25

looks at the different ways things could fail and the consequences

Question 26

What are trigger tools?

Answer 26

retrospectively review triggers that indicate ADE occurred

Question 27

What is a medication use evaluation?

Answer 27

actual medication use is compared to acceptable/defined use

Question 28

What is a lean goal?

Answer 28

cut out all waste and steps without value

Question 29

What is the sigma six goal?

Answer 29

99.996% of all production opportunities are expected to be free of debts