Quizlet questions Flashcards

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What is wisdom?

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Using knowledge and experience to manage and solve problems.

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What is knowledge?

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The synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single concept or idea.

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What is information?

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Data that has been interpreted.

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What is data?

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A collection of numbers, characters, or facts, that are gathered according to some perceived need for analysis.

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What is a knowledge worker?

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An individual with a high degree of expertise, education, or experience who creates, distributes, and applies knowledge.

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What is information literacy?

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The Ability to recognize what information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate, and use needed information effectively.

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What is an information system?

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A computer system that uses hardware and software to process data into information in order to solve a problem.

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What is an informatics innovator?

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One who is expected to be educationally prepared to conduct informatics research and generate informatics theory, and have advanced understanding and skills in information management and computer technology.

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What is an informatics Specialist?

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A nurse with advanced skills specific to health information management and computer technology, with expertise in systems development life cycles.

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What is Standardized Terminologies?

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Structured, controlled languages that are developed according to terminology guidelines and approved by an authoritative body.

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What is a data warehouse?

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A type of data management system that provides a powerful method of managing and analyzing data.

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What is CDSS?

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Clinical Decision Support System: A system that supports healthcare practitioners in making patient-care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge.

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What is CPOE?

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Computerized Provider/Practitioner Order Entry: The prescriber’s decisions to enter orders and immediately share the orders with appropriate health professionals who execute the orders and the departments that need to dispense, schedule, or immediately deliver services to patients.

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What is the EHR?

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Electronic Health Record: A database of an individual’s healthcare data during healthcare encounters. It is comprised of any patient data stored in electronic form.

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What is the EMR?

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The Electronic Medical Record: A legal record created in hospitals and ambulatory settings, of a single encounter or visit that is the source of data for the Electronic Health Record. It brings together diagnostic and treatment information for an individual in a specific healthcare setting.

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What is a PHR?

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Personal Health Record: A lifelong tool for managing health information, such as conditions, allergies, medications, past surgeries and other relevant information.

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What is Physical Security?

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The protection of physical items, objects, or areas from unauthorized access and misuse. Measures include the placement of computers, file servers, routers, switches, and computers in restricted areas. Other examples include physical locks on devices.

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What is Logical Security?

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Non-tangible protocols used for identification, authentication, authorization, and accountability. Examples include automatic sign-off after a period of no activity.

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What is HIE?

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Health Information Exchange–the electronic sharing of patient information between healthcare providers according to nationally recognized standards.

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What is the HITECH Act?

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The Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health Act was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It promotes the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.

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What is HIPAA?

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill, is the first federal legislation to protect automatic client records and mandate that all electronic transactions include only HIPAA compliant codes.

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What is Ergonomics?

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The scientific study of work and space, including details that impact productivity and health.

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What is data mining?

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A technique that looks for hidden patterns and relationships in large groups of data using software.

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What is ICD-10?

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International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision: The international standard diagnostic classification for health-management purposes, and clinical use. The ICD diagnoses are used to classify mortality and morbidity data from inpatient and outpatient records. Also used for reimbursement.

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What is the Store-and-Forward applications?

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Asynchronous connected-health applications that can transmit recorded health information (i.e. photos,) through a secure communication network to a provider.

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What is Telehealth?

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The delivery of information to healthcare providers and consumers, and the delivery of services to clients at remote sites through the use of telecommunication and computer technology.

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What is the CCD?

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Continuity of Care Record: A technical informatics standard that provides a snapshot of a person’s current health and healthcare to a provider who does not have access to that person’s electronic health record.

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What is a mission?

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A purpose or reason for an organization’s existence, representing the fundamental and unique aspirations that differentiate it from others.

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What is a vision?

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A future-oriented, high-level view of what an organization would like to become that provides direction for planning purposes.

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What is usability?

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Specific issues of human performance in achieving specific goals during computer interactions, within a particular context.

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What is a user interface?

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The point where humans and computers are allowed to cooperatively perform tasks and specific goals.

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What is the ARRA?

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Authorized incentive payments to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting and using interoperable health information technology and EHRS.

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What does MU mean?

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Meaningful use. Use of health information technology (HIT) legislated by ARRA of 2009 to collect specific data with the intent to improve care and populations’ health, engage patients, and ensure privacy and security, with financial incentive from Medicare and Medicaid.

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What are MU Core requirements?

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Meaningful Use Core Requirements: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed core criteria that defined basic functions of EHRs must demonstrate. Criteria includes basic entry of clinical information, use of several software applications, and entry of clinical orders with safety measures.

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What is authentication?

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An action that verifies the authority of users to receive specified data.

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What is the TIGER initiative?

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The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform Initiative: Formed in 2004 to advance nurses’ competencies related to informatics. Primary objective was to develop a US nursing workforce capable of using EHR to improve the delivery of health care.

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What is Medical Informatics?

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Application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as well as to the practice of medicine.

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What is Nursing Informatics?

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Using nursing knowledge, along with information and communication technology, to promote the health of individuals, families, and entire populations.

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What is CHI?

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Consumer Health Informatics: Use of electronic information and communication to improve medical outcomes and healthcare decision making from the patient/consumer perspective.

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What is informatics?

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The science and art of turning data into information.

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What is knowledge management?

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The structured process for the generation, storage, distribution, and application of both tacit knowledge (personal experience) and explicit knowledge (evidence)

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What is Knowledge Work?

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The work of gathering data, which is then used to create information and knowledge that is completed by nurses and other HCP.

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What is integration?

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The process by which two different information systems are able to exchange data in a way that is seamless to the end-user.

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What is privacy?

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The right to control access and disclosure or nondisclosure of information pertaining to oneself and to control the circumstances, timing, and extent to which information may be disclosed.

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What is confidentiality?

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The unspoken understanding that private information shared in a situation in which a relationship has been established for the purpose of treatment or delivery of services will remain protected.

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What are SNOMED Clinical terms?

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Globally recognized, controlled healthcare vocabulary that provides a common language for Electronic Health Records.

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What is Lewin’s Change Model?

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One of several foundational theories for leading others through planned change: Identifies three steps:

  1. Unfreezing
  2. Changing
  3. Refreezing
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What is interoperability?

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The ability of two entities, human or machine, to exchange and predictably use data or information while retaining the original meaning of the data.

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What is HIT?

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Health Information Technology: Information systems and other information technology used to record, monitor, and deliver patient care as well as perform managerial and organizational functions.

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What is Big Data?

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Very large data sets that are beyond human capability to analyze or manage without the aid of information technology

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What is Phishing?

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A deceptive method that is used to steal sensitive information via the internet. In the first phase the recipient typically receives a phish, or email. The second stage involves the victim following through on what they are asked to do, such as completing a form. Once the recipient completes the information, the hackers now have information that they can use for nefarious purposes.

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What are Synchronous Applications?

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Connected health applications that facilitate real-time video and voice interaction, and bidirectional communication between patients and healthcare providers.

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What are asynchronous applications?

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Applications such as remote patient monitoring (RPM) that is patient-centric and allows consumers to participate in their own care by using designated health technology to share health, metrics and data with their healthcare provider.

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What is the Scope Creep?

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The unexpected and uncontrolled growth of user expectations as a project progresses.

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What is configurability?

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The extent that a given software product can be adopted or changed to meet a user’s preference.

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What is Connected Health?

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A model or platform by which technology-assisted healthcare is delivered between at least two points, involving either asynchronous or synchronous exchange.

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What is MIPS?

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Merit-based Incentive Payment System: A new program that combines other incentive programs that combines physician quality reporting system (PQRS) and the Medicare EHRS, that will be measured based on quality, resource use, clinical-practice environment, and meaningful use of EHRS technology.

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What is SWOT Analysis?

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A process that examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a given situation.

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What is Data Integrity?

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The ability to collect, store, and retrieve correct, complete, and current data so that the data are available to authorized users when needed.