Technology and Informatics Flashcards
The knowledge and use of tools, machines, materials, and processes to help solve human problems
Technology
The science that encompasses information science and computer science to study the process, management, and retrieval of information
Informatics
Health data is stored, analyzed, and disseminated through the application of information and communication technology
Health Informatics
The focus of nursing informatics
How patient care can be improved
What will improve quality, safety, and efficiency in health care?
Information Technology
____ _____ ____ and ____ ____ intersect with the science of health to provide powerful tools and processes for advancing health practices.
Health Information Technology; Health Informatics
An individual’s official, digital health record and is shared among multiple facilities and agencies
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
An Individual’s health record within a Healthcare provider’s facility and decision support tools to guide practice and decision making
Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
What provides tools needed for quality health care outcomes?
Clinical Information Systems (CIS)
Who is responsible for specifying how hospitals demonstrate meaningful use of technologies to receive Medicare and Medicaid payment incentives
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
What ensures that client’s healthcare information was kept secure and private?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Electronic health records, Clinical data repositories, Decision support programs, Handheld devices are all examples of
Clinical Information Systems (CIS)
Efficiency, Cost containment, Codified terminology, and Taxonomies and nomenclature are all links to
Standardization for information systems and terminology
What provides a list of medication orders and when they are due to be administered. Once the medication is administered, it also provides a place to document medication administration; provides historical information regarding medications that have been administered.
Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR)
What allows providers within a health-care organization to enter orders directly into a patient’s record; integration of decision support systems (e.g., allergy alerting) and helps standardize patient care by encouraging groups of evidence-based orders (order sets).
Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
Process in which clinicians use a barcode reader to verify a patient’s identity and drug information immediately before giving medication to a patient; requires both the patient identifier (wrist band) and drug packaging to have a barcode
Barcode Medication Administration
What system allows the patient to e-mail their provider, request refills, and view information such as immunizations, medications, and laboratory results
Patient Portal
Specialty in health care in which electronic devices (e.g., computers) and telecommunication technology are used to serve education and health care to clinicians and patients
Telehealth
What demonstrations of policies have been implemented to outline how technology is applied and used?
Meaningful use criteria, Certification standards, Practices to reduce barriers for information exchange
Requirements include metrics to improve patient care, quality, and public health; Provides incentives when metrics are met by both physician practices and hospitals to move toward electronic documentation and processes to improve patient care is components of
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
