Technology and Informatics

Question 1

The knowledge and use of tools, machines, materials, and processes to help solve human problems

Answer 1

Technology

Question 2

The science that encompasses information science and computer science to study the process, management, and retrieval of information

Answer 2

Informatics

Question 3

Health data is stored, analyzed, and disseminated through the application of information and communication technology

Answer 3

Health Informatics

Question 4

The focus of nursing informatics

Answer 4

How patient care can be improved

Question 5

What will improve quality, safety, and efficiency in health care?

Answer 5

Information Technology

Question 6

____ _____ ____ and ____ ____ intersect with the science of health to provide powerful tools and processes for advancing health practices.

Answer 6

Health Information Technology; Health Informatics

Question 7

An individual’s official, digital health record and is shared among multiple facilities and agencies

Answer 7

Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Question 8

An Individual’s health record within a Healthcare provider’s facility and decision support tools to guide practice and decision making

Answer 8

Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

Question 9

What provides tools needed for quality health care outcomes?

Answer 9

Clinical Information Systems (CIS)

Question 10

Who is responsible for specifying how hospitals demonstrate meaningful use of technologies to receive Medicare and Medicaid payment incentives

Answer 10

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Question 11

What ensures that client’s healthcare information was kept secure and private?

Answer 11

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Question 12

Electronic health records, Clinical data repositories, Decision support programs, Handheld devices are all examples of

Answer 12

Clinical Information Systems (CIS)

Question 13

Efficiency, Cost containment, Codified terminology, and Taxonomies and nomenclature are all links to

Answer 13

Standardization for information systems and terminology

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR)

Question 15

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).

Answer 15

Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Barcode Medication Administration

Question 17

What system allows the patient to e-mail their provider, request refills, and view information such as immunizations, medications, and laboratory results

Answer 17

Patient Portal

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Telehealth

Question 19

What demonstrations of policies have been implemented to outline how technology is applied and used?

Answer 19

Meaningful use criteria, Certification standards, Practices to reduce barriers for information exchange

Question 20

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

Answer 20

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)