Unit 1 Quiz

Question 1

What is information brokerage?

Answer 1

Bi-directional sharing of information

Question 2

True or false: studies using Predictive Analytics to analyze Hospital readmissions have had mixed results

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is the most common degree pursued in health informatics?

Answer 3

Masters

Question 4

What are some challenges facing data analytics? (Select all that apply)
Data may be incomplete
Data may be inaccurate
Cause and effect may be difficult to prove with any data analysis
Time period not long enough

Answer 4

Data may be incomplete, data may be inaccurate, cause and effect may be difficult to prove with data analysis, time period not long enough.

Question 5

Which one of the following is not a barrier for the adoption of health information technology?

Answer 5

Government support

Question 6

True or false: data analytics Camp used in the genomics field due to large data sets

Answer 6

False

Question 7

In The Institute of medicine second report which of the following were promoted to improve health care

Answer 7

Information Technology infrastructure

Question 8

The LeapFrog group promotes which of the following to improve Medical Care and patient safety

Answer 8

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)

Question 9

Choose secondary uses (or re-use) of healthcare data. (Select all that apply) 
Quality reports
Research
Public health
Stock market

Answer 9

Quality reports, research, public health

Question 10

Which of the following represents Healthcare knowledge

Answer 10

HIV infection leads to opportunistic infections

Question 11

True or False: Electronic health records are a major source of phenotypical typical data.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Why are healthcare analyzing Hospital readmission data? (Select all that apply)

Answer 12

new Medicare regulations not reimbursing for readmission for certain diseases, readmissions are costly

Question 13

To be effective as a healthcare data analyst, which skill sets are required? (Select all that apply)
Programming skills
Knowledge of statistics
Good communication skills
Domain knowledge

Answer 13

Programming skills, knowledge of statistics, good communication skills, and domain knowledge

Question 14

Moore’s Law pertains to which of the following concepts?

Answer 14

The number of transistors in a computer chip doubles every 1.5 years

Question 15

What is text mining?

Answer 15

Data mining of unstructure data

Question 16

Which one of the following IS NOT a driving force for the adoption of health information technology?

Answer 16

Improved Joint Commission scores

Question 17

Select the main reason health IT fails

Answer 17

We are data rich but information poor.

Question 18

Which organization has been the leader in promoting information technology to decrease medical errors?

Answer 18

Institute of Medicine

Question 19

which one type of analytics would be used to analyze Hospital readmission rates for heart failure

Answer 19

Predictive

Question 20

Which of the following can help convert information into knowledge

Answer 20

Clinical data warehouses

Question 21

Select the main reason Health informatics is difficult

Answer 21

Data are vague vague, imprecise and inconsistent

Question 22

Which of the following represents a datum

Answer 22

14

Question 23

Select factors that might help merge bioinformatics with health informatics

Answer 23

Incorporation of genetic information into the electronic health record.

Question 24

Which of the following represents Healthcare information

Answer 24

Elevated fasting blood sugar and HbA1c proving diabetes

Question 25

Which of the following can be facilitated by clinical data warehouses? (Select all that apply) 
Quality measurements
Comparative effectiveness research
Population health
Disease management

Answer 25

Quality measurements, comparative effectiveness research, population health, disease management