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WGU C427 Technology Applications in Healthcare Questions and Answers 100% Pass

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Healthcare Management Information System (HMIS) ✔✔One of the six building blocks essential for health system strengthening. Is a data collection system specifically designed to support planning, ... management, and decision making in health facilities and organizations. Protected Health Information (PHI) ✔✔The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and other important purposes. Health Information Portability and Protection Act (HIPAA) ✔✔Enacted on August 21, 1996, by the U.S. Congress to accelerate the development of data standards to improve the privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and security aspects of personal health information and to simplify the movement of individual patients' protected health information (PHI) between healthcare professionals and other covered entities that require the information, such as insurance companies Health Level 7 (HL7) ✔✔Accredited by ANSI, is a system development organization whose aim is to promote interoperability for the interchange of healthcare data. "Level Seven" refers to the highest level of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) communications model for open-systems interconnection (OSI)—the application level.12 Built on existing production protocols, predominantly those of ASTM Standard 1238. It operates as a nonprofit [Show More]

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