WGU D033 Questions and Answers
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Information System ✔✔an automated system that uses computer hardware and software to
record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that recei
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WGU D033 Questions and Answers
Already Passed
Information System ✔✔an automated system that uses computer hardware and software to
record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that receives and
processes input and provides output)
Financial applications ✔✔software applications that handle patient accounts, budgets, and other
financial activities
Mainframe computers ✔✔large computers that are used by the government and other
organizations that require speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
Dumb Terminals ✔✔all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing ✔✔a system that operates on a computer that is owned and maintained by a
vendor.
Intranet ✔✔a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however, its servers
are located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot gain access to
information housed within the network
Health Information Exchange ✔✔the exchange of health information electronically between
providers and others with the same level of interoperability.
Evidence-based medicine ✔✔healthcare services based on clinical methods that have been
thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways ✔✔a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning for specific
diagnoses and treatments
clinical practice guidelines ✔✔provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare
practitioners to make knowledge-based decisions related to patient care and issued by an
authoritative organization such as a medical society.
Health Informatics ✔✔scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive, informationprocessing, and communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and research, including
the information science and technology to support these tasks
Data Analytics ✔✔the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions
about that information
Data mining ✔✔process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for
the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those
relationships to predict behaviors.
dashboards ✔✔reports of process measures to he
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