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Continuity of Care Record (CCD) ✔✔Technical informatics standards that provides a snapshot
of person current health to a provider who does not have access to person's heal
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WGU D220 Questions and Answers
Already Passed
Continuity of Care Record (CCD) ✔✔Technical informatics standards that provides a snapshot
of person current health to a provider who does not have access to person's health record.
CDSS (Clinical Decision Support System) ✔✔Designed to help the healthcare providers to make
knowledge-based clinical decisions. e.g. allergy alert, drug-to-drug interactions.
information ✔✔the data that has been interpreted.
Data ✔✔is the collections of facts, numbers and characters that are gathered according to some
perceived need for analysis.
Wisdom ✔✔using knowledge and experience to manage and solve problems.
alarm fatigue ✔✔Occurs when nurses become desensitized to patient care alarms and then miss
or delay response to an alarm
Health Information Technology (HIT) ✔✔Information systems and other information
technology used to record, monitor, and deliver patient care as well as perform managerial and
organizational functions
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) ✔✔formed in 2004 to advance
nurses competencies related to informatics.
Ergonomics ✔✔The scientific study of work and space including details that impacts
productivity and health.
Informatics ✔✔is the science and art of turning data into information.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) ✔✔EHR is a digital version of a patient paper chart. EHR is a
real-time patient-centered record that makes information available instantly and securely to
authorized users.
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ACT) ✔✔Also known as the Kennedy
Kassebaum Bill, it is the first legislation to protect automatic client records and to mandate all
electronic transactions include only HIPAA compliant codes.
Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) ✔✔produced evidence-making healthcare
safer, improving quality, accessibility, and accountability.
Data Integrity ✔✔Ability to collect, store and retrieve correct, complete and current data so that
data are available to authorized users when needed.
Integration ✔✔the process by which 2 different information system are able to exchange data in
a way that it is seamless to end user.
Standard Terminologies ✔✔Structured, controlled language developed according to
terminologies guideline and approved by authoritative body.
Phising ✔✔deceptive method used to steal sensitive information via the internet.
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) ✔✔a process by which a health care provider
directly enters orders for patient care into the hospital information system
User Interface ✔✔allows human and computer to cooperatively perform task and specific goals.
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) ✔✔legal record created in a hospital or ambulatory setting of
a single episode or visit that is the source of data for the electronic health record.
Medical Informatics ✔✔Skills in both medical and computer science come together in an effort
to improve health and patient outcomes.
Information System ✔✔A computer system that uses hardware and software to process data
information in order to solve problems.
Telehealth ✔✔the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support
long-distance clinical healthcare, health-related education, public health, and health
administration
Clinical Information System (CIS) ✔✔Focus upon the acquisition, review and use of patient
data. Functions may include - order entry, result reporting, scheduling, documentation.
Pictures archiving and communication system (PACS) ✔✔facilitates storage transmission and
sharing of medical images - x rays, MRI, CT, US.
Administrative Information System (AIS) ✔✔support the process of client care by managing
nonclinical, client-related information, financial and demographic information and provide
reporting capabilities. This includes client management, financial, payroll and human resources,
and quality assurance systems.
Benchmarking ✔✔the process of comparing an organization's practices and technology with
those of other companies.
Meaningful Use ✔✔use of HIT legislated by ARRA of 2009 to collect specific data with the
intent to improve care and populations health, engage patients and ensure privacy and security
with financial incentive from medicare and medicaid to providers. Goal of MU is to engage
patients, exchange data in an accurate way, improve patient care in a cost effective way, improve
Healthcare overall.s
personal health record (PHR) ✔✔Lifelong tool for managing health information such as disease
conditions, allergies, medications, past surgeries, and other relevant information.
Information Literacy ✔✔Is a ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills
to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively.
Health Literacy ✔✔the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and
understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Some informatics Challenges ✔✔Some informatics challenges are privacy issues, cognitive
disabilities, low health literacy. Many remain wary of privacy issues around their personal health
record. Individual over age of 65 may find the use of technology difficult. Individual with low
health literacy may be intimidated by unfamiliar terminology and prefer to interact directly with
their health care provider.
DIKW Framework ✔✔DIKW framework explains that data lead to information, information to
knowledge, knowledge to wisdom. This framework is particularly relevant when designing CDS
tools to advance nursing practice to top of licensure for improved nurse decision making. This
framework is pyramidal. Data have little or no meaning in isolation. Knowledge is information
that is processes and organized so that relations and interactions are identified, Wisdom is an
appropriate use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems.
Artificial Intelligence ✔✔is a kind of health information driven technology wherein intelligent
systems and technology use underlying trends or patterns to inform decision-making.
Data Scrubbing ✔✔is the process by which incorrect, incomplete, duplicate or improperly
formatted items are removed using special software designed for this purpose.
✔✔MEdical records data source is used to track events and transaction between patient and
HCP. Vital records data source provide information on fixed data elements at the state and
national level. Surveillance is a data source used when spe
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