WGU D220 Informatics Questions and
Answers Already Passed
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) ✔✔**Authorized INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for adopting & using
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WGU D220 Informatics Questions and
Answers Already Passed
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) ✔✔**Authorized INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for adopting & using
interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and promote
economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3) To provide
investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in
science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other
infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To stabilize state and local
government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and
counterproductive state and local tax increases.
AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) ✔✔Produced evidence making healthcare
safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability
Asynchoronous Applications ✔✔No contact with patient for data collection. EX: Remote pt
monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data w/ providers. STORE &
FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
Administrative Information System ✔✔can include registration and scheduling; tracking through
admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling; financial or accounting
systems; risk management; payroll and human resources; quality assurance; and contract
management functions.
Affordable Care Act ✔✔law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost
reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of
Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.
Alarm Fatique ✔✔Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or delaying their
response to the alarm.
ANA (American Nurses Association) ✔✔Professional organization for all RNs. Concerned with
licensure, collective bargaining and education
Analytics ✔✔A term describing the extensive use of d
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