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Information System - Answer- 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 - Answer- software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers - Answer- 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 - Answer- all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing - Answer- a system that operates on a computer that is owned and
maintained by a vendor.
Intranet - Answer- 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 - Answer- the exchange of health information
electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability.
Evidence-based medicine - Answer- healthcare services based on clinical methods that
have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways - Answer- a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care
planning for specific diagnoses and treatments
clinical practice guidelines - Answer- 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 - Answer- scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive,
information-processing, and communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and
research, including the information science and technology to support these tasks
Data Analytics - Answer- the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing
conclusions about that information
, Data mining - Answer- 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 - Answer- reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to
assist with strategic planning
descriptive statistics - Answer- set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such
as means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations; describes the
characteristics of a specific group or a population
inferential statistics - Answer- set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's
characteristics,
predictive modeling - Answer- process used to identify patterns that can be used to
predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical
data in order to predict what is likely to happen in the future.
certified health data analyst (CHDA) - Answer- advanced certification covers data
management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems - Answer- collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical
ancillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department information
related to patient care
document management system - Answer- electronic method of capturing and managing
documents.
target sheets - Answer- pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and,
ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
file server - Answer- large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has a
large amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
abstracting and quality control workstation - Answer- workstation is used for indexing
and quality control
backscanning - Answer- process of scanning past health records into the DMS so there
is an existing database of patient information
symbiology - Answer- format; for barcodes it is Code 39, also known as Code 3 of 9
Radiology Information System (RIS) - Answer- used to collect, store, and provide
information on radiological tests such as x-rays, ultrasound, magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and positron emission tomography (PET)