QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ systems development life
cycle (SDLC). Answer: A model used to represent the ongoing process
of developing (or purchasing) information systems
◉ Informatics. Answer: the science of information management. A field
of study that focuses on the use of tech-neology to improve access to,
and utilization of, information
◉ information management.. Answer: The acquisition, organization,
analysis, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information to support
decision-making activities
◉ Healthcare informatics. Answer: The field of information science
concerned with the management of all aspects of health data and
information through the application of computers and computer
technologies
◉ information science. Answer: The study of the nature and principles
of information
,◉ Applied healthcare informatics. Answer: Automated information
systems applied to healthcare delivery business and work-flow
processes, including the diagnosis, therapy, and systems of managing
health data and information within the health-care setting
◉ clinical data repository. Answer: a component of the
EHR that captures data. A central database that focuses on clinical
information
◉ data types. Answer: A technical category of data (text, numbers,
currency, date, memo, and link data) that a field in a database can
contain
◉ discrete data. Answer: Data that represent separate and distinct values
or observations; that is, data that contain only finite numbers and have
only specified values
◉ Free-text data. Answer: Data that are narrative in nature
◉ structured data. Answer: Binary, computer-readable data
◉ Diagnostic image data. Answer: Bit-mapped images used for medical
or diagnostic purposes (for example, chest x-rays or computed
tomography scans)
,◉ bit-mapped data. Answer: Data made up of pixels displayed on a
horizontal and vertical grid or matrix
◉ raster image. Answer: A digital image or digital data made up of
pixels in a horizontal and vertical grid or a matrix instead of lines plotted
between a series of points
◉ pixel. Answer: An abbreviation for the term picture element, which is
defined by many tiny bits of data or points
◉ analog. Answer: Data or information that is not represented in an en-
coded, computer-readable format
◉ digital. Answer: 1. A data transmission type based on data that have
been binary encoded 2. A term that refers to the data or information
represented in an encoded, computer-readable format
◉ digital modalities. Answer: computed radiography (CR), CT,
magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
◉ Real audio data. Answer: sound bytes, such as digital heart
sounds.The storing, manipulating, and displaying of sound in a
computer-readable format
, ◉ Motion or streaming
video/frame data. Answer: cardiac catheterizations, consist
of digital film attributes, such as fast forwarding. A medium for storing,
manipulating, and displaying moving images in a format, such as
frames, that can be presented on a computer monitor
◉ vector graphic. Answer: Digital data that have been captured as points
and are connected by lines (a series of point coordinates) or areas
(shapes bounded by lines)
◉ signal tracing data. Answer: created by saving lines plotted between a
series of points,
accounting for the familiar electrocardiograms (ECGs),
electroencephalograms (EEGs), and fetal heart rate (FHR)
tracings.
◉ unstructured data. Answer: Nonbinary, human-readable data
◉ multimedia. Answer: The combination of free-text, raster or vector
graphics, sound, and motion video/frame data
◉ speech recognition technology. Answer: Technology that translates
speech to text