FULL SOLUTION QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
◉ Needs Assessment. Answer: An assessment of needs of a
department or organization using different methods such as
surveys, interviews and report gathering.
◉ Conceptual Framework. Answer: A description and explanation of
concepts and their relationships and interactions related to a
specific phenomenon. Conceptual frameworks can be used to
propose theories and generate research questions. A conceptual
framework can also be used to develop a conceptual model.
◉ Data. Answer: Uninterpreted elements such as a person's name,
weight, or age. Because they are uninterpreted, they do not have
meaning.
◉ Data integrity. Answer: The accuracy and consistency of stored
and transmitted data. Data integrity can be compromised when
information is entered incorrectly or deliberately altered or when
the system protections are not working correctly or suddenly fail.
,◉ Data Mining. Answer: A step in the knowledge discovery process
of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large
relational databases.
◉ Data Science. Answer: The science of extracting knowledge or
insights from data in various forms, either structured or
unstructured.
◉ Gap Analysis. Answer: A measurement of where a condition,
situation or metric is currently and where it needs to be.
◉ Digital Literacy. Answer: The ability to operate and understand
digital devices of all types, including the technical skills to operate
these devices, the conceptual knowledge to understand their
functionality, and the ability to creatively and critically use these
devices to access, manipulate, evaluate, and apply data, information,
knowledge, and wisdom in activities of daily living.
◉ Information. Answer: comes from providing context to data. It is
data that has been endowed with meaning and purpose.
◉ Information System. Answer: The manual and/or automated
components of a system of users or people, recorded data, and
actions used to process the data into information for a user, group of
users, or an organization.
, ◉ Health Information Technology (HIT). Answer: Hardware,
software, integrated technologies or related licenses, intellectual
property, upgrades, or packaged solutions sold as services that are
designed for or support the use by health care entities or patients
for the electronic creation, maintenance, access, or exchange of
health information.
◉ Electronic Health Record. Answer: A computer-based data
warehouse or repository of information regarding the health status
of a client that is replacing the former paper-based medical record; it
is the systematic documentation of a client's health status and health
care in a secured digital format, meaning that it can be processed,
stored, transmitted, and accessed by authorized interdisciplinary
professionals for the purpose of supporting efficient, high-quality
health care across the client's health care continuum. Also known as
electronic medical record.
◉ Meaningful Use. Answer: The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 specifies three main components of
meaningful use: (1) the use of a certified electronic health record
(EHR) in a meaningful manner, such as e-prescribing; (2) the use of
certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health
information to improve quality of health care; and (3) the use of
certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other
measures. The criteria for meaningful use will be staged in three
steps. Stage 1 (2011-2012) sets the baseline for electronic data
capture and information sharing. Stage 2 (2013) and Stage 3