LSUS MHA 705 Exam 1
Healthcare informatics - CORRECT 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.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 - CORRECT ANSWER-The study of the nature and principles of
information.
Applied healthcare informatics - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-a component of the
EHR that captures data. A central database that fo-cuses on clinical information.
data types - CORRECT ANSWER-A technical category of data (text, numbers, cur-
rency, date, memo, and link data) that a field in a database can contain
discrete data - CORRECT ANSWER-Data that represent separate and distinct val-ues
or observations; that is, data that contain only finite num-bers and have only specified
values.
Free-text data - CORRECT ANSWER-Data that are narrative in nature
structured data - CORRECT ANSWER-Binary, computer-readable data
Diagnostic image data - CORRECT ANSWER-Bit-mapped images used for medi-cal or
diagnostic purposes (for example, chest x-rays or com-puted tomography scans)
bit-mapped data - CORRECT ANSWER-Data made up of pixels displayed on a
horizontal and vertical grid or matrix
raster image - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-An abbreviation for the term picture element, which is
defined by many tiny bits of data or pointsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language
Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American
Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
analog - CORRECT ANSWER-Data or information that is not represented in an en-
coded, computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice.
Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital - CORRECT 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 formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice.
Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital modalities - CORRECT ANSWER-computed radiography (CR), CT,
magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
Real audio data - CORRECT ANSWER-sound bytes, such as digital heart sounds.The
storing, manipulating, and displaying of sound in a computer-readable formatMLA 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA
7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information
Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Motion or streaming
video/frame data - CORRECT 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 monitorMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al.
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed,
AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K.
(2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th
ed. AHIMA Press.
,vector graphic - CORRECT ANSWER-Digital data that have been captured as points
and are connected by lines (a se-ries of point coordinates) or areas (shapes bounded
by lines)MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
signal tracing data - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-Nonbinary, human-readable dataMLA 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA
7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information
Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
multimedia - CORRECT ANSWER-The combination of free-text, raster or vector
graphics, sound, and motion video/frame dataMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language
Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American
Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
speech recognition technology - CORRECT ANSWER-Technology that translates
speech to textMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al.
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed,
AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K.
(2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th
ed. AHIMA Press.
information systems (IS) - CORRECT 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); often
used inter-changeably with information technology (IT)
systems development life
, cycle (SDLC) - CORRECT ANSWER-A model used to represent the ongoing process of
developing (or purchasing) information systems
Informatics - CORRECT ANSWER-the science of information management.A field of
study that focuses on the use of tech-nology to improve access to, and utilization of,
information
information management. - CORRECT ANSWER-The acquisition, organization,
analysis, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information to support decision-making
activities
Continuous speech input - CORRECT ANSWER-The quality of speech/voice rec-
ognition technology that does not require users to pause be-tween words to allow the
computer to distinguish between the beginnings and endings of wordsMLA 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition
(American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information
Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
natural language processing
technology - CORRECT ANSWER-The extraction of unstructured or structured medical
word data, which are then translated into diagnostic or procedural codes for clinical and
administrative applicationsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen
M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K.
(2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th
ed. AHIMA Press.
Autocoding - CORRECT ANSWER-The process of extracting and translating dic-tated
and then transcribed free-text data (or dictated and then computer-generated discrete
data) into ICD-9-CM and CPT evaluation and management codes for billing and cod-ing
purposesMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
computer-assisted coding - CORRECT ANSWER-the terms
commonly used to describe natural language processing
technology's method of extracting and subsequently translating
dictated and then transcribed free-text data, or dictated
and then computer-generated discrete data, into ICD or CPT
Healthcare informatics - CORRECT 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.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 - CORRECT ANSWER-The study of the nature and principles of
information.
Applied healthcare informatics - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-a component of the
EHR that captures data. A central database that fo-cuses on clinical information.
data types - CORRECT ANSWER-A technical category of data (text, numbers, cur-
rency, date, memo, and link data) that a field in a database can contain
discrete data - CORRECT ANSWER-Data that represent separate and distinct val-ues
or observations; that is, data that contain only finite num-bers and have only specified
values.
Free-text data - CORRECT ANSWER-Data that are narrative in nature
structured data - CORRECT ANSWER-Binary, computer-readable data
Diagnostic image data - CORRECT ANSWER-Bit-mapped images used for medi-cal or
diagnostic purposes (for example, chest x-rays or com-puted tomography scans)
bit-mapped data - CORRECT ANSWER-Data made up of pixels displayed on a
horizontal and vertical grid or matrix
raster image - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-An abbreviation for the term picture element, which is
defined by many tiny bits of data or pointsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language
Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American
Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
analog - CORRECT ANSWER-Data or information that is not represented in an en-
coded, computer-readable formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice.
Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital - CORRECT 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 formatMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour,
Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice.
Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management Association,
Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
digital modalities - CORRECT ANSWER-computed radiography (CR), CT,
magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
Real audio data - CORRECT ANSWER-sound bytes, such as digital heart sounds.The
storing, manipulating, and displaying of sound in a computer-readable formatMLA 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA
7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information
Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
Motion or streaming
video/frame data - CORRECT 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 monitorMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al.
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed,
AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K.
(2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th
ed. AHIMA Press.
,vector graphic - CORRECT ANSWER-Digital data that have been captured as points
and are connected by lines (a se-ries of point coordinates) or areas (shapes bounded
by lines)MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
signal tracing data - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-Nonbinary, human-readable dataMLA 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA
7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information
Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
multimedia - CORRECT ANSWER-The combination of free-text, raster or vector
graphics, sound, and motion video/frame dataMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language
Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts,
Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American
Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
speech recognition technology - CORRECT ANSWER-Technology that translates
speech to textMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al.
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed,
AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K.
(2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th
ed. AHIMA Press.
information systems (IS) - CORRECT 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); often
used inter-changeably with information technology (IT)
systems development life
, cycle (SDLC) - CORRECT ANSWER-A model used to represent the ongoing process of
developing (or purchasing) information systems
Informatics - CORRECT ANSWER-the science of information management.A field of
study that focuses on the use of tech-nology to improve access to, and utilization of,
information
information management. - CORRECT ANSWER-The acquisition, organization,
analysis, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information to support decision-making
activities
Continuous speech input - CORRECT ANSWER-The quality of speech/voice rec-
ognition technology that does not require users to pause be-tween words to allow the
computer to distinguish between the beginnings and endings of wordsMLA 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition
(American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American Health Information
Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press.
natural language processing
technology - CORRECT ANSWER-The extraction of unstructured or structured medical
word data, which are then translated into diagnostic or procedural codes for clinical and
administrative applicationsMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen
M., et al. Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M.,
American Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K.
(2013). Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th
ed. AHIMA Press.
Autocoding - CORRECT ANSWER-The process of extracting and translating dic-tated
and then transcribed free-text data (or dictated and then computer-generated discrete
data) into ICD-9-CM and CPT evaluation and management codes for billing and cod-ing
purposesMLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)LaTour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA
Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)LaTour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013).
Health Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed.
AHIMA Press.
computer-assisted coding - CORRECT ANSWER-the terms
commonly used to describe natural language processing
technology's method of extracting and subsequently translating
dictated and then transcribed free-text data, or dictated
and then computer-generated discrete data, into ICD or CPT
