WGU D033 HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Emergency access procedure - ✔✔There may be times when users need to have
access to data they are not normally allowed (also called "break the glass")
✔✔Emergency department systems (EDSs) - ✔✔A tool designed to meet the unique
needs of the emergency department; they are able to track patients from triage to
discharge. The information systems are also able to record test results and other clinical
information
✔✔Emergency mode operation plan - ✔✔Encompasses procedures necessary to keep
the critical business processes of the covered entity in place during information system
downtime
✔✔Encoder - ✔✔A specialty software used by coders to select the appropriate code for
the diagnosis(es) and procedure(s) supported by the health record
✔✔Encryption - ✔✔A process that converts data from a readable form to unintelligible
text. This is done with the science of cryptography, using mathematics to convert data
into unintelligible data and back again
,✔✔Enterprise master patient index (EMPI) - ✔✔A database that provides access to
multiple repositories of information from overlapping patient populations that are
maintained in separate information systems and databases
✔✔Entity-relationship diagram - ✔✔A common type of data modeling that focuses on
relationships between entities
✔✔E-patients - ✔✔Individuals who are equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged in
their health and health care decisions
✔✔Escrow - ✔✔A situation in which a third party holds a copy of the software in case
the vendor goes bankrupt
✔✔Evidence-based medicine - ✔✔Healthcare services based on clinical methods that
have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
✔✔Executive information system (EIS) - ✔✔A decision support system that is designed
to be used by healthcare administrators
✔✔Expander - ✔✔A tool that allows transcriptionists to type an acronym such as "CHF"
and the full phrase "congestive heart failure" will automatically be spelled out, thus
saving keystrokes and time
✔✔External scanning - ✔✔Identifying changes outside the healthcare facility that will
impact it
✔✔Facilities management system - ✔✔Used by a healthcare facility to manage the
physical plant; track routine maintenance such as elevator inspections, fire extinguisher
inspections, and equipment preventive maintenance
✔✔Facility access controls - ✔✔Limit physical access to the data center and software to
only authorized information system staff
✔✔Fact about an entity - ✔✔An attribute is a fact about an entity
✔✔Feasibility study - ✔✔Study conducted by the healthcare facility to determine if a
proposed information system is an appropriate option to meet the objectives of the
healthcare facility
✔✔Federated (decentralized) model - ✔✔Occurs where there is not a centralized
database of patient information
, ✔✔Financial applications - ✔✔Software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
✔✔Financial information system - ✔✔A critical system to the fiscal health of the
healthcare facility; receive accurate financial information in a timely manner to monitor
and manage the finances of the healthcare facility
✔✔Force majeure - ✔✔A legal term that refers to an event or effect that cannot be
reasonably anticipated or controlled
✔✔Foreign key - ✔✔A primary key from another table
✔✔Forward map - ✔✔A map that translates an ICD-9 code, as source code, to ICD-10
as its target code
✔✔Front-end speech recognition (FESR) - ✔✔A speech recognition technology in
which the physician or the dictator is the editor of the document that is dictated
✔✔Functional requirements - ✔✔Functionality that an information system should be
able to perform
✔✔Gantt chart - ✔✔A project management tool that records specific tasks, their start
and end dates, the person responsible for the tasks, and any connections between
tasks 320 Glossary
✔✔General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) - ✔✔A common mapping system used to
convert ICD-9-CM codes to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes or the reverse
✔✔Grouper - ✔✔A computer program that uses specific data elements to assign the
diagnostic and procedural codes entered into the encoder into the appropriate Medicare
severity diagnosis-related group (MS-DRG) or other diagnosis-related group (DRG)
✔✔Health informatics - ✔✔A 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
✔✔Health information blocking - ✔✔Persons or entities knowingly and unreasonably
interfere with the exchange or use of electronic health information
✔✔Health information exchange (HIE) - ✔✔The exchange of health information
electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability
✔✔Health information organization (HIO) - ✔✔A public-private partnership organization
that oversees, governs, and facilitates the transmission of health data between different
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Emergency access procedure - ✔✔There may be times when users need to have
access to data they are not normally allowed (also called "break the glass")
✔✔Emergency department systems (EDSs) - ✔✔A tool designed to meet the unique
needs of the emergency department; they are able to track patients from triage to
discharge. The information systems are also able to record test results and other clinical
information
✔✔Emergency mode operation plan - ✔✔Encompasses procedures necessary to keep
the critical business processes of the covered entity in place during information system
downtime
✔✔Encoder - ✔✔A specialty software used by coders to select the appropriate code for
the diagnosis(es) and procedure(s) supported by the health record
✔✔Encryption - ✔✔A process that converts data from a readable form to unintelligible
text. This is done with the science of cryptography, using mathematics to convert data
into unintelligible data and back again
,✔✔Enterprise master patient index (EMPI) - ✔✔A database that provides access to
multiple repositories of information from overlapping patient populations that are
maintained in separate information systems and databases
✔✔Entity-relationship diagram - ✔✔A common type of data modeling that focuses on
relationships between entities
✔✔E-patients - ✔✔Individuals who are equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged in
their health and health care decisions
✔✔Escrow - ✔✔A situation in which a third party holds a copy of the software in case
the vendor goes bankrupt
✔✔Evidence-based medicine - ✔✔Healthcare services based on clinical methods that
have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
✔✔Executive information system (EIS) - ✔✔A decision support system that is designed
to be used by healthcare administrators
✔✔Expander - ✔✔A tool that allows transcriptionists to type an acronym such as "CHF"
and the full phrase "congestive heart failure" will automatically be spelled out, thus
saving keystrokes and time
✔✔External scanning - ✔✔Identifying changes outside the healthcare facility that will
impact it
✔✔Facilities management system - ✔✔Used by a healthcare facility to manage the
physical plant; track routine maintenance such as elevator inspections, fire extinguisher
inspections, and equipment preventive maintenance
✔✔Facility access controls - ✔✔Limit physical access to the data center and software to
only authorized information system staff
✔✔Fact about an entity - ✔✔An attribute is a fact about an entity
✔✔Feasibility study - ✔✔Study conducted by the healthcare facility to determine if a
proposed information system is an appropriate option to meet the objectives of the
healthcare facility
✔✔Federated (decentralized) model - ✔✔Occurs where there is not a centralized
database of patient information
, ✔✔Financial applications - ✔✔Software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
✔✔Financial information system - ✔✔A critical system to the fiscal health of the
healthcare facility; receive accurate financial information in a timely manner to monitor
and manage the finances of the healthcare facility
✔✔Force majeure - ✔✔A legal term that refers to an event or effect that cannot be
reasonably anticipated or controlled
✔✔Foreign key - ✔✔A primary key from another table
✔✔Forward map - ✔✔A map that translates an ICD-9 code, as source code, to ICD-10
as its target code
✔✔Front-end speech recognition (FESR) - ✔✔A speech recognition technology in
which the physician or the dictator is the editor of the document that is dictated
✔✔Functional requirements - ✔✔Functionality that an information system should be
able to perform
✔✔Gantt chart - ✔✔A project management tool that records specific tasks, their start
and end dates, the person responsible for the tasks, and any connections between
tasks 320 Glossary
✔✔General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) - ✔✔A common mapping system used to
convert ICD-9-CM codes to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes or the reverse
✔✔Grouper - ✔✔A computer program that uses specific data elements to assign the
diagnostic and procedural codes entered into the encoder into the appropriate Medicare
severity diagnosis-related group (MS-DRG) or other diagnosis-related group (DRG)
✔✔Health informatics - ✔✔A 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
✔✔Health information blocking - ✔✔Persons or entities knowingly and unreasonably
interfere with the exchange or use of electronic health information
✔✔Health information exchange (HIE) - ✔✔The exchange of health information
electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability
✔✔Health information organization (HIO) - ✔✔A public-private partnership organization
that oversees, governs, and facilitates the transmission of health data between different
