HEALTH INFORMATICS MODULE 2 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Orign of HI - Answers 1950-1960's
Informatics - Answers The science of information and the blending of people biomedicine and
technology. A set of skills and methodological tools, knowledge experience and activity
Information hierarchy - Answers Data, information, knowledge and wisdom
Data - Answers Are symbols or observations reflecting differences in the world. No meaning
associated with data.
Information - Answers Meaningful data or facts from which conclusions can be drawn. Fundamental
issue - computer do process information only data, who, what, where, when
Knowledge - Answers Is information that is justifiably true. How
Wisdom - Answers Is the critical use of knowledge to make intelligent decisions and work through
situations of signal versus noise. Why
Level 1 data - Answers Nonelectric data (paper form)
Level 2 data - Answers Unstructured, viewable electronic data (scans)
Level 3 data - Answers Structured viewable electronic data (cannot be computed by other systems
Level 4 data - Answers Computable electronic data (can be computed by other systems
Health informatics - Answers Is the field of information science concerned with management of
healthcare data and information through application of computers and other technologies
EHR meaning - Answers Electronic health records
PHR - Answers Personal health record
HIE - Answers Health information exchange
Data mining - Answers Clinical, financial and admin data = enterprise data warehouse = data mart or
business analyst intelligence
Biomedical Informatics - Answers The interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective
uses of biomedical Information and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving decision making,
motivated by efforts to improve human health
Basic research - Answers Applied research and practice
Bioinformatics - Answers Molecular and cellular processes
Imaging Informatics - Answers Tissues and organs
Clinical Informatics - Answers Individual patient
Public health informatics - Answers Population and society
Bioinformatics definition - Answers Sub field of biomedical Informatics that is concerned with
biological data, DNA and genomic information
HIT - Answers Health information technology is the application of computers and technology is
healthcare setting
HIM - Answers Focus on the paper medical record and coding. New issues Such as privacy and new
concepts
Healthcare brokerage - Answers The sharing of a variety of information back and forth between
people and healthcare entities
Management of information standard for hospital certification - Answers Information: enternal and
internal data, technology: networks, internet, HIS,LIS, RIS and databases healthcare functions: patient
care, med. rec, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, financial, business analyst, research
HIS - Answers Hospital information systems
LIS - Answers Laboratory information systems
RIS - Answers Research information systems
Adoption of health care to increase - Answers The efficiency of health care
Adoption of health to improve quality - Answers Of health care resulting in improved patient safety
Adoption of health care reduce - Answers Healthcare cost
Adoption of health care to improve healthcare - Answers Access with technologies such as
telemedicine
Adoption of health care to improve communication - Answers Coordination and continuity of care
Adoption of health care to improve medical - Answers Education for clinicians and patients
Adoption of health care to - Answers Standardize medical care
Moore law - Answers States that the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every
two years, Gordon Moore. Technologies will evolve at a rapid rate , 1965
Gordon moore - Answers Co founder of intel 1965
, Disruptive technologies - Answers Innovations that just appear and soon take over mainstream
technologies such as Mobile phones, digital imaging and voice recognition
Data explosion - Answers Result of automating and digitizing multiple medical processes
Data.gov - Answers 2009 presidential open government directive was issued for the heads of the govt
to promote the publication of government information online, improve the quality of data and to
promote transparency.
Healthdata.gov - Answers Make federal datasets available to healthcare organizations, developers
and researchers
Information available on healthdata.gov - Answers Community health status indicator, child growth
charts, health data interactive, behavioral risk factor surveillance system CDC, births CDC, mortality
cdc, fourth national survey of older Americans, health indicators warehouse, population CDC, cancer
profiles, Archimedes data model and analysis, health data initiative,
HDI - Answers Health data initiative
Health data initiative meaning - Answers Sponsored by the HHS and IOM is public private partnership
brings together disparate users of healthcare data in an effort to improve quality and safety now call
the health data consortium
HIW topics - Answers Chronic disease and conditions, demographics, disabilities, geography, health
behavior, healthcare...etc
2020 health people - Answers HIW created 100 indicators for measurement of progress
Health data.gov agency - Answers Department of health and human sciences NIH
Health data.gob coverage date - Answers 1984-2013
HIW GEOGRAPHY - Answers State and county
Health data gov geography - Answers Zip, country, state, county, city, street, address, MSA, SUB
NATIONAL region, lat/long coordinates
ENIAC - Answers First general computer released in 1946 took 1000 sq ft
Ken Olson - Answers President of digital equipment corp. "no reason anyone would want a computer.
Gustav Wagner - Answers Developed first organization for in formations in 1949
Ledluy and lusted - Answers Medical diagnosis and treatment by 1950
MUMPS - Answers Massachusetts general hospital multi programming system. By Octo Barnett. Used
in EHR systems Vista, epic and va medical system
Medical Informatics term origin - Answers France in 1960
MEDLINE and MEDLARS - Answers In mid 1960 created to organize the worlds medical literature
quantum leap past medicus
MYCIN AND INTERNIST-1 - Answers 1970 and 1980 Ai programs
NLP - Answers Natural language process. Potential to intelligently interpret free text
Internet - Answers Arapanet developed in 1969
Tim berners-lee - Answers www was conceived in 1990
Mosaic - Answers First browser in 1993
Internet defined - Answers Network of networks consisting of hardware and software
HTTP - Answers Set of protocols supported by the internet hyper text transfer protocols
EHR origins - Answers Discussed since the 1970 recommended by IOM in 1991
Palm pilot - Answers 1996 first hand held device
Human genome project - Answers 2003 completed after 13 years, greatest accomplishments in
scientific history
NwHIN - Answers Nationwide Health information network in 2004 rename health exchange in 2012
sub group health way created to connect all EHR, health orgs and govt agencies in 10 years
Patients use of HIT - Answers Smartphones, web, online patient surveys, online chat and blogs, PHR,
home medicine, HIE access
Physicians and nurses use of HIT - Answers Online searches, online resources, patient web portals,
clinical decision, physician web portal, eMAR, EHR, smartphone with EHR, Telemedicine, voice
recognition software, CME, E-research, electronic billing
Support staff use of HIT - Answers Patient enrollment, electronic appointment, billing and coding,
EHR, web based credentials, web-based clearinghouse,
Public health use of HIT - Answers Incident reports, syndromic surveillance, link to all public health
departments, geographic information, telemedicine, remote reporting
Fed and state use of HIT - Answers eHealth exchange, financial support, development of standards, IT
piLot project, disease managment, pay for performance
Orign of HI - Answers 1950-1960's
Informatics - Answers The science of information and the blending of people biomedicine and
technology. A set of skills and methodological tools, knowledge experience and activity
Information hierarchy - Answers Data, information, knowledge and wisdom
Data - Answers Are symbols or observations reflecting differences in the world. No meaning
associated with data.
Information - Answers Meaningful data or facts from which conclusions can be drawn. Fundamental
issue - computer do process information only data, who, what, where, when
Knowledge - Answers Is information that is justifiably true. How
Wisdom - Answers Is the critical use of knowledge to make intelligent decisions and work through
situations of signal versus noise. Why
Level 1 data - Answers Nonelectric data (paper form)
Level 2 data - Answers Unstructured, viewable electronic data (scans)
Level 3 data - Answers Structured viewable electronic data (cannot be computed by other systems
Level 4 data - Answers Computable electronic data (can be computed by other systems
Health informatics - Answers Is the field of information science concerned with management of
healthcare data and information through application of computers and other technologies
EHR meaning - Answers Electronic health records
PHR - Answers Personal health record
HIE - Answers Health information exchange
Data mining - Answers Clinical, financial and admin data = enterprise data warehouse = data mart or
business analyst intelligence
Biomedical Informatics - Answers The interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective
uses of biomedical Information and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving decision making,
motivated by efforts to improve human health
Basic research - Answers Applied research and practice
Bioinformatics - Answers Molecular and cellular processes
Imaging Informatics - Answers Tissues and organs
Clinical Informatics - Answers Individual patient
Public health informatics - Answers Population and society
Bioinformatics definition - Answers Sub field of biomedical Informatics that is concerned with
biological data, DNA and genomic information
HIT - Answers Health information technology is the application of computers and technology is
healthcare setting
HIM - Answers Focus on the paper medical record and coding. New issues Such as privacy and new
concepts
Healthcare brokerage - Answers The sharing of a variety of information back and forth between
people and healthcare entities
Management of information standard for hospital certification - Answers Information: enternal and
internal data, technology: networks, internet, HIS,LIS, RIS and databases healthcare functions: patient
care, med. rec, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, financial, business analyst, research
HIS - Answers Hospital information systems
LIS - Answers Laboratory information systems
RIS - Answers Research information systems
Adoption of health care to increase - Answers The efficiency of health care
Adoption of health to improve quality - Answers Of health care resulting in improved patient safety
Adoption of health care reduce - Answers Healthcare cost
Adoption of health care to improve healthcare - Answers Access with technologies such as
telemedicine
Adoption of health care to improve communication - Answers Coordination and continuity of care
Adoption of health care to improve medical - Answers Education for clinicians and patients
Adoption of health care to - Answers Standardize medical care
Moore law - Answers States that the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every
two years, Gordon Moore. Technologies will evolve at a rapid rate , 1965
Gordon moore - Answers Co founder of intel 1965
, Disruptive technologies - Answers Innovations that just appear and soon take over mainstream
technologies such as Mobile phones, digital imaging and voice recognition
Data explosion - Answers Result of automating and digitizing multiple medical processes
Data.gov - Answers 2009 presidential open government directive was issued for the heads of the govt
to promote the publication of government information online, improve the quality of data and to
promote transparency.
Healthdata.gov - Answers Make federal datasets available to healthcare organizations, developers
and researchers
Information available on healthdata.gov - Answers Community health status indicator, child growth
charts, health data interactive, behavioral risk factor surveillance system CDC, births CDC, mortality
cdc, fourth national survey of older Americans, health indicators warehouse, population CDC, cancer
profiles, Archimedes data model and analysis, health data initiative,
HDI - Answers Health data initiative
Health data initiative meaning - Answers Sponsored by the HHS and IOM is public private partnership
brings together disparate users of healthcare data in an effort to improve quality and safety now call
the health data consortium
HIW topics - Answers Chronic disease and conditions, demographics, disabilities, geography, health
behavior, healthcare...etc
2020 health people - Answers HIW created 100 indicators for measurement of progress
Health data.gov agency - Answers Department of health and human sciences NIH
Health data.gob coverage date - Answers 1984-2013
HIW GEOGRAPHY - Answers State and county
Health data gov geography - Answers Zip, country, state, county, city, street, address, MSA, SUB
NATIONAL region, lat/long coordinates
ENIAC - Answers First general computer released in 1946 took 1000 sq ft
Ken Olson - Answers President of digital equipment corp. "no reason anyone would want a computer.
Gustav Wagner - Answers Developed first organization for in formations in 1949
Ledluy and lusted - Answers Medical diagnosis and treatment by 1950
MUMPS - Answers Massachusetts general hospital multi programming system. By Octo Barnett. Used
in EHR systems Vista, epic and va medical system
Medical Informatics term origin - Answers France in 1960
MEDLINE and MEDLARS - Answers In mid 1960 created to organize the worlds medical literature
quantum leap past medicus
MYCIN AND INTERNIST-1 - Answers 1970 and 1980 Ai programs
NLP - Answers Natural language process. Potential to intelligently interpret free text
Internet - Answers Arapanet developed in 1969
Tim berners-lee - Answers www was conceived in 1990
Mosaic - Answers First browser in 1993
Internet defined - Answers Network of networks consisting of hardware and software
HTTP - Answers Set of protocols supported by the internet hyper text transfer protocols
EHR origins - Answers Discussed since the 1970 recommended by IOM in 1991
Palm pilot - Answers 1996 first hand held device
Human genome project - Answers 2003 completed after 13 years, greatest accomplishments in
scientific history
NwHIN - Answers Nationwide Health information network in 2004 rename health exchange in 2012
sub group health way created to connect all EHR, health orgs and govt agencies in 10 years
Patients use of HIT - Answers Smartphones, web, online patient surveys, online chat and blogs, PHR,
home medicine, HIE access
Physicians and nurses use of HIT - Answers Online searches, online resources, patient web portals,
clinical decision, physician web portal, eMAR, EHR, smartphone with EHR, Telemedicine, voice
recognition software, CME, E-research, electronic billing
Support staff use of HIT - Answers Patient enrollment, electronic appointment, billing and coding,
EHR, web based credentials, web-based clearinghouse,
Public health use of HIT - Answers Incident reports, syndromic surveillance, link to all public health
departments, geographic information, telemedicine, remote reporting
Fed and state use of HIT - Answers eHealth exchange, financial support, development of standards, IT
piLot project, disease managment, pay for performance
