HEALTH INFORMATICS
Which organization has been the leader in promoting information technology to decrease
medical errors?
- Institute of Medicine
Select factors that might help merge bioinformatics with health informatics
- Incorporation of genetic information into the electronic health record
What is the most common degree pursued in health informatics
- Masters Which one of the following is NOT a barrier to the adoption of health information
technology, Governmental support
The Leapfrog Group promotes which one of the following to improve medical care and patient
safety
- Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Which government agencies/departments have been involved with medical quality and
information technology?
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
In the Institute of Medicine's second report which of the following were promoted to improve
healthcare
- Information technology infrastructure Electronic medical records with clinical decision
support Web based personal health records
Moore's Law pertains to which of the following concepts
- The number of transistors in a computer chip doubles every 1.5 years What is information
brokerage, Bidirectional sharing of information
,Which one of the following is NOT a driving force for the adoption of health information
technology?
- Improved Joint Commission scored Which of the following represents healthcare knowledge,
HIV infection leads to opportunistic infections
Which of the following statements is true
- Vocabularies help convert data to information
Which of the following statements is true
- Computer science tends to deal with data
Which of the following represents a datum
- 14
Select one the main reasons health informatics is difficult
- Data are vague, imprecise and inconsistent
Which of the following can help convert information into knowledge
- Clinical data warehouses
Select the most likely source of data for a clinical data warehouse
- Electronic health records
Which of the following can be facilitated by clinical data warehouses
- Quality measurements Comparative effectiveness research Population health Disease
management
Which of the following represents healthcare information
, Elevated fasting blood sugar and HbA1c proving diabetes
Select one of the main reasons health IT fails
- We are data rich but information poor
Why did medical ethics and the Nuremberg Code evolve from the Nuremberg Trials?
- Because German physicians were involved in medical experiments
There is a standard informed consent form used by most countries. True or False
- False
A breach in ethics is always associated with breaking the law. True or False
- False
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was terminated for which of the following reasons
- It was discovered by the press
The IMIA Code of Ethics reviews ethical principles and rules for individuals, professionals and
institutions
- True
Which one of the following statements pertaining to MedlinePlus is false?
- It has no tutorials
Which one of the following is not a feature of most patient web portals?
- Family genealogy
Which organization has been the leader in promoting information technology to decrease
medical errors?
- Institute of Medicine
Select factors that might help merge bioinformatics with health informatics
- Incorporation of genetic information into the electronic health record
What is the most common degree pursued in health informatics
- Masters Which one of the following is NOT a barrier to the adoption of health information
technology, Governmental support
The Leapfrog Group promotes which one of the following to improve medical care and patient
safety
- Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Which government agencies/departments have been involved with medical quality and
information technology?
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
In the Institute of Medicine's second report which of the following were promoted to improve
healthcare
- Information technology infrastructure Electronic medical records with clinical decision
support Web based personal health records
Moore's Law pertains to which of the following concepts
- The number of transistors in a computer chip doubles every 1.5 years What is information
brokerage, Bidirectional sharing of information
,Which one of the following is NOT a driving force for the adoption of health information
technology?
- Improved Joint Commission scored Which of the following represents healthcare knowledge,
HIV infection leads to opportunistic infections
Which of the following statements is true
- Vocabularies help convert data to information
Which of the following statements is true
- Computer science tends to deal with data
Which of the following represents a datum
- 14
Select one the main reasons health informatics is difficult
- Data are vague, imprecise and inconsistent
Which of the following can help convert information into knowledge
- Clinical data warehouses
Select the most likely source of data for a clinical data warehouse
- Electronic health records
Which of the following can be facilitated by clinical data warehouses
- Quality measurements Comparative effectiveness research Population health Disease
management
Which of the following represents healthcare information
, Elevated fasting blood sugar and HbA1c proving diabetes
Select one of the main reasons health IT fails
- We are data rich but information poor
Why did medical ethics and the Nuremberg Code evolve from the Nuremberg Trials?
- Because German physicians were involved in medical experiments
There is a standard informed consent form used by most countries. True or False
- False
A breach in ethics is always associated with breaking the law. True or False
- False
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was terminated for which of the following reasons
- It was discovered by the press
The IMIA Code of Ethics reviews ethical principles and rules for individuals, professionals and
institutions
- True
Which one of the following statements pertaining to MedlinePlus is false?
- It has no tutorials
Which one of the following is not a feature of most patient web portals?
- Family genealogy
