HCA 416 - MIDTERM REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED BY
EXPERT
Informatics
The use of technology to acquire, manage, maintain, and use information for decisions
that needs to be made in a cost efficient manner
Health Informatics
The field of information science concerned with management of all aspects of health
data and information through the application of computers and computer technologies
Health Information Technology
HIT stands for __ ___ ____.
intensive
Healthcare is an information-___ process. It is one of the most information ____ sectors
in our economy.
1. history
2. Health
3. medical
4. Treatment
High Quality Care relies on:
,1. Careful documentation of each patient's medical ___
2. ___ Status
3. Current ___ conditions
4. ___ plans
1. Strategic
2. patient
Financial information is essential for:
1. ____ planning
2. Efficient operational support of ___ care process
1. Current
2. Secure
3. administrative
Management of healthcare organizations requires:
1. Reliable, Accurate, ___, ____
2. Relevant clinical and ____ information
Data
These are raw figures collected by organizations
Information
Data that have been processed and analyzed in an intelligent way so the results are
directly useful to clinicians and managers
Knowledge
,The use of information and what you know
1. costs
2. evidence
3. organizational
3 overriding factors are driving change in healthcare:
1. healthcare ____
2. ____ based management
3. ____ change
1. grow
2. trillion
Healthcare costs:
1. healthcare costs continue to ___ unchecked
2. national health spending reaching 2 ___ in 2005 and consumed 16% of GDP
1. information
2. organizational
Evidence Based Management:
1. Making decisions that relies more on ____ has now become part of the culture of
healthcare organizations
, 2. The new culture relies heavily on ______ information systematically gathered, stored,
analyzed and reported by health informatics professionals
1. quality
2. accomodate
Organizational Change:
1. Healthcare markets continues to change as they face ongoing efforts to manage
costs, ___, and access
2. As health care organizations adapt, health care information technology will be
required to ___ these changing needs accordingly - managed care systems
patient
Hospitals began to automate selected administrative operations such as:
1. payroll
2. ___ accounting
Computer-aided diagnosis
CAD stands for ____.
programmers
Computer-aided diagnosis:
These systems devloped by analyst and _____.
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED BY
EXPERT
Informatics
The use of technology to acquire, manage, maintain, and use information for decisions
that needs to be made in a cost efficient manner
Health Informatics
The field of information science concerned with management of all aspects of health
data and information through the application of computers and computer technologies
Health Information Technology
HIT stands for __ ___ ____.
intensive
Healthcare is an information-___ process. It is one of the most information ____ sectors
in our economy.
1. history
2. Health
3. medical
4. Treatment
High Quality Care relies on:
,1. Careful documentation of each patient's medical ___
2. ___ Status
3. Current ___ conditions
4. ___ plans
1. Strategic
2. patient
Financial information is essential for:
1. ____ planning
2. Efficient operational support of ___ care process
1. Current
2. Secure
3. administrative
Management of healthcare organizations requires:
1. Reliable, Accurate, ___, ____
2. Relevant clinical and ____ information
Data
These are raw figures collected by organizations
Information
Data that have been processed and analyzed in an intelligent way so the results are
directly useful to clinicians and managers
Knowledge
,The use of information and what you know
1. costs
2. evidence
3. organizational
3 overriding factors are driving change in healthcare:
1. healthcare ____
2. ____ based management
3. ____ change
1. grow
2. trillion
Healthcare costs:
1. healthcare costs continue to ___ unchecked
2. national health spending reaching 2 ___ in 2005 and consumed 16% of GDP
1. information
2. organizational
Evidence Based Management:
1. Making decisions that relies more on ____ has now become part of the culture of
healthcare organizations
, 2. The new culture relies heavily on ______ information systematically gathered, stored,
analyzed and reported by health informatics professionals
1. quality
2. accomodate
Organizational Change:
1. Healthcare markets continues to change as they face ongoing efforts to manage
costs, ___, and access
2. As health care organizations adapt, health care information technology will be
required to ___ these changing needs accordingly - managed care systems
patient
Hospitals began to automate selected administrative operations such as:
1. payroll
2. ___ accounting
Computer-aided diagnosis
CAD stands for ____.
programmers
Computer-aided diagnosis:
These systems devloped by analyst and _____.
