HOSA Health Informatics (2025/ 2026 ) | Qs & As| Grade
A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers)
Academy - ans -Higher education in general with an emphasis on the institution as
a society of scholars, scientists, and artists
Accounts payable - ans -the monies that are owed to companies such as vendors
and suppliers for items purchased on crdit
Advanced Practice Nurse - ans -Nurses educated at the graduate level and
authorized to practice as a specialist with advanced expertise in a specialty of
nursing
Adverse event - ans -an unintended and unfavorable event associated with the
provision of medical care, use of a medical product or treatment protocol
Ancillary systems - ans -software application used by patient care support
departments such as laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy
Application - ans -A software program designed to help the user to perform
specific tasks
Application service provider (ASP) - ans -A company, located remotely, that hosts
an electronic health record or departmental system solution for a healthcare
enterprise and provides access to the application via a secure network
Architecture - ans -The formal description and design of information technology
components, the relationships among them, and their implementation guide
Attributes - ans -the characteristics of properties of the components of a system.
Attributes are sued to describe a system
Availability - ans -A general term used to describe the amount of time that
computer system resources are available to users. This is usually calculated for a
one-year period
,Avatar - ans -A graphic image representing a person or other entity, usually on the
Internet or in a video game
Backcasting - ans -A technique for predicting the future by envisioning a desired
future endpoint and then working backward to determine what actives and
policies would be required to achieve that future
Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) - ans -a method for administering
medications using medication administration software, bar codes, and scanners
with the goal of reducing errors during the medication administration process
Bayesian knowledge base - ans -A knowledge base built using decision trees and
branch of statistical inference that permits the use of prior knowledge in assessing
the probability of an event in the presence of new data. For example, if a patient
has a fever and increased white blood cells, the Bayesian knowledge base
provides the probability that the patient has an infection versus another disorder
that also creates an inflammatory process
Best of breed - ans -An approach to selecting applications involving reviewing
vendors' products to determine the best for a department or setting. When this
approach is used, each department selects the "best" and the organization is
tasked with achieving interoperability among them all.
Big bang - ans -A go-live approach in which all applications or modules are
implemented at once
Big data - ans -Very large datasets
Biomedical informatics - ans -The interdisciplinary scientific field that studies and
pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for
scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to
improve human health (AMIA)
Bolt-on system - ans -A software program or application that is used in association
with a larger application to give users their full required functionality. users often
require interfaces between the primary and bolt-on system. An example is an
, application for U.S. Mail address verification used in conjunction with a billing
system
Boundary - ans -The demarcation between a system and the environment of the
system
Business continuity - ans -The process created to ensure that essential functions
and services continue during an adverse event
Business intelligence - ans -Automated tools for analyzing massive amounts of
data with the goal of improved decision making, typically at the organizational or
departmental level.
Channel - ans -A physical element that carries a message between a sender and a
receiver. Examples of channels are radio waves, fiber optic lines, and paper
Charge description master file - ans -A list of all prices for services group, (e.g.,
diagnosis-related group, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding, and Current
Procedural Terminology 4) or goods provided to patients that serves as the basis
for billing
Claims processing and management - ans -The submission of an insurance claim
or bill to a third party payer, either manually or electronically, and the follow-up
on the payment from the payer
Classification - ans -A single hierarchical terminology that aggregates data at a
prescribed level of abstraction for a particular domain
Clicker - ans -A device that is part of a classroom or audience response system
that allows realtime feedback to an instructor on, for example, comprehension of
presented material
Clinical application - ans -A software program used to perform specific tasks
supporting the clinical aspects of healthcare, for example, documentation or
orders management
A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers)
Academy - ans -Higher education in general with an emphasis on the institution as
a society of scholars, scientists, and artists
Accounts payable - ans -the monies that are owed to companies such as vendors
and suppliers for items purchased on crdit
Advanced Practice Nurse - ans -Nurses educated at the graduate level and
authorized to practice as a specialist with advanced expertise in a specialty of
nursing
Adverse event - ans -an unintended and unfavorable event associated with the
provision of medical care, use of a medical product or treatment protocol
Ancillary systems - ans -software application used by patient care support
departments such as laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy
Application - ans -A software program designed to help the user to perform
specific tasks
Application service provider (ASP) - ans -A company, located remotely, that hosts
an electronic health record or departmental system solution for a healthcare
enterprise and provides access to the application via a secure network
Architecture - ans -The formal description and design of information technology
components, the relationships among them, and their implementation guide
Attributes - ans -the characteristics of properties of the components of a system.
Attributes are sued to describe a system
Availability - ans -A general term used to describe the amount of time that
computer system resources are available to users. This is usually calculated for a
one-year period
,Avatar - ans -A graphic image representing a person or other entity, usually on the
Internet or in a video game
Backcasting - ans -A technique for predicting the future by envisioning a desired
future endpoint and then working backward to determine what actives and
policies would be required to achieve that future
Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) - ans -a method for administering
medications using medication administration software, bar codes, and scanners
with the goal of reducing errors during the medication administration process
Bayesian knowledge base - ans -A knowledge base built using decision trees and
branch of statistical inference that permits the use of prior knowledge in assessing
the probability of an event in the presence of new data. For example, if a patient
has a fever and increased white blood cells, the Bayesian knowledge base
provides the probability that the patient has an infection versus another disorder
that also creates an inflammatory process
Best of breed - ans -An approach to selecting applications involving reviewing
vendors' products to determine the best for a department or setting. When this
approach is used, each department selects the "best" and the organization is
tasked with achieving interoperability among them all.
Big bang - ans -A go-live approach in which all applications or modules are
implemented at once
Big data - ans -Very large datasets
Biomedical informatics - ans -The interdisciplinary scientific field that studies and
pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for
scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to
improve human health (AMIA)
Bolt-on system - ans -A software program or application that is used in association
with a larger application to give users their full required functionality. users often
require interfaces between the primary and bolt-on system. An example is an
, application for U.S. Mail address verification used in conjunction with a billing
system
Boundary - ans -The demarcation between a system and the environment of the
system
Business continuity - ans -The process created to ensure that essential functions
and services continue during an adverse event
Business intelligence - ans -Automated tools for analyzing massive amounts of
data with the goal of improved decision making, typically at the organizational or
departmental level.
Channel - ans -A physical element that carries a message between a sender and a
receiver. Examples of channels are radio waves, fiber optic lines, and paper
Charge description master file - ans -A list of all prices for services group, (e.g.,
diagnosis-related group, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding, and Current
Procedural Terminology 4) or goods provided to patients that serves as the basis
for billing
Claims processing and management - ans -The submission of an insurance claim
or bill to a third party payer, either manually or electronically, and the follow-up
on the payment from the payer
Classification - ans -A single hierarchical terminology that aggregates data at a
prescribed level of abstraction for a particular domain
Clicker - ans -A device that is part of a classroom or audience response system
that allows realtime feedback to an instructor on, for example, comprehension of
presented material
Clinical application - ans -A software program used to perform specific tasks
supporting the clinical aspects of healthcare, for example, documentation or
orders management
