BC-TMH Flashcards Exam Questions And
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Telehealth - answer A broad term having to do with providing health care services from
a distance. A direct service provided from a distance to clients/patients, consultations
to other health care professionals, education related to health care to clients or other
health care professionals, and coordination of care (helping integrated physical and
behavioral health concerns to improve the outcomes for both, reducing unnecessary
readmissions, reducing medication errors, treatment errors, wrong diagnosis).
Telemental health - answer Providing psychotherapy directly to a client when the
clinician and the client are not in the same location. Telemental health and mental health
services are not separate services. It is the same service, provided by different means.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - answer A healthcare organization
characterized by a payment and care delivery model that seeks to tie provider
reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an
assigned population of patients. (Wikipedia)
Analog - answer A continuous signal where the time varying variable is represented by
another time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal where a continuous quantity
is represented by a discrete function that only takes on one of a finite number of values.
Application Service Provider (ASP) - answer An ASP hosts a variety of applications on a
central server. For a fee, customers can access the applications over secure Internet
connections or a private network. This means that they do not need to purchase, install
or maintain the software themselves; instead they rent the applications they need from
the ASP. New releases, such as software upgrades, are generally included in the price.
Asynchronous - answer Term describing store and forward transmission of medical
images and/or data because the data transfer takes place over a period of time, and
typically in separate time frames. The transmission typically does not take place
simultaneously. This is the opposite of synchronous (see below).
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - answer A telecommunications standard to
support voice, video and data communications. The mode uses asynchronous
time-division multiplexing and encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells rather than
packets or frames.
Authentication - answer A method of verifying the identity of a person sending or
receiving information using passwords, keys and other automated identifiers.
Bandwidth - answer A measure of the information carrying capacity of a
communications channel; a practical limit to the size, cost, and capability of a
,telemedicine service.
Basic Rate Interface - answer An ISDN (see below) configuration that provides two
bearer (B) channels at 64 kilobits/second (kbit/s) each and one data (D) channel at 16
kbit/s. B channels are for voice data and D channels for any combination of data,
control/signaling, and X.25 packet networking. B channels can be aggregated to
provide128 kbit/s.
Bits Per Second (bps) - answer Number of electronic data bits conveyed or processed
per unit of time.
Bluetooth Wireless - answer An industrial specification for wireless personal area
networks (PANs) that provides the means to connect and exchange information
between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and
video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.
The specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/about-bluetooth-sig.aspx).
Bridge - answer Device for linking multiple videoconferencing sites in a single
videoconference session. It is also often referred to as a multipoint control unit (MCU).
Broadband - answer Communications (e.g., broadcast television, microwave, and
satellite) capable of carrying a wide range of frequencies; refers to transmission of
signals in a frequency-modulated fashion over a segment of the total bandwidth
available, thereby permitting simultaneous transmission of several messages.
Cascading - answer Means to accommodate more videoconference participants than
using one MCU by joining another MCU into a session hosted by the primary MCU.
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) - answer Founded
in 2004 with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of health IT, it certifies
electronic health records (EHRs) using comprehensive, practical definitions of what
capabilities were needed in these systems. (http://www.cchit.org/)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - answer A federal agency within the
United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the
Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer
Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards. (Wikipedia)
Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit (CSU/DSU) - answer A digital-interface device
for connecting Data Terminal Equipment devices (DTE) (e.g., router) to a digital circuit
(e.g., T1 line). CSU connects to the network and the DSU handles the DTE interface.
Circuit Switched Network - answer A method for implementing a telecommunications
network where two nodes have a dedicated communications channel through the
network for communication, guaranteeing full bandwidth for the session.
,Class of Service (CoS) - answer Used in data and voice protocols to differentiate
payloads in the transmitted packets to help assign priorities to the data payload.
Clinical Decision Support System (CCDS) - answer Systems (usually electronically
based and interactive) that provide clinicians, staff, patients, and other individuals with
knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered and presented at
appropriate times, to enhance health and health care.
(http://healthit.ahrq.gov/images/jun09cdsreview/09_0069_ef.html)
Clinical Information System - answer Hospital-based information system designed to
collect and organize data relating exclusively to information regarding the care of a
patient rather than administrative data. .
Cloud computing - answer The use of computing resources (hardware and software)
that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes
from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure
it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user's
data, software and computation. (Wikipedia)
CODEC - answer Acronym for coder-decoder. This is the videoconferencing device that
converts analog video and audio signals to digital video and audio code and vice versa.
CODECs typically compress the digital code to conserve bandwidth on a
telecommunications path.
Compressed video - answer Video images that have been encoded using fewer bits of
information than the original dataset (either lossless or lossy) to reduce the amount of
bandwidth needed to capture the necessary information so that the information can be
sent over a network.
Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) - answer An electronic form of individual patient
information designed to provide access to complete and accurate patient data.
Data Compression - answer A method to reduce the volume of data using encoding that
results in the data having fewer bits of information than the original dataset (either
lossless or lossy) to reduce image processing, transmission times, bandwidth
, requirements, and storage requirements. Some compression techniques result in the
loss of some information while others do not, which may or may not be clinically
important.
Diagnostic Equipment (Scopes, Cameras and Other Peripheral Devices) - answer A
piece of hardware or device not part of the central computer (e.g., digitizers,
stethoscope, or camera) that can provide medical data input to or accept output from
the computer.
Digital - answer Data technology using discrete values as opposed to continuous or
analog signals.
Digital Camera (still images) - answer A camera that stores images digitally rather than
recording them on film allowing data to be downloaded to a computer system,
manipulated with a graphics program and printed or transmitted electronically. It is
typically used to take still images of a patient for dermatology, ophthalmology, and
wound care.
Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) - answer The international
standard for medical images and related information (ISO 12052). DICOM consists of a
set of protocols describing how images are identified, formatted, transmitted and
displayed that is vendor-independent. It was developed by the American College of
Radiology and the National Electronic Manufacturers Association
(http://medical.nema.org/).
Digital Signal-X Transmission Standards (DSx) - answer A series of standard digital
transmission rates or levels based on DS0, a transmission rate of 64 Kbps (i.e.,
bandwidth normally used for one telephone voice channel).
Digital Signature - answer Mathematical scheme for authenticating digital messages or
documents. Valid signatures give the recipient evidence that the message was created
by a known sender and not altered in transit.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) - answer Technologies providing internet access by
transmitting digital data over local telephone networks. The data bit rate typically is 256
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Telehealth - answer A broad term having to do with providing health care services from
a distance. A direct service provided from a distance to clients/patients, consultations
to other health care professionals, education related to health care to clients or other
health care professionals, and coordination of care (helping integrated physical and
behavioral health concerns to improve the outcomes for both, reducing unnecessary
readmissions, reducing medication errors, treatment errors, wrong diagnosis).
Telemental health - answer Providing psychotherapy directly to a client when the
clinician and the client are not in the same location. Telemental health and mental health
services are not separate services. It is the same service, provided by different means.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - answer A healthcare organization
characterized by a payment and care delivery model that seeks to tie provider
reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an
assigned population of patients. (Wikipedia)
Analog - answer A continuous signal where the time varying variable is represented by
another time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal where a continuous quantity
is represented by a discrete function that only takes on one of a finite number of values.
Application Service Provider (ASP) - answer An ASP hosts a variety of applications on a
central server. For a fee, customers can access the applications over secure Internet
connections or a private network. This means that they do not need to purchase, install
or maintain the software themselves; instead they rent the applications they need from
the ASP. New releases, such as software upgrades, are generally included in the price.
Asynchronous - answer Term describing store and forward transmission of medical
images and/or data because the data transfer takes place over a period of time, and
typically in separate time frames. The transmission typically does not take place
simultaneously. This is the opposite of synchronous (see below).
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - answer A telecommunications standard to
support voice, video and data communications. The mode uses asynchronous
time-division multiplexing and encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells rather than
packets or frames.
Authentication - answer A method of verifying the identity of a person sending or
receiving information using passwords, keys and other automated identifiers.
Bandwidth - answer A measure of the information carrying capacity of a
communications channel; a practical limit to the size, cost, and capability of a
,telemedicine service.
Basic Rate Interface - answer An ISDN (see below) configuration that provides two
bearer (B) channels at 64 kilobits/second (kbit/s) each and one data (D) channel at 16
kbit/s. B channels are for voice data and D channels for any combination of data,
control/signaling, and X.25 packet networking. B channels can be aggregated to
provide128 kbit/s.
Bits Per Second (bps) - answer Number of electronic data bits conveyed or processed
per unit of time.
Bluetooth Wireless - answer An industrial specification for wireless personal area
networks (PANs) that provides the means to connect and exchange information
between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and
video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.
The specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/about-bluetooth-sig.aspx).
Bridge - answer Device for linking multiple videoconferencing sites in a single
videoconference session. It is also often referred to as a multipoint control unit (MCU).
Broadband - answer Communications (e.g., broadcast television, microwave, and
satellite) capable of carrying a wide range of frequencies; refers to transmission of
signals in a frequency-modulated fashion over a segment of the total bandwidth
available, thereby permitting simultaneous transmission of several messages.
Cascading - answer Means to accommodate more videoconference participants than
using one MCU by joining another MCU into a session hosted by the primary MCU.
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) - answer Founded
in 2004 with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of health IT, it certifies
electronic health records (EHRs) using comprehensive, practical definitions of what
capabilities were needed in these systems. (http://www.cchit.org/)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - answer A federal agency within the
United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the
Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer
Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards. (Wikipedia)
Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit (CSU/DSU) - answer A digital-interface device
for connecting Data Terminal Equipment devices (DTE) (e.g., router) to a digital circuit
(e.g., T1 line). CSU connects to the network and the DSU handles the DTE interface.
Circuit Switched Network - answer A method for implementing a telecommunications
network where two nodes have a dedicated communications channel through the
network for communication, guaranteeing full bandwidth for the session.
,Class of Service (CoS) - answer Used in data and voice protocols to differentiate
payloads in the transmitted packets to help assign priorities to the data payload.
Clinical Decision Support System (CCDS) - answer Systems (usually electronically
based and interactive) that provide clinicians, staff, patients, and other individuals with
knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered and presented at
appropriate times, to enhance health and health care.
(http://healthit.ahrq.gov/images/jun09cdsreview/09_0069_ef.html)
Clinical Information System - answer Hospital-based information system designed to
collect and organize data relating exclusively to information regarding the care of a
patient rather than administrative data. .
Cloud computing - answer The use of computing resources (hardware and software)
that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes
from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure
it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user's
data, software and computation. (Wikipedia)
CODEC - answer Acronym for coder-decoder. This is the videoconferencing device that
converts analog video and audio signals to digital video and audio code and vice versa.
CODECs typically compress the digital code to conserve bandwidth on a
telecommunications path.
Compressed video - answer Video images that have been encoded using fewer bits of
information than the original dataset (either lossless or lossy) to reduce the amount of
bandwidth needed to capture the necessary information so that the information can be
sent over a network.
Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) - answer An electronic form of individual patient
information designed to provide access to complete and accurate patient data.
Data Compression - answer A method to reduce the volume of data using encoding that
results in the data having fewer bits of information than the original dataset (either
lossless or lossy) to reduce image processing, transmission times, bandwidth
, requirements, and storage requirements. Some compression techniques result in the
loss of some information while others do not, which may or may not be clinically
important.
Diagnostic Equipment (Scopes, Cameras and Other Peripheral Devices) - answer A
piece of hardware or device not part of the central computer (e.g., digitizers,
stethoscope, or camera) that can provide medical data input to or accept output from
the computer.
Digital - answer Data technology using discrete values as opposed to continuous or
analog signals.
Digital Camera (still images) - answer A camera that stores images digitally rather than
recording them on film allowing data to be downloaded to a computer system,
manipulated with a graphics program and printed or transmitted electronically. It is
typically used to take still images of a patient for dermatology, ophthalmology, and
wound care.
Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) - answer The international
standard for medical images and related information (ISO 12052). DICOM consists of a
set of protocols describing how images are identified, formatted, transmitted and
displayed that is vendor-independent. It was developed by the American College of
Radiology and the National Electronic Manufacturers Association
(http://medical.nema.org/).
Digital Signal-X Transmission Standards (DSx) - answer A series of standard digital
transmission rates or levels based on DS0, a transmission rate of 64 Kbps (i.e.,
bandwidth normally used for one telephone voice channel).
Digital Signature - answer Mathematical scheme for authenticating digital messages or
documents. Valid signatures give the recipient evidence that the message was created
by a known sender and not altered in transit.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) - answer Technologies providing internet access by
transmitting digital data over local telephone networks. The data bit rate typically is 256
