WGU D033
Healthcare Information Systems Management Exam
Guide Complete Solutions Verified
1. Information System: an automated system that uses computer hardware
andsoftware to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data (that is,
a system that receives and processes input and provides output)
2. Financial applications: software applications that handle patient accounts,
bud-gets, and other financial activities
3. Mainframe computers: large computers that are used by the government
and other organizations that require speed and the ability to process large
amounts ofdata.
4. Dumb Terminals: all of the processing is performed at the server or mainfram
5. Cloud Computing: a system that operates on a computer that is owned
andmaintained by a vendor.
6. Intranet: a private information network that uses Internet technologies;
however, its servers are located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the
general publiccannot gain access to information housed within the network
,7. Health Information Exchange: the exchange of health information
electronicallybetween providers and others with the same level of interoperability.
8. Evidence-based medicine: healthcare services based on clinical methods
that have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical
studies
9. Clinical pathways: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care
planningfor specific diagnoses and treatments
10. clinical practice guidelines: provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by
healthcare practitioners to make knowledge-based decisions related to patient care
and issued by an authoritative organization such as a medical society.
11. Health Informatics: scientific discipline that is concerned with the
cognitive, information-processing, and communication tasks of healthcare practice,
education,and research, including the information science and technology to
support these tasks
12. Data Analytics: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of
drawingconclusions about that information
13. Data mining: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from
a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle
relationshipsor patterns and using those relationships to predict behaviors.
,14. dashboards: reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to
assist with strategic planning
15. descriptive statistics: set of statistical techniques used to describe data,
suchas means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations; describes the
charac-teristics of a specific group or a population
, 16. inferential statistics: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's
characteristics,
17. predictive modeling: process used to identify patterns that can be used to
predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical
data in order to predict what is likely to happen in the future.
18. certified health data analyst (CHDA): advanced certification covers data
man-agement, data analytics, and data reporting
19. Clinical Information Systems: collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical
an- cillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department
informationrelated to patient care
20. document management system: electronic method of capturing and
manag-ing documents.
21. target sheets: pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and,
ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
22. file server: large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has
alarge amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
23. abstracting and quality control workstation: workstation is used for
indexingand quality control
Healthcare Information Systems Management Exam
Guide Complete Solutions Verified
1. Information System: an automated system that uses computer hardware
andsoftware to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data (that is,
a system that receives and processes input and provides output)
2. Financial applications: software applications that handle patient accounts,
bud-gets, and other financial activities
3. Mainframe computers: large computers that are used by the government
and other organizations that require speed and the ability to process large
amounts ofdata.
4. Dumb Terminals: all of the processing is performed at the server or mainfram
5. Cloud Computing: a system that operates on a computer that is owned
andmaintained by a vendor.
6. Intranet: a private information network that uses Internet technologies;
however, its servers are located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the
general publiccannot gain access to information housed within the network
,7. Health Information Exchange: the exchange of health information
electronicallybetween providers and others with the same level of interoperability.
8. Evidence-based medicine: healthcare services based on clinical methods
that have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical
studies
9. Clinical pathways: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care
planningfor specific diagnoses and treatments
10. clinical practice guidelines: provide a detailed, step-by-step guide used by
healthcare practitioners to make knowledge-based decisions related to patient care
and issued by an authoritative organization such as a medical society.
11. Health Informatics: scientific discipline that is concerned with the
cognitive, information-processing, and communication tasks of healthcare practice,
education,and research, including the information science and technology to
support these tasks
12. Data Analytics: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of
drawingconclusions about that information
13. Data mining: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from
a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle
relationshipsor patterns and using those relationships to predict behaviors.
,14. dashboards: reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to
assist with strategic planning
15. descriptive statistics: set of statistical techniques used to describe data,
suchas means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations; describes the
charac-teristics of a specific group or a population
, 16. inferential statistics: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's
characteristics,
17. predictive modeling: process used to identify patterns that can be used to
predict the odds of a particular outcome based on the observed data. Uses historical
data in order to predict what is likely to happen in the future.
18. certified health data analyst (CHDA): advanced certification covers data
man-agement, data analytics, and data reporting
19. Clinical Information Systems: collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical
an- cillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department
informationrelated to patient care
20. document management system: electronic method of capturing and
manag-ing documents.
21. target sheets: pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and,
ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
22. file server: large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has
alarge amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
23. abstracting and quality control workstation: workstation is used for
indexingand quality control
