Study Guide Questions and Answers (Verified Questions)
1. Health informatics: is a multidisciplinary field that is concerned with the
cogni-tive,
information-processing, and communication tasks of the healthcare practice,
education, and research, including the information science and technology to
support these tasks?
2. Data statistics: used to make conclusions about a population
3. Health Informatics: The field that uses technology to manipulate and use
infor-mation to improve
healthcare
4. financial applications: first ISs used in healthcare
5. Data analytics tool: dashboard
6. data integrity tool: required field
7. Identify the field type that is BEST for entering gender and health
recordnumber: radio buttons
8. Identify the BEST field type for service.: drop down
9. Authorship: The identification of the individual who recorded a progress note
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,inthe health
record
10. Data Cleansing: Checking for missing information and outliers
11. documentation integrity issues includes: amendments
12. What data quality characteristic ensures that data supports the
reason forthe
collection of the data?: definition
13. when amending a health record: Any documentation deleted should be
retriev-able if needed.
14. edit checks ensure that: The format is appropriate for the data element
15. natural language query: term used when queries are limited by words such
as"and"?
16. The user entered the social security number as 123456789 and
it wasdisplayed
as 123-45-6789.: mask
17. a database model the concept of patient is an example of a(n): entity
18. What tool would one use to illustrate how data moves through the IS?
dataflow diagram
19. An attribute is .: a fact about an entity
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, 20. The database model that uses a table as the basis for the design is:
rela-tional
21. What should be created in order to show how users will use the IS?:
usecase
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