CHIM 305 TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025-2026
what is health informatics? - Answers - application of info tech to optimize the info
management function within an org using:
1. info management
2. info tech
- study of nature and principles of info and its applications within all aspects of healthcare
delivery and promotion
- Digital health Canada (COACH - Canada's Health Informatics Association) - intersection of
clinical, IM/IT and management practices to achieve better health
- involve using info tech to help create and use health-related data, info and knowledge
- enables and supports safe, efficient, effective health services for Canadians
- professionals develop and deploy info and systems solutions
- use computer science, info management, cognitive science, comm, epidemiology,
management science, health science
what does successful adoption of EHR require? - Answers 1. acceptance and change
management strategies
2. demonstration of benefits and funding
3. project management approaches
4. health policy objectives and an intervention plan
5. legal requirements esp for privacy and security
what are ACHI's four objectives for the government? - Answers 1. develop CAN vision that
identifies essential needs
2. generate an agenda to implement components that fulfill vital needs
3. suggest collaborative mechanisms to integrate all provinces and territories systems into one
4. identify challenges facing use of eHealth and recommend solutions for overcoming the
challenges
what's nursing informatics? - Answers - integrates nursing science, computer science, info
science = manage and comm data, info, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice
- support patients, nurses and other providers in their decision making in all roles and settings
,- using info tech and structures to organize data, info and knowledge
what's medical informatics? - Answers - science of analysis, documentation, steering, control
and synthesis of info processes within the health care delivery system, especially in classical
enviro and medical practice
what's health informatics in an international view? - Answers - systematic processing of data,
info and knowledge in medicine and healthcare
- computational and informational aspects of processes and structures, applicable to any
clinical or managerial discipline in health sector remotely or not
- delivered by operational health practitioners, academic researchers, educators, scientists and
technologists in operational, commercial, academic domains
what are three areas of health informatics? - Answers 1. deliver of care, health education and
health promotion activities
2. management of info and application of tech
3. organizational settings of healthcare
what does effective info management include? - Answers - processes to ensure right info is
available to right people, within and without an organization, at right time and place, for right
price
- ensures info is appropriate, reliable, valid
- accessible
- timely
- cost effective
- covers Data-Info-Knowledge-Wisdom pyramid
- emphasizes power and value of info
- includes data modelling and standards
- coding, classification, nomenclature
- data analysis and stat info
- consider methods of systems analysis and design
- include info sources
- consider managing info resources
,what is info tech? - Answers - technical components to process and comm data
- computers, voice, data, image sensing and comm devices, graphics devices, multimedia
storage
- telephones, fax, mobiles
- computer languages
- software (op system, database, apps)
- comm tech
- local area networks
- radio frequency devices
- cloud computing
- virtualization
- virtual private networks
- wide area networks
- physical topologies or broadcast topologies and connections
- intranets and internet
- telemedicine
- infusion/diffusion theories
- effectiveness metrics
- security and confidentiality
- standards
- documentation
what areas do healthcare organizations management cover? - Answers - organization theory
and models
- comm theories
- management processes and practices
- org development and change management
, - health economics and fiscal management
- resource allocation models
- individual and group decision support systems
- ethics and legislation
- privacy and security of both info and systems
what is the desired outcome for health informatics? - Answers - have greater understanding of
our stakeholders, patients, clients, population, and system to enable us to change and improve
on the way we deliver care
1. starts with automation of manual processes (same work, more efficiency) - can stop here
- but it gets better when we achieve greater efficiencies and make better decisions based on
evidence and best practice = greater wisdom and knowledge and transform how we do
business
2. managing info - restructure work processes, doing things differently
3. transformation - working smarter to make better clinical decisions
what are critical success factors to achieve transformation - Answers - understand nature of
different clinical practices, impacts, consequences for use of tech
- understand nature of relationship b/w clinical staff and management, which can predispose
clinical staff to oppose introduction of clinical info system
- recognize wider imperatives and establish appropriate targets
- choose robust, transferable, extendable, proven tech that doesn't inhibit future developments
- take into account research and eval of info development, like term and classification systems
- relate tech to imperatives
- recognize clinical imperative need to treat more patients at least as well, in less time, using
new systems
- create affordable and practice tech financial plan from high level strategy
- involve future users in such a way that their input is meaningful to determine system
requirements and to gain subsequent ownership
- prepare and develop individuals and org to make effective use of info tech
- implement in orderly and timely way
what is health informatics? - Answers - application of info tech to optimize the info
management function within an org using:
1. info management
2. info tech
- study of nature and principles of info and its applications within all aspects of healthcare
delivery and promotion
- Digital health Canada (COACH - Canada's Health Informatics Association) - intersection of
clinical, IM/IT and management practices to achieve better health
- involve using info tech to help create and use health-related data, info and knowledge
- enables and supports safe, efficient, effective health services for Canadians
- professionals develop and deploy info and systems solutions
- use computer science, info management, cognitive science, comm, epidemiology,
management science, health science
what does successful adoption of EHR require? - Answers 1. acceptance and change
management strategies
2. demonstration of benefits and funding
3. project management approaches
4. health policy objectives and an intervention plan
5. legal requirements esp for privacy and security
what are ACHI's four objectives for the government? - Answers 1. develop CAN vision that
identifies essential needs
2. generate an agenda to implement components that fulfill vital needs
3. suggest collaborative mechanisms to integrate all provinces and territories systems into one
4. identify challenges facing use of eHealth and recommend solutions for overcoming the
challenges
what's nursing informatics? - Answers - integrates nursing science, computer science, info
science = manage and comm data, info, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice
- support patients, nurses and other providers in their decision making in all roles and settings
,- using info tech and structures to organize data, info and knowledge
what's medical informatics? - Answers - science of analysis, documentation, steering, control
and synthesis of info processes within the health care delivery system, especially in classical
enviro and medical practice
what's health informatics in an international view? - Answers - systematic processing of data,
info and knowledge in medicine and healthcare
- computational and informational aspects of processes and structures, applicable to any
clinical or managerial discipline in health sector remotely or not
- delivered by operational health practitioners, academic researchers, educators, scientists and
technologists in operational, commercial, academic domains
what are three areas of health informatics? - Answers 1. deliver of care, health education and
health promotion activities
2. management of info and application of tech
3. organizational settings of healthcare
what does effective info management include? - Answers - processes to ensure right info is
available to right people, within and without an organization, at right time and place, for right
price
- ensures info is appropriate, reliable, valid
- accessible
- timely
- cost effective
- covers Data-Info-Knowledge-Wisdom pyramid
- emphasizes power and value of info
- includes data modelling and standards
- coding, classification, nomenclature
- data analysis and stat info
- consider methods of systems analysis and design
- include info sources
- consider managing info resources
,what is info tech? - Answers - technical components to process and comm data
- computers, voice, data, image sensing and comm devices, graphics devices, multimedia
storage
- telephones, fax, mobiles
- computer languages
- software (op system, database, apps)
- comm tech
- local area networks
- radio frequency devices
- cloud computing
- virtualization
- virtual private networks
- wide area networks
- physical topologies or broadcast topologies and connections
- intranets and internet
- telemedicine
- infusion/diffusion theories
- effectiveness metrics
- security and confidentiality
- standards
- documentation
what areas do healthcare organizations management cover? - Answers - organization theory
and models
- comm theories
- management processes and practices
- org development and change management
, - health economics and fiscal management
- resource allocation models
- individual and group decision support systems
- ethics and legislation
- privacy and security of both info and systems
what is the desired outcome for health informatics? - Answers - have greater understanding of
our stakeholders, patients, clients, population, and system to enable us to change and improve
on the way we deliver care
1. starts with automation of manual processes (same work, more efficiency) - can stop here
- but it gets better when we achieve greater efficiencies and make better decisions based on
evidence and best practice = greater wisdom and knowledge and transform how we do
business
2. managing info - restructure work processes, doing things differently
3. transformation - working smarter to make better clinical decisions
what are critical success factors to achieve transformation - Answers - understand nature of
different clinical practices, impacts, consequences for use of tech
- understand nature of relationship b/w clinical staff and management, which can predispose
clinical staff to oppose introduction of clinical info system
- recognize wider imperatives and establish appropriate targets
- choose robust, transferable, extendable, proven tech that doesn't inhibit future developments
- take into account research and eval of info development, like term and classification systems
- relate tech to imperatives
- recognize clinical imperative need to treat more patients at least as well, in less time, using
new systems
- create affordable and practice tech financial plan from high level strategy
- involve future users in such a way that their input is meaningful to determine system
requirements and to gain subsequent ownership
- prepare and develop individuals and org to make effective use of info tech
- implement in orderly and timely way
