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Information System - Answer: an automated system that uses computer hardware and
software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that
receives and processes input and provides output)
Financial Applications - Answer: software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers - Answer: large computers that are used by the government and
other organizations that require speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
Dumb Terminals - Answer: all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing - Answer: a system that operates on a computer that is owned and
maintained by a vendor.
Intranet - Answer: a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however,
its servers are located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot
gain access to information housed within the network
Health Information Exchange - Answer: the exchange of health information electronically
between providers and others with the same level of interoperability.
Evidence-based medicine - Answer: healthcare services based on clinical methods that
have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways - Answer: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning
for specific diagnoses and treatments
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,Clinical practice guidelines - Answer: 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.
Health Informatics - Answer: 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
Data Analytics - Answer: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing
conclusions about that information
Data mining - Answer: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a
database for the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or
patterns and using those relationships to predict behaviors.
Dashboards - Answer: reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to
assist with strategic planning
Descriptive statistics - Answer: set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as
means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations; describes the characteristics of a
specific group or a population
Inferential statistics - Answer: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make
generalizations about a population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's
characteristics,
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, Predictive modeling - Answer: 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.
Certified health data analyst (CHDA) - Answer: advanced certification covers data
management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems - Answer: collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical
ancillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department information
related to patient care
Document management system - Answer: electronic method of capturing and managing
documents.
Target sheets - Answer: pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and,
ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
File server - Answer: large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has a large
amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
Abstracting and quality control workstation - Answer: workstation is used for indexing and
quality control
Backscanning - Answer: process of scanning past health records into the DMS so there is
an existing database of patient information
Symbiology - Answer: format; for barcodes it is Code 39, also known as Code 3 of 9
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Information System - Answer: an automated system that uses computer hardware and
software to record, manipulate, store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that
receives and processes input and provides output)
Financial Applications - Answer: software applications that handle patient accounts,
budgets, and other financial activities
Mainframe computers - Answer: large computers that are used by the government and
other organizations that require speed and the ability to process large amounts of data.
Dumb Terminals - Answer: all of the processing is performed at the server or mainframe
Cloud Computing - Answer: a system that operates on a computer that is owned and
maintained by a vendor.
Intranet - Answer: a private information network that uses Internet technologies; however,
its servers are located inside a firewall or security barrier so that the general public cannot
gain access to information housed within the network
Health Information Exchange - Answer: the exchange of health information electronically
between providers and others with the same level of interoperability.
Evidence-based medicine - Answer: healthcare services based on clinical methods that
have been thoroughly tested through controlled, peer-reviewed biomedical studies
Clinical pathways - Answer: a tool designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning
for specific diagnoses and treatments
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,Clinical practice guidelines - Answer: 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.
Health Informatics - Answer: 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
Data Analytics - Answer: the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing
conclusions about that information
Data mining - Answer: process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a
database for the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or
patterns and using those relationships to predict behaviors.
Dashboards - Answer: reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to
assist with strategic planning
Descriptive statistics - Answer: set of statistical techniques used to describe data, such as
means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations; describes the characteristics of a
specific group or a population
Inferential statistics - Answer: set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make
generalizations about a population's characteristics on the basis of a sample's
characteristics,
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, Predictive modeling - Answer: 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.
Certified health data analyst (CHDA) - Answer: advanced certification covers data
management, data analytics, and data reporting
Clinical Information Systems - Answer: collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical
ancillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department information
related to patient care
Document management system - Answer: electronic method of capturing and managing
documents.
Target sheets - Answer: pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and,
ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow
File server - Answer: large PC or other computer that is extremely powerful and has a large
amount of memory and magnetic hard drive
Abstracting and quality control workstation - Answer: workstation is used for indexing and
quality control
Backscanning - Answer: process of scanning past health records into the DMS so there is
an existing database of patient information
Symbiology - Answer: format; for barcodes it is Code 39, also known as Code 3 of 9
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