Continuity of Care Record (CCD)
✓ Technical informatics standards that provides a snapshot of person current
health to a provider who does not have access to person's health record.
CDSS (Clinical Decision Support System)
✓ Designed to help the healthcare providers to make knowledge-based clinical
decisions. e.g. allergy alert, drug-to-drug interactions.
✓ the data that has been interpreted.
Data
✓ is the collections of facts, numbers and characters that are gathered according to
some perceived need for analysis.
Wisdom
✓ using knowledge and experience to manage and solve problems.
alarm fatigue
✓ Occurs when nurses become desensitized to patient care alarms and then miss
or delay response to an alarm
Health Information Technology (HIT)
✓ Information systems and other information technology used to record, monitor,
and deliver patient care as well as perform managerial and organizational
functions
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER)
✓ formed in 2004 to advance nurses competencies related to informatics.
Ergonomics
✓ The scientific study of work and space including details that impacts productivity
and health.
Informatics
✓ is the science and art of turning data into information.
, Electronic Health Record (EHR)
✓ EHR is a digital version of a patient paper chart. EHR is a real-time patient-
centered record that makes information available instantly and securely to
authorized users.
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ACT)
✓ Also known as the Kennedy Kassebaum Bill, it is the first legislation to protect
automatic client records and to mandate all electronic transactions include only
HIPAA compliant codes.
Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
✓ produced evidence-making healthcare safer, improving quality, accessibility, and
accountability.
Data Integrity
✓ Ability to collect, store and retrieve correct, complete and current data so that
data are available to authorized users when needed.
Integration
✓ the process by which 2 different information system are able to exchange data in
a way that it is seamless to end user.
Standard Terminologies
✓ Structured, controlled language developed according to terminologies guideline
and approved by authoritative body.
Phising
✓ deceptive method used to steal sensitive information via the internet.
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
✓ a process by which a health care provider directly enters orders for patient care
into the hospital information system
User Interface
✓ allows human and computer to cooperatively perform task and specific goals.