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HIT 220 Ch. 3 & 4
Intro to Computer Systems for HIT
Question | Answer |
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The location from which data originates | Data sources |
The process by which data are collected | Data collection |
A department of the DHHS that advances the development, adoption, and implementation of HIT standards | Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) |
An organization that manages the local deployment of systems promoting and facilitating the exchange of healthcare data within a national information network | Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) |
The seamless exchange of health information across disparate organizations | health information exchanges |
Interoperable information infrastructure that links various healthcare information systems together allowing physicians, healthcare institutions, and other entities nationwide to share clinical information privately and securely | National health information network |
The cabinet-level federal agency that oversees all the health- and human-services-related activities of the federal government and administers federal regulations | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) |
A public policy advisory board that recommends policy to the National Center for Health Statistics and other health-related federal programs | National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) |
An infrastructure proposed by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics that is a set of technologies, standards, applications, systems, values, and laws that support all facets of provider healthcare, individual health, and public health | National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) |
A private or government agency involved in the development of healthcare informatics standards at a national or international level | Standards development organization (SDO) |
An organization that governs standards in many aspects of public and private business; developer of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel | American National Standards Institute (ANSI) |
A subgroup of Accreditation Standards Committee X12 that has been involved in developing electronic data interchange standards for billing transactions | Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) |
An international organization of healthcare professionals dedicated to creating standards for the exchange, management, and integration of electronic information | Health Level 7 (HL7) |
format that is used primarily for processing of financial data, such as claims billing | ASC X12 format |
the clear guidelines for the acceptable values for specified data fields | Data content standards |
These data elements are collected to capture a minimum amount of demographic and admission-specific information on all inpatient discharges; a data collection tool | Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) |
Health information exchanges (HIEs) are also called | Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) |
The public advisory agency that supports the DHHS in standards development is the | National Committe on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) |
The data standards group that has been approved by SDO and operates under the DHHS is | Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) |
A central database that focuses on clinical information | Clinical data repository (CDR) |
A database that makes it possible to access data from multiple databases and combine the results into a single query and reporting interface | Data warehouse |
The process of extracting information from a database and then quantifying and filtering discrete, structured data | Data mining |
A list of recommended data elements with uniform definitions that are relevant for a particular use | Data set |
Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set | UHDDS |
Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set | UACDS |
Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems | DEEDS |
Essential Medical Data Set - part of NHI infrastructure | EMDS |
Outcomes and Assessment Information Set | OASIS |
Minimum Data Set for Long Term Care | MDS LTC |
Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set | HEDIS |
by the Joint Commissions | ORYX |
a uniform data set of elements for ambulatory care that capture a minimum amount of data on patients and outpatient services provided | UACDS |
a data collection set designed for hospital-based emergency departments that was designed to collect uniform information on emergency department's services at a hospital | DEEDS |
a data set that is similar to DEEDS but was developed by the National Information Infrastructure Health Information Network | EMDS |
a data set developed for home care patients that helps to trend and analyze the outcomes of home care patient through utilizing a standardized data capture tool used for patients who receive home health services that are covered by Medicare or Medicaid | OASIS |
a long-term care data set that captures demographic and clinical information on patients receiving nursing home care | MDS-LTC |
a standardized set of performance measures designed to allow purchasers and consumers to compare the performance of managed-care plans | HEDIS |
a performance improvement initiative of the Joint Commission used to examine a healthcare organization's performance with that of others | ORYX |
a patient-identifying directory referencing all patients related to an organization and which also serves as a link to the patient record or information, facilitates patient identification, and assists in maintaining a patient record from birth to death | Master patient index (MPI) |
the data are correct | Data accuracy |
a method to detect whether elements of the patient's health record are missing | Quantitative analysis |
a detailed review of the patient's health record for the quality of the documentation contained therein | Qualitative analysis |
volunteers his or her time as part of a hospital committee to review health records for various reasons | Physician advisor (PA) |
Review by like professionals established according to an organization's medical staff bylaws; allows medical professionals to candidly critique and criticize the work of their colleagues without fear of reprisal | Peer review |
The division of DHHS responsible for developing healthcare policy in the US and for administering the Medicare program and the federal portion of the Medicaid program | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) |
the common data set that is overseen by the government agency that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid services | OASIS |
a missing signature from an entry in a health record would be an example of | Quantitative analysis |
Who should know of an ICD code change of the healthcare practitioners who are reviewing this record during the patient stay? | In-house coder |
A managerial process that ensures the integrity of an organization's data during data collection, application, warehousing, and analysis | AHIMA Data Quality Model |
the property that data are true to the source and have not been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner; the extent to which data are complete, accurate, consistent, and timely | data integrity |
preprogrammed definitions of each data field set up within the software application. If any data are different from what has been preprogrammed, an edit message appears on the screen | Edit check |
triggered when the mouse is placed on top of a data field | hot spot |
What should be done with a data field that has no information that is known or can be entered into this field | Type in "NA" |
With computerized health records, what is most affected with indexing errors? | MPI |
If every field on the computer screen is a "required field", what would this affect the most? | Time |
the stability, repeatability, or precision of data | Data reliability |
a tool that is used to show movement of people, materials, paperwork within a work setting | flowchart |
an effective instrument for planning and working with large detailed projects | Gantt chart |
uses numbers and letters to help evaluate the time needed to perform tasks or events and the activities in order | Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart |
The common graph used for movement of people or flow of work | Flowchart |
A graph that is used to denote time and activities for complex projects | PERT chart |
The repeatability of a measure is used for data quality and is called | reliability |
Data that is not backed up by facts and figures | Subjective data |
a collection of data carefully organized to be of value to the user | database |
manipulates and controls the data stored within the database | database management system (DBMS) |
a search for data that meet specific criteria the user requests within subsets of the database | query |
when the primary key of one table is included in another table | foreign key |
breaking the data elements into the level of detail desired by the facility | normalization |
the specific meaning of a healthcare-related data element | Data definition |
a unique patient identifier used in a healthcare database | primary key |
The best choice for field type used for the medical record number is | auto-numbering |
The term used to describe breaking data elements into the level of detail needed to retrieve the data is | normalization |
In a database, which term describes how data about an individual patient are stored? | Row |
The term used to describe a key from one table that is located in another table is | foreign key |
What type of field is used to enter numbers that cannot be calculated? | Alphanumeric |
translates how data are stored in the computer from the physical view to one that is understandable by the user | data definition language (DDL) |
accesses, makes changes to, and retrieves data from the database | data manipulation language (DML) |
allow the user to use common English words to tell the database which data are needed | natural language queries |
a query method where the user only has to point and click to choose tables and fields contained in the database | Query by example (QBE) |
used to query data; uses simple commands such as "select" to control the query | Structured query language (SQL) |
What is the term used to describe a search that uses commands such as "and" and "not"? | Boolean search |
What component of the DBMS controls security? | Data definition language |
The term used to describe how a data element is displayed is: | Mask |
The type of query that uses wildcards and Boolean searches is: | Query by example |
The title of a data element is recorded in the: | Data dictionary |
the design of the database needed for organization | Data modeling |
a common type of data modeling that focuses on relationships between entitities | entity-relationship diagram |
designed to create many of the diagrams and other tools used in the data model | Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) software |
a diagram of how data flows within the database | data flow diagram |
The software used to generate data flow diagrams and other data modeling tools is called: | CASE |
The data model that defines the requirement of the database is: | conceptual data model |
In a database the concept of patient is an example of an: | entity |
The entity-relationship diagram is used in which type of data model? | Physical data model |
a fact about an entity | An attribute |
The most common database model developed on the premise that all data are stored in tables with relationships among the tables | relational database model |
a model that structures the data in broad groupings that can be further subdivided into more narrowly defined groups or detailed entitites | hierarchical model |
uses pointers to connect data; the nodes are called owners and members rather than parent and child nodes | network database model |
a database model that handles text, images, audio, video and other objects | object-oriented database |
a database that stores patient-specific data from many different systems | data repository |
stores data from many different systems and includes historical and current information | data warehouse |
a central database that focuses on clinical information | clinical data repository (CDR) |
the process of finding unknown dependencies in large data sets using automated means | data mining |
a computing technique for summarizing, consolidating, viewing, and applying formula to and synthesizing data according to multiple dimensions | online analytical processing (OLAP) |
a programming language that was designed to be used on the Internet | Java |
Which of the following is a technique used in data mining? | Fuzzy logic |
The database model that uses a table as the basis for the design is: | relational |
The concept of parent/child is used in which database model? | Hierarchical |
Which term is a true statement about the data warehouse? | The data warehouse is updated periodically |
A programming language designed to be used over the Internet that is used in an object-oriented database model is called: | Java |