Deck 18: Computers and Technology in Health Care

Question 1

Which health care function is made easier by point-of-care charting?

A) Education of health care students
B) Diagnosing an illness
C) Sending bills for services
D) Entering patient data during a home care visit

Answer 1

Entering patient data during a home care visit

Question 2

Artificial intelligence help physicians to:

A) diagnose and treat specific conditions.
B) teach health care students how to perform procedures.
C) perform surgeries from a distance.
D) perform procedures with greater accuracy.

Answer 2

diagnose and treat specific conditions.

Question 3

Only health care professionals who work in office environments or highly technical occupations are likely to use computers in their work.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which sponsor is most likely to have a website that contains current and accurate information about the link between nutrition and cancer?

A) University medical school
B) Group of cancer survivors
C) Producer of herbal remedies sold over the Internet
D) Clinic that offers alternative cancer treatments

Question 5

Most employers allow their employees to send personal email messages and conduct Internet searches as long as it does not interfere with their work.

Question 6

Documents created with word processing software can be stored for later use.

Question 7

To be computer literate means to be able to correctly use many sophisticated computer programs and applications.

Question 8

Which type of software would be the best choice for maintaining the personnel records in a large health clinic?

A) Spreadsheet
B) Database
C) Word processing
D) Application

Question 9

Information accessed through the Internet is highly reliable because the content is regulated by the government.

Question 10

Many employers today use social networking sites to screen job applicants.

Question 11

Delicate surgical procedures can be practiced before performing the actual surgery on a patient through the use of:

A) the Visible Human Project.
B) virtual reality technology.
C) robotics.
D) virtual communities.

Question 12

Professionals' emails should be written just as carefully as printed documents and letter.

Question 13

Health care professionals can use MEDLINE/PubMed to:

A) search for information among millions of references.
B) connect to the Internet.
C) check for possible drug interactions.
D) run the administrative functions in a medical office.

Question 14

Bioinformatics refers to the organization of information that enables:

A) the Food and Drug Administration to decrease the time needed for drug approvals.
B) educators to offer distance education courses to health care professionals.
C) researchers to increase scientific progress by collecting and analyzing information.
D) nurses to better coordinate patient care.

Question 15

An important result of the widespread use of computers is the elimination of repetitious tasks.

Question 16

It is not necessary to back up data on a separate device or in the cloud if your computer has a large hard drive with adequate storage space.

Question 17

The development of fiber optics has enabled dentists to:

A) fill cavities painlessly without the use of anesthesia.
B) eliminate the need for X-rays.
C) project views from inside the patient's mouth onto a screen.
D) prevent cavities in children.

Question 18

When writing a report, it is permissible to copy material from a website without citing it because the information is available for the public to use.

Question 19

Voice dictation software used for medical charting is nearly as accurate as written notes.

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a computerized database?

A) Records can be organized and sorted in many ways.
B) Mistakes are automatically corrected.
C) More than one person can access the data at the same time.
D) Useful reports can be produced.

Question 22

When a database is created, a collection of related data is called a __________.

Question 29

If an urgent care center wants to estimate the number of physician assistants it will need next year based on projected numbers of patients, it might use:

A) database software.
B) expert systems.
C) artificial intelligence.
D) electronic spreadsheet software.

Question 31

Hair-thin cables that transmit data, such as internal images of the body during surgery, are called ____ ______.

Question 35

__________ are focused light rays that can cut and remove tissue, helping to make surgical incisions cleaner and more accurate.

Question 36

Downloading from the Internet should be done with great care because doing so can transfer destructive __________ to your computer.

Question 38

The use of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986 _____ against the unauthorized access to computerized records.