Deck 16: Health IT: Concepts, Implementation, and Impact

Question 1

The hope is that increased use of health IS/IT will increase:

A) accountability.
B) revenue.
C) compliance.
D) trust.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Comparing IT use in a regional children's hospital to IT use in a business that sells tires, you would expect:

A) more complex terminology in the hospital.
B) less funding in the hospital.
C) more resistance in the business.
D) better interoperability in the hospital.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The basic idea behind precision medicine is that genetic and molecular changes in a patient:

A) directly cause most diseases.
B) are all due to environmental factors.
C) predict lifespan precisely.
D) map health and illness.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

How many data sources are used in a typical PM application?

A) One
B) Two or three from a single provider
C) A few from multiple providers
D) Many

Question 5

If the rate of digital health funding continues to rise at the same pace, by 2026 it will be approximately how much?

A) $1 billion
B) $10 billion
C) $100 billion
D) $1 trillion

Question 6

What is the digital health commercialization gap?

A) Potential minus actual benefits
B) Urban compared to rural benefits
C) First versus third world implementation
D) Male versus female use

Question 7

What has been a constant in health care over the last several decades?

A) Less regulation
B) Rising costs
C) Younger patients
D) More nurses

Question 8

What do EHR help to prevent in medical records?

A) Needless duplication
B) Excess costs
C) Privacy issues
D) The need for more regulation

Question 9

If you found that your organization's CPOE system was part of a larger IT system, what would that larger system be?

A) EMR
B) PP
C) EHR
D) CDS

Question 10

Vision and expectations for health IT should come from whom?

A) Board of Directors
B) Government
C) Senior management
D) Surveyed employees

Question 11

In the United States, what body creates national healthcare strategic plans?

A) White House
B) Congress
C) ONC
D) OMB

Question 12

SISP would be a failure if what occurred?

A) It left strategy and health IT unaligned.
B) It was rejected by nurses.
C) Patients were reluctant to use IT services.
D) The ER was disconnected from servers.

Question 13

Lederer and Sithi's SISP dimensions should be studied in which order?

A) There is no fixed order.
B) Alphabetically
C) As suggested by their creators
D) As directed by the state accreditor

Question 14

Which of the following levels of organization are involved with public health?

A) Just community
B) Families
C) Populations through the whole globe
D) Individuals and local communities

Question 15

In terms of public health, assessment includes which of the following?

A) Monitoring community health
B) Providing free medicines
C) Performing a census
D) Education of the public

Question 16

What first must be overcome to perform global public health work?

A) Government regulations
B) Funding issues
C) Fears
D) Borders

Question 17

If you worked for a body participating in a global health effort fighting diseases, what might you most likely do?

A) Volunteer as an OB nurse
B) Poll your local community
C) Lobby Congress
D) Surveil epidemics

Question 18

In implementing health IT, proposal evaluation comes after what stage?

A) Initial conceptualization
B) Upkeep
C) RFP request
D) Final planning

Question 19

What should be implemented when evaluating proposals related to health IT in a research hospital?

A) Benchmarks
B) Polls of employees
C) Government review
D) Insurer conferences

Question 20

To prove your abilities as a health IT professional, you might obtain which of the following credentials?

A) CPHIMS
B) CME
C) PhD
D) CDS

Question 21

The HIMSS has approximately how many members?

A) 15,000
B) 25,000
C) 70,000
D) 90,000

Question 22

Which of the following regulatory bodies least affects health systems providers?

A) HHS
B) FTC
C) FCC
D) DHS

Question 23

Which of the following is least important for modelling the human cognitive process?

A) Logic
B) Mathematical symbols
C) Semantic networks
D) 32-bit chips

Question 24

Which member of the AI family uses a branching tree to simulate human thought?

A) NN
B) k-NN
C) DT
D) SVM

Question 25

What will continue to drive increases in the use of e-health?

A) Aging population
B) Increasing income
C) More free time
D) More nursing care available

Question 26

While globalization has been going on for some time, it began to be most publicized during the:

A) 1600s.
B) 1800s.
C) 1920s.
D) 1990s.

Question 27

"-omics" implies large-scale study.

Question 28

If you want to work for a digital health innovator, you have to be able to prove that you can work on agile teams.

Question 29

CRM is about how a supplier relates to physicians.

Question 30

A company using CRM should first carefully study the internal communications processes of a large research hospital before actually starting to serve it.

Question 31

ERP seeks to break silos that reduce intra-organizational communication.

Question 32

If you help a medical practice get all of its IT work and data flow moving through PeopleSoft, you have done ERP.

Question 33

Without EHR, the growth of digital health data would probably be at least 8% less per year.

Question 34

Data analytics is a key part of modern medicine.

Question 35

If a physician has accidentally ordered a test that is irrelevant for the current patient, this may be caught by CPOE.

Question 36

If you want to know where a drug came from and through whose hands it passed in the hospital, read the drug pedigree.

Question 37

Humans cannot perfectly memorize all needed medical information for treating patients.

Question 38

EHR have opened wide horizons for secondary medical data analysis.

Question 39

Making a predictive system using DM-ML is an automated process if your hospital has at least 5 years of EHR on hand.

Question 40

The first step in the framework for making a predictive system using big data is data pre-processing.

Question 41

Initial conceptualization can be as simple as wanting to copy useful and efficient procedures from a sister facility.

Question 42

It would have first been possible to talk about global trade around 1200 CE.

Question 43

Innovation maturity has critical effects on the adoption of IT solutions in health care.

Question 44

In 1980, a company trying to use computer services to innovate in health care received little help from government regulators.

Question 45

BDA requires siloed collection and archiving of data to avoid cross-contamination of data.

Question 46

When drugs are used, this is called the ______ Process.

Question 47

Seventy-five percent of hospitals currently use ______ for prescriptions.

Question 48

Implementing health IT requires ______ well-tested guidelines.

Question 49

Issues involving individuals' learning ______ can hold up implementation of health IT.

Question 50

Health IT can help to greatly ______ processes which were done manually in the past.