Deck 1: Emerging Perspectives in Health Information Systemstechnologies Health Isit

Question 1

A health IS/IT system would be deficient if it failed to:

A) report data to the government.
B) aggregate data.
C) calculate costs.
D) correct medical decisions.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following has most clearly forced the growth of health IS/IT in the United States?

A) Malpractice suits
B) Decreased cost of tests
C) Embedded measuring devices
D) EHRs

Answer 2

D

Question 3

It can be fairly said that big data is key for medical staff dealing with what kind of situations?

A) Increasingly litigious
B) Less funded
C) Increasingly risky
D) Less understood

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In today's legal and regulatory climate, which of the following best describes how IS/IT systems for birth centers should share data on the same patient among providers?

A) Randomized
B) Open
C) Double blind
D) Seamless

Question 5

In a research hospital, who is the most important person to keep in mind in designing an HDSS?

A) Nurse
B) Billing clerk
C) Chief administrator
D) Phlebotomist

Question 6

In implementing health informatics in a county-wide set of health clinics, the trickiest aspect will probably be:

A) achieving interoperability.
B) getting nurses to use the system.
C) avoiding government fines.
D) affordability.

Question 7

When working on the part of a health IT system that allows doctors to create orders for medicines, you are working on:

A) EKG.
B) CDSS.
C) CPOE.
D) CRM

Question 8

If a nursing unit repeatedly lacks enough iodine for sterilizing wounds, there has been a failure of:

A) HDSS.
B) ERP.
C) CPOE.
D) SCM.

Question 9

EHRs are mostly about doing what?

A) Satisfying insurance demands
B) Collecting patient data over time
C) Preventing government fines
D) Maintaining accreditation

Question 10

Which of the following criteria was added to the EHR definition in 2015?

A) Ethnicity
B) Number of live births
C) Smoking status
D) Contact information

Question 11

Which major component of health IS/IT is involved in a decision to let different community hospitals in a suburban county chose their own computer systems?

A) Content and Data
B) Infrastructure
C) Data Analytics
D) Platform/Interface

Question 12

Simplifying the user interface for orders of painkillers would most affect:

A) EHRs.
B) CPOE.
C) HDSS.
D) EKG.

Question 13

An information-sharing culture should promote high levels of:

A) trust.
B) integrity.
C) compliance.
D) satisfaction.

Question 14

Good health data can be partial.

Question 15

Reliable data on a patient's surgical history should be available in all relevant parts of an IS/IT system.

Question 16

If two patients with similar names can be confused in a health IT system, there has been a failure of EKG.

Question 17

Clinical datasets are very much like financial datasets, in that they generally come from the work of one health provider per patient.

Question 18

A patient has a clinical dataset that includes a surgeon's opinion that an undetected psychological issue may be exacerbating health problems. Such a dataset is seriously defective.

Question 19

A community hospital should run a 6-month trial of a new IS system, which is based on the system of a nearby research hospital, to best determine which elements should be involved in the system's final version.

Question 20

The Platform/Interface Component of health IS/IT connects IT professionals and medical practitioners.

Question 21

As data become more complex, OLAP tools become more important.

Question 22

Infrastructure in health IS/IT includes both hardware and software.

Question 23

The Philips-Samsung Initiative involves three kind of computer systems.

Question 24

The pressure to use health informatics is coming from the push for greater _________.

Question 25

The overall environment in which IS/IT is done in health care is the _________.

Question 26

What are emergent perspectives of health IS/IT?

Question 27

Why is it difficult to integrate IT and medicine? Discuss the need for an integrative perspective for managing health IS/IT.

Question 28

List the five major components of a health IS/IT system. Discuss which component deserves the most attention in today's health IS/IT environment and why. Provide specific examples of each component in the context of your work.

Question 29

If you were the Chief Information Officer, which of the four types of health IS/IT cultures would you pursue and why?

Question 30

What is the concept of a digital health ecosystem? What significance and impact does such a concept have on the transformation of healthcare services delivery systems in the United States, and other developed and developing countries?