Deck 17: Exploring the Ideals and Challenges in Digital Health IT Ecosystems

Question 1

The overall ideal in creating digital health IT ecosystems is to:

A) reduce costs.
B) optimize data flow and sharing.
C) protect privacy.
D) increase available testing.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In an information-sharing culture, if you have information, you have:

A) power.
B) access.
C) connections.
D) responsibility.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The nation that leads in which of the following areas can be a leader in precision medicine?

A) Funding
B) Bioinformatics
C) Population
D) Infant mortality

Answer 3

B

Question 4

At what sort of timeline in the health of an individual does PM look?

A) Long term, including health
B) Short term, immediate illness
C) Medium term, including recovery
D) Very short term, acute cases only

Question 5

Which of the following is not a guaranteed benefit of digital health solutions?

A) Enhancing care
B) Improving clinical outcomes
C) Preventing medical errors
D) Reducing costs

Question 6

Which of the following is a contributor to the commercialization gap in health IT?

A) Patient fears
B) Reimbursements
C) Government regulation
D) Cost

Question 7

Which of the following is not part of the Triple Aim of Health Care?

A) Improved patient care experience
B) Improved population health
C) Reduced costs
D) More IT health literacy

Question 8

Patient-centric care would involve which of the following approaches?

A) Providing a patient with acceptable choices
B) Making choices for the patient for simplicity
C) Limiting choices for physician convenience
D) Allowing family members to make choices

Question 9

What is a hospital doing if it creates an IT system with a wide range of choices based on extensive surveys of current and past patients?

A) Neighborhood care
B) Patient-centric care
C) Optimized care
D) Friendly care

Question 10

A CPOE must be interoperable with which other system at a community hospital?

A) ACA
B) RIS
C) CME
D) IT-based

Question 11

Which system is used by a surgeon who asks for a patient to be given more morphine post-surgery by using an app on his smart phone?

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

Question 12

A strategic plan would be considered too long if it runs more than:

A) 1 year.
B) 2 years.
C) 3 years.
D) 5 years.

Question 13

Hospital items that automatically report to a central database are part of which of the following?

A) Consumables
B) IoT
C) Cloud hosting
D) Servers

Question 14

Which of the following falls outside the normal dimension for analysis of SA?

A) Current business systems
B) Organizational systems
C) Government systems
D) Health IT

Question 15

The third phase of Lederer and Sithi's SISP process is:

A) planning.
B) analyzing.
C) selecting.
D) conceiving.

Question 16

DM-ML has been used to help diagnose which of the following diseases?

A) Anxiety disorder
B) Heart disease
C) Depression
D) Infertility

Question 17

Which of the following was the best classifier of cardiovascular disease prediction?

A) SVM
B) DT
C) ANNs
D) RIPPER

Question 18

Which of the following demonstrates a main focus of public health?

A) A county board sets health policy.
B) A company adds sugar to its products.
C) An advertising firm promotes better gas mileage.
D) A family decides to eat more fish.

Question 19

How do EMR differ from EHR?

A) EMR are interoperable.
B) EMR are promoted by the HITECH Act.
C) EMR are free to patients.
D) EMR are simpler.

Question 20

EHR are most useful for looking at trends in which of the following?

A) Populations
B) Individuals at one time
C) Populations and individuals over time
D) Families over time

Question 21

Which body in a hospital should be involved in less-concrete aspects of IT implementation?

A) ER staff
B) Ethics board
C) Billing clerks
D) Surgeons

Question 22

How should minor issues encountered during implementation of health IT be handled?

A) Carefully, as they may actually be major.
B) Ignore them.
C) Leave for a last review.
D) Delegate to clerks.

Question 23

When should end-users be involved in the implementation of health IT?

A) In initial planning
B) At the end
C) Throughout
D) Never

Question 24

Change can be unsettling, so how should changes in health IT be introduced to users?

A) By administrative fiat
B) Gradually and continuously
C) Via a manual
D) In a process-ending email

Question 25

At what point in history were the most difficult issues with health data privacy encountered?

A) Ancient Greece
B) Ancient Rome
C) Victorian England
D) The present

Question 26

PM largely focuses on treatment to the exclusion of prevention, leaving that for other programs.

Question 27

EHR implementation has led to a very large increase in the amount of digital health data available.

Question 28

The accumulation of digital data is growing faster in manufacturing than in health care.

Question 29

Data can become information when appropriately processed.

Question 30

An HMIS process processes, provides, and publicizes data.

Question 31

Supply chain management in IT in a small, rural hospital has to do with obtaining enough medical supplies in a timely manner.

Question 32

SCM stands for supply chain monitoring.

Question 33

Per the text, the size of the Marion Area Health System means that problems of interoperability will affect SCM efforts.

Question 34

Telemedicine began with nurses.

Question 35

The HITECH Act helps to promote IT in pharmacy.

Question 36

TIGER is an example of a health IT competency.

Question 37

HHS offers the CPHIMS certification for professionals.

Question 38

Privacy and confidentiality are related. but non-identical terms having to do with the safety of patient data.

Question 39

NLP can be used to break social media into analyzable elements.

Question 40

Propositional logic is a symbolic AI model.

Question 41

If you have ever posted a review of a doctor online, and you live in Canada, you have probably used Zocdoc.

Question 42

Globalization began around 1650 in Asia.

Question 43

Globalization is regulated by bodies such as the UN and the U.S. Congress.

Question 44

Increasing longevity around the globe creates pressure on healthcare services.

Question 45

BDA is being used to decide how and where to deploy digital and non-digital healthcare resources.

Question 46

Since the 1970s, pharmacy has used automation and ______.

Question 47

Nationwide health IT infrastructure was funded by the HITECH Act in ______.

Question 48

When data are classified by key features, this is called _____ engineering.

Question 49

Using a computer to comb through large health datasets is called _____ mining.

Question 50

Public health concerns where people _______, learn, work, and play.