Deck 10: The Role of Informatics in Public Health

Question 1

Public health informatics relies on what kind of data?

A) Patient Reports
B) Electronic Health Records
C) Social Media Data
D) Health Information Records

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to the CDC, which essential activity in public health involves monitoring the status of community health?

A) Assessment
B) Policy development
C) Assurance
D) Regulation

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the CDC, policy development includes which of the following?

A) Addressing community health issues
B) Diagnosing community health risks
C) Providing education
D) Providing healthcare services

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to the CDC, assurance includes which of the following?

A) Assuring a competent healthcare workforce
B) Diagnosing community health risks
C) Monitoring the status of community health
D) Catalyzing community partnerships

Question 5

HEDIS measures are required by what percentage of health plans?

A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 60%
D) 90%

Question 6

If you wanted to compare your health plan with others using health datasets, you would turn to which tool?

A) ACA
B) HITECH
C) HEDIS
D) NCQA

Question 7

Which of the following is not commonly recorded in disease registries?

A) Duration
B) Treatment outcome
C) Medicine used
D) Incidence

Question 8

The CHORDS system operates multiple registries in:

A) Colorado.
B) Connecticut.
C) Central Washington.
D) Canada.

Question 9

Taking illegal drugs would be assessed by which survey?

A) CDSS
B) BRFSS
C) NHNAES
D) HRQOL

Question 10

HRQOL includes data on which of the following topics?

A) Healthy days
B) Drug use
C) High-risk employment
D) High-risk sexual activity

Question 11

Which of the following is run by the federal government?

A) CHORDS
B) EHR
C) PHIN
D) HIE

Question 12

Unlike EMR, EHR require:

A) current disease data.
B) patient name.
C) patient payment.
D) interoperability.

Question 13

Public health work will probably become more intersectoral in the future.

Question 14

Global health work is usually more interdisciplinary than public health work in a single country.

Question 15

Informatics can be used to spot nonobvious disease trends during a pandemic.

Question 16

If systems work as they are designed to work, a dengue outbreak in Ecuador would quickly be identified by WHO.

Question 17

HL7 may someday be used to connect data between Uganda and South Africa during an Ebola outbreak.

Question 18

EMR have a larger scope, but worse security, than EHR.

Question 19

HL7 is an EHR transport standard.

Question 20

EHR can help to identify patients who are at risk for a chronic disease.

Question 21

LH7 messages are written in plain English.

Question 22

It makes sense to use L7 messages when surgeons record data that goes directly to billing clerks.

Question 23

Predicting whether a patient will get diabetes is less critical than predicting whether that patient will contract the flu.

Question 24

Disease can quickly move from one country to another due to cross-border _________.

Question 25

Global health requires collaboration between or among _________.

Question 26

Briefly describe the difference between data, information, and knowledge and provide examples of each.

Question 27

What is the distinct role of informatics in public health? For example, how and why is it distinguishable from clinical informatics?

Question 28

How would you describe the difference between public and population health?

Question 29

What are some of the common data frameworks for electronic health data and what are their purposes?