Deck 8: Understanding Health Informatics

Question 1

Health informatics is the first level in the HIS Conceptual Model.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The field of health informatics:

A) Is aimed at improving, redesigning, and informing care.
B) Creates a better understanding of the best interface between humans and computers.
C) Enhances and deploys knowledge in the areas of health, medicine, organization, and population-based outcomes.
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

As defined by the NIH, list the four categories that comprise biomedical informatics.

Answer 3

Bioinformatics, imaging informatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics.

Question 4

Informatics is under the umbrella of primary use of data pulled from EHR systems.

Question 5

Informatics only refers to clinical and health processes: it has no impact on the business or administrative side of health care.

Question 6

In the view of the HIS Planning Framework as it relates to informatics, patient engagement, clinical workflow design, and mHealth are in Quadrant I.

Question 7

Which is not a step on the informatics continuum?

A) Hypothesis
B) Data
C) Information
D) Knowledge

Question 8

In terms of clinical support, more information is always better.

Question 9

List the Five Rights of Clinical Decision Support.

Question 10

Which of the following is not among the Five Rights of Health Information Management?

A) Right data
B) Right code
C) Right route
D) Right person
E) Right time

Question 11

Sources of data used for health informatics include:

A) HIS systems from all four Quadrants of the HIS Planning Framework.
B) Direct observations captured in logs or EHRs.
C) Payers and research organizations.
D) Websites and mobile devices.
E) All of the above.

Question 12

Give two examples of how the practice of informatics helps build good data management.

Question 13

Informatics may emphasize key performance indicators (KPIs).

Question 14

Informatics for each clinical discipline-such as nursing informatics-must be based on the key workflows of each discipline.

Question 15

Public health informatics includes capabilities that:

A) Monitor the success of specific physicians.
B) Identify health trends and incidence of illness.
C) Regulate hospital HIS policies.
D) All of the above.