Deck 12: What Lies Beyond the Current State of HIS Technology

Question 1

The increasing availability of technology such as mobile phones has little impact on health care.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The focus of the next phase of technology is not to learn how to capture more data but discover how to make organized sense of the data.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The future goal of health information is appropriate access to ubiquitous, personalized, specific information relevant to the situation, available to those who should have access to it, while honoring the privacy, security, and confidentiality of those whose information it is.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

eHealth is:

A) The use of e-commerce and e-business practices in health systems management
B) The delivery of health information, for health professionals and consumers, through the Internet
C) Using the power of IT to improve public health services
D) All of the above.

Question 5

The pace of eHealth is moderated in part by important patient privacy regulations.

Question 6

eHealth should be viewed as separate from the general guidelines, planning, and strategy of HIS and the HIS framework.

Question 7

Describe one international example of mHealth.

Question 8

List the four categories, as described Kumar et al, of mHealth Tools.

Question 9

HIPAA specifically addresses health care organization's use of social media platforms.

Question 10

Telemedicine is the remote delivery of clinical services.

Question 11

All except one of the following is a challenge to telemedicine and telehealth.

A) Cultural barriers.
B) Cost of providing telemedicine.
C) Too many cases with conflicting research findings.
D) Legal issues.
E) Technical challenges.

Question 12

Informatics and BI/CI are arenas of potential growth in the future of health care.

Question 13

How might eHealth and other areas of HIS lead to more emphasis on prevention over cure?

Question 14

As of March 2013, _____ of eligible physicians, providers, and hospitals had received a Meaningful Use incentive payment.

A) 11%
B) 30%
C) 44%
D) 69%

Question 15

Because of technology replacing certain positions in health care, such as reading radiology images, there will be fewer jobs in HIT in the future.

Question 16

Is "paperless" the true goal of HIS? How achievable is this?

Question 17

List three areas important to EHR data and its usefulness for research.