Deck 10: Business and Clinical Intelligence BICI

Question 1

Decision Support (DIS) and Executive Information Systems (EIS) will eventually replace BI/CI solutions.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which are requirements for BI/CI Solutions?

A) Usability
B) Actionability
C) Security
D) Scalability
E) Integrity

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Business Intelligence is generally available in "real-time."

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which is a preferred method for storing data?

A) Silos for specific "point" or niche software applications.
B) Central data repositories (CDR).

Question 5

Which functional purposes are within BI/CI solutions?

A) Analytics
B) Data Mining
C) Benchmarking
D) Reporting
E) All of the above

Question 6

Business Intelligence is the technological foundation for Clinical Intelligence.

Question 7

Health care as an industry has led the way for BI adoption even before banking, retail, and petroleum industries.

Question 8

Which HIS initiatives are competing for BI/CI adoption? Check all that apply.

A) e-Mobile
B) Internet strategies
C) International health exchanges
D) EHRs
E) ICD-10 deployment

Question 9

"DR" stands for Decision Replication.

Question 10

Clinical Intelligence is difficult in part due to reasons of subjectivity in delivering health care delivery. Which are representative of this statement?

A) Patient uniqueness
B) Providers opinionated and diverse training
C) Government's enforcement for a single medical lexicon
D) Communications challenges

Question 11

Adoption of comprehensive BI/CI has been remarkably quick.

Question 12

As a reasonable generalization "healthcare is local," but the use of data is not.

Question 13

For a given answer that is part of analytics processed within a well-constructed BI/CI solution subsequent questions and/or refined queries may propagate in an iterative cascading manner.

Question 14

Which estimate of healthcare provider adoption of data warehouses and BI/CI solutions is closest?

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%
E) 50%

Question 15

Within the pyramid graphic for the relationship of complexity for use and creation in BI/CI solutions, which has a broader audience?

A) Ad Hoc
B) KPIs
C) Custom reports

Question 16

In the history of reporting as a precursor to BI/CI solutions "canned" reports refers to mandated reporting formats from the federal government for Medicare compliance.

Question 17

Metadata characteristics include which elements?

A) Software application source identifier
B) Time and date identifier
C) Location identifier
D) Purpose identifier
E) All the above

Question 18

ETL is an acronym for Electronic Transformation Language.

Question 19

A central data repository (CRD) has which characteristics?

A) Silos data for multiple purposes.
B) Provides for replication.
C) Organizes data for multiple purposes.
D) Provides for disaster recovery.
E) All of the above.

Question 20

Prospectively, "content creators" will provide attractive career paths for those individuals who are able to format and structure data in a desired or logically deliverable design for all roles in a healthcare organization.