Deck 6: Information Technology in Pharmacy

Question 1

The application of information technology to biology is called ________.

Answer 1

bioinformatics

Question 2

________ is one experimental technology used to develop drugs to shut off disease-causing genes.

Answer 2

Antisense technology

Question 3

________ (PDUFA) requires drug companies to pay fees to support the drug review process.

A) Prescription Drug User Fees Act
B) Prescription Drug and Food Act
C) Prescription Drug Understanding and Food Act
D) None of the above

Answer 3

Prescription Drug User Fees Act

Question 4

The ________ Project was "an . . . effort to understand the hereditary instructions that make each of us unique. The goal is to find the location of the 100,000 or so human genes and to read the entire genetic script. . . ."

A) International Gene
B) National Gene Mapping
C) Human Genome
D) None of the above

Question 5

________ sees the human body as a collection of molecules and seeks to understand and treat disease in terms of these molecules.

A) Bioinformatics
B) Medical computing
C) Biotechnology
D) None of the above

Question 6

________ (CPOE) can lower prescription errors.

A) Computerized physician order entry system
B) Computer pharmacy order e-mail system
C) Computer and physician e-mail system
D) None of the above

Question 7

Centralized computerized pharmacies identify medications by their ________.

A) color
B) shape
C) density
D) barcode

Question 8

________ errors typically occur when a patient changes status-that is, is admitted to, moved within, or released from a hospital.

A) Medication reconciliation
B) Surgical
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above

Question 9

________ cells are cells that can develop into different types of body cells; theoretically, they can repair the body.

A) Stem
B) Developmental
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above

Question 10

________ (RFID) tags include an antenna, a decoder to interpret data, and the tag that includes information. The antenna sends signals. When the tag detects the signal, it sends back information. The tags can be used to keep track of anything including medications.

A) Response frequency identification
B) Radio pharmacy identification
C) Radio frequency identification
D) None of the above

Question 11

The ________ Project is an international project seeking to create mathematical models of human organs.

A) Human Model
B) Human Physical
C) Human Physiome
D) None of the above

Question 12

________ involves using a computer, a network connection, and a drug-dispensing unit to allow patients to obtain drugs outside of a traditional pharmacy, at, for example, a doctor's office or clinic.

A) Telepharmacy
B) Phone pharmacy
C) Computer pharmacy
D) None of the above

Question 13

In the United States, the ________ oversees the safety and efficacy of new medications.

A) Federal Drug Administration
B) Food and Drug Administration
C) Federal Safety Administration
D) None of the above

Question 14

Developing drugs by design requires mapping the structure and creating a three-dimensional graphical model of the target molecule. This is called ________ drug design.

A) reasonable
B) rational
C) graphical
D) None of the above

Question 15

The application of information technology to biology is called ________. It seeks to organize biological data into databases.

A) IT informatics
B) drug informatics
C) database informatics
D) bioinformatics

Question 16

________ sees the human body as a collection of molecules and seeks to understand and treat disease in terms of these molecules.

Question 17

Developing drugs by ________ requires mapping the structure and creating a three-dimensional graphical model of the target molecule.

Question 18

The ________, sponsored in the United States by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, began in 1990 and involved hundreds of scientists all over the world. It was an effort to understand the hereditary instructions that make each of us unique.

Question 19

Some medications can currently be delivered on an implanted ________ that is surgically implanted in a patient and releases the drug or drugs.

A) barcode
B) chip
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above

Question 20

Computer warning systems can be used to prevent ________ (ADEs).

A) any deviant event
B) adverse drug events
C) any drug eventuality
D) None of the above

Question 21

Some medications can currently be delivered on an implanted ________.

Question 22

An automated hospital pharmacy presupposes the use of ________ to identify drugs.

Question 23

Computers have helped develop drugs for ________, Alzheimer disease, and hypertension.

Question 24

Some computerized hospital pharmacies are using ________ dispensing of drugs-a decentralized automated system.

Question 25

The ________ has created a virtual heart using mathematical equations to simulate the processes of the heart.

Question 26

________ is a process that cells use to turn off genes. The attempt at developing drugs based on this process is in its infancy.

Question 27

________ are cells that can develop into different kinds of cells.

Question 28

________ involves using a computer, a network connection, and a drug-dispensing unit to allow patients to obtain drugs outside of a traditional pharmacy setting.

Question 29

________ involves identifying the most accurate list of a patient's medications.

Question 30

Computer warning systems can be used to prevent ________ drug events (ADEs).