WGU D220 Informatics - Questions and Answers

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WGU D220 Informatics - Questions and Answers American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Authorized INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting and us... ing interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's. ARRA provides economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHRs. Admission-Transfer-Discharge (ADT) System Classified under the hospitals' administrative info system. It's one of the foundational systems that allows operational activities such as bed placement, transportation coordination, room readiness, and the general coordination of services focused on the patient's phase of movement. Tracks a patient's activities and location from admission to discharge. Analytical Science Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer 2 basic questions: What do I have? How much of it do I have? Environment, pharmacy, safety & security, fraud detection, and healthcare diagnostics. Asynchronous Applications Patient-centered and allows consumers to participate in their own care by using designated health technology to share health metrics and data with their healthcare provider via technology (remote patient-monitoring - the use of devices to capture patient data at one location and then transmit it electronically to healthcare professionals at a different location, allowing the review of data for clinical decision-making, i.e. MobileHealth). Audit Trails Software that is used for detecting security violations, performance problems, and flaws. Records activity by users and system. Goal is to improve data integrity. Audit trails are only one of the ways to ensure data integrity. An audit trail must contain the name of the user, the application triggering the audit, the workstation, the specific document, a description of the event being audited, and the date and time to determine the integrity of data. Authentication Action that verifies the authority of users to receive specified data. Barcode Medication Administration MANDATED BY FDA Benchmark The continual process of measuring services and practices against the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry. Comparing the performance of an organization or clinician to others. Big Data Very large data sets that are beyond human capability to analyze or manage without the aid of information technology. Big data is considered data originating from very large data sets that help identify patterns and trends. Big data cannot be managed without the use of technology to analyze its output. Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) Supports healthcare practitioners in making patient-care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge. CDSS is technology that provides recommendations for care and must be balanced with professional judgment, not used in place of it. Clinical Information System Software used to access client data, plan, implement, and evaluate care. May be specific to certain departments: lab, radiology, pharmacy, or particular patient populations. Provides patient centric decision-making functionality to help guide a nurse with decision-making while caring for a patient [Show More]

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