Health Informatics Comprehensive Review Exam
The definition of healthcare informatics is defined by several organizations. Which of
these statements would best define healthcare informatics in the understanding of
clinicians such as nurses and other professional caregivers?
An interdisciplinary professional specialty and scientific discipline that integrates the
health sciences, computer science, and information science as well as other analytic
sciences with the goal of managing and communicating data, information, knowledge,
and wisdom in providing care for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Data and information within the EHR systems provide opportunities to generate
knowledge. Healthcare providers must have an understanding of health informatics.
Which of the following statements best describes their role in knowledge generation?
The clinician supports the use of standardized languages to document patient care to
allow others such as patients and other clinicians to search the terms to understand the
assessments, diagnoses, treatment procedures, therapy, or intervention.
Information systems and applications for delivery of healthcare are addressing needs
associated with health informatics. Three essentials to explore with each of these
systems and applications would include:
purpose, functions, and internal and external structures.
Two studies have reported that if fully using electronic health records (EHRs) within
American hospitals, the volume of preventable fatal hospital-based events each year
could be reduced by 78,800 to 132,000. What were the critical considerations to
achieve such a significant improvement to patient safety?
Clinicians can document treatment completely within the HER
Health informaticians fully involved in the design, selection, and implementation
Healthcare providers who maximize their use of EHRs to care for patients
When managing the interrelationships among the stakeholders to further develop EHR
systems, health information technology (HIT) professionals need to facilitate life-cycle
change. Select the foundational health informatics knowledge HIT professionals need to
consider?
Healthcare providers advocate for their involvement in selecting systems that directly
and indirectly impact patient care.
Research design involves a balance of internal validity (the validity of the causal
inference that the treatment is the "true" cause of the outcome) and external validity (the
validity that the causal inference can be generalized to other subjects, forms of the
treatment, measures of the outcome, practitioners, and settings). The weaknesses of
practice-based evidence observational designs include: