I. Glossary.
1. Evidence-based Medicine: Strategy to integrate clinical expertise and scientific evidence to improve patient care.
Chapter 1, Power Point Slide 6.
2. Evidence-based Management: Useful method in managerial decision-making that relies on information that has been systematically gathered, stored, analyzed and reported.
Chapter 2, Power Point Slide 14.
3. HIPAA: A 1996 law that allowed individuals to maintain health insurance when they changed jobs, and established standards for electronic healthcare transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.
Chapter 3, Power Point Slide 6.
4. Chief Information Officer (CIO): A member of the executive management team in charge of the health information technology team leadership.
Chapter 4, Power Point Slides 2-3.
5. Data Standardization: A method of system integration that will be vital in the future and eases exchange of information within and outside organizations.
Chapter 5, Power Point Slide 5.
6. Configuration Inconsistency: An example of unplanned work that hinders training, and involves inconsistencies in user applications, platforms and configuration.
Chapter 7, Power Point Slide 4.
7. Incident Management: The process by which solutions are found to “trouble calls”.
Chapter 7, Power Point Slide 6.
8. Request for Proposal (RFP): A type of formal request that lets vendors know that the organization would like to receive a proposal on a specific product.
Chapter 8, Power Point Slide 8.
II. Questions:
1. What is the main objective of Evidence-based Medicine?
a) Increase the number of individual publications.
b) Avoid changes in public health policies.
c) Improve patient care.
d) Maintain treatment protocols.
Chapter 1, Power Point Slide 6.
Answer: c.
2. On what relies Evidence-based Management?
a) On healthcare workers.
b) On the Health Information Technician.
c) On communications.
d) On systematically gathered, stored, analyzed, and reported information.
Chapter 2, Power Point Slide 14.
Answer: d.
3. Select the right choice regarding HIPAA:
a) It is a Health Information Technology Organization.
b) It allowed people to keep their health insurance when they changed jobs.
c) It forced people to change health insurance when they changed jobs.
d) It was established in 2009.
Chapter 3, Power Point Slide 6.
Answer: b.
4. The CIO is in charge of:
a) The HIT team leadership.
b) Transcribing Electronic Medical Records.
c) Implementing strategies for organizational improvement.
d) Coordinating the medical staff.
Chapter 4, Power Point Slides 2-3.
Answer: a.
5. Select the correct choice about Data Standardization:
a) It is an obsolete method of system integration.
b) It hinders the exchange of information.
c) It is a method for encrypting data.
d) It eases the exchange of information.
Chapter 5, Power Point Slide 5.
Answer: a.
6. Configuration inconsistency:
a) Provides solutions to ‘trouble calls’.
b) Hinders training.
c) Is an example of planned work.
d) Is a critical element of every HIT Organization.
Chapter 7, Power Point Slide 4.
Answer: b.
7. Incident management:
a) Is a critical element of every HIT Organization.
b) Provides solutions to ‘trouble calls’.
c) Is a characteristic of IT service delivery.
d) Was formerly known as the ‘disaster recovery’ or ‘business continuity planning’.
Chapter 7, Power Point Slide 6.
Answer: b.
8. The Request for proposal:
a) Is a type of formal request that allows vendors to know that the organization would like to receive a proposal on a specific product.
b) Is a type of informal request that allows vendors to know that the organization would like to receive a proposal on a specific product.
c) Is a type of formal request that allows organizations to know that vendors would like to receive a proposal on a specific product.
d) Is a type of informal request that allows organizations to know that the vendors would like to receive a proposal on a specific product.
Chapter 8, Power Point Slide 8.
Answer: a.
