HLTH 1000 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 100% Correct
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Interoperability - ANSWER - The ability of two or more systems to exchange health
information.
Medical Informatics - ANSWER - Interdisciplinary science that relates to healthcare
knowledge and its many applications on a computer.
E-Prescribing - ANSWER - The use of electronic software to communicate with
pharmacies and send prescribing information, taking the place of writing a
prescription by hand and physically giving it to a patient.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - ANSWER - The purposes of this
act include the following: To preserve and create jobs and promote economic
recovery, to assist those most impacted by the recession, to provide investments
needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in
science and health, to invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other
infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits, and to stabilize state
and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in
essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) - ANSWER - 2010; Also known as
"Obamacare," the act extended healthcare insurance to some 30 million Americans,
marking a major step toward achieving the century-old goal of providing universal
healthcare coverage.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) - ANSWER -
Established privacy and security rules for EHR. Its goal was to make health
insurance portable from one job to another while also being secure and keeping
individual's records private.
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) -
ANSWER - Incentivized the usage of EHRS (Electronic Health Records) and its
, technology in the United States to promote a national health information network to
increase patient care and lower costs.
Why is interoperability important? - ANSWER - It allows the for the exchange of
health information with providers and payers. Patients have many providers that
would need to send EHRs (Electronic Health Records) back and forth. Having
nationwide interoperability allows for increased efficiency amongst all the providers
and better quality of life whether it be improved care from the clinic side or reduced
strain from the patient side.
Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) -
ANSWER - Its purpose is to promote a national health information technology
infrastructure and look over that its development is well.
What is some administrative application of computers? - ANSWER - They are used
for a variety of things such as billing, processing insurance, and managing data
digitally. They are the basis of which EHR (Electronic Health Records) are based off
of.
Obstacles to EHR in the US? - ANSWER - It introduces new kinds of errors. For
example, one person's information may be split across 20 different screens which
slows down the ability to find knowledge about them. Information is also susceptible
to being lost to computer crashes.
Computer Information Systems - ANSWER - -Pharmacy Information Systems
-Nursing Information Systems
-Laboratory Information Systems
-Radiology Information Systems
-Financial Information Systems
-Clinical Information Systems
-Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
Bucket Billing - ANSWER - A practice records a claim and applies it to a charge. The
EOB from the first insurer goes to a second insurer. The secondary insurer writes a
check and another EOB (or ERA). After the response with a check from the
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