D220 SECTION 4 - LESSON 7:
IMPROVING PATIENT CARE USING
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DATA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
Data and information technology - ANSWER Data and information come from health information
technology in the form of reminders and alerts, decision support tools, and checklists. Data and
information also comes in the forms of benchmarks, trending information, usage reports, preference
data, and predictive modeling
The value of the HIE can only be experienced and appreciated if it is known to its users. There are several
challenges to the use of the HIE. One major challenge to embedding HIE in care practice is a lack of
awareness about HIE among clinicians.
In nursing, what area of care would benefit the most by embedding HIE in nursing practice? - ANSWER
Coordination of care
Rationale: The coordination of care can be enhanced through the use of HIEs by helping nurses
understand the root cause of frequent visits, identifying duplicate orders for tests, and maintaining
accurate medication lists.
True or False
Nurses can contribute to machine learning algorithms by (1) filling data gaps with nursing-relevant data
that provide personalized context about the patient; (2) improving data dissemination techniques; and
(3) evaluating potential value in practice. - ANSWER FALSE
Rationale: Nurses can contribute to machine learning algorithms by (1) filling data gaps with nursing-
relevant data that provide personalized context about the patient; (2) improving data preprocessing
techniques; and (3) evaluating potential value in practice.
Big data is produced as health information technology continues to grow. However, not all big data is
useful in improving nursing practice. It is essential for nurses to recognize the five properties of big data
to know if it is worth considering when looking at ways to improve nursing practice. List the five
properties of big data. - ANSWER The five properties of big data are: volume velocity variety value
veracity
, True or False
When exploring opportunities to improve the safe delivery of patient care, nurses can make use of
health information technology data through the systems engineering approach. This approach enables
the partnership of technology manufacturers and vendors with organizations to identify risks to patient
safety and promote safe health information technology integration. - ANSWER TRUE
Rationale: During the integration of technology into the organization, it is important for biomedical
engineers and health information technology experts to work together with organization members to
identify the potential for risk to the patient in the use of the technology.
Health information data gives information on care practices that were performed correctly and
appropriately as well as data on aspects of care that need improvement. Organizations first need to
establish a culture of safety so that available data can be freely reviewed and efforts toward
improvements can follow.
What is a characteristic of a culture of safety? - ANSWER An environment that provides resources for the
promotion and maintenance of safety measures.
Rationale: Providing resources focused on patient safety demonstrates the organization's commitment to
it.
True or False
The Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare refers to a subset of the internet that deals with medical
information and literature for the advancement of health information technology. - ANSWER FALSE
Rationale: The Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare refers to the collection of internet-connected
devices, including wearables, implants, skin sensors, home monitoring tools, and mHealth applications.
The IoT has the potential to connect patients and their providers in a variety of ways and has the ability
to maximize the power of big data analytics through ongoing innovation.
Connected health refers to the delivery of technology-assisted care that occurs outside the traditional
face-to-face setting between a patient and a healthcare provider. Connected health is differentiated by
two categories: synchronous and asynchronous.
What is an example of asynchronous connected health? - ANSWER Remote patient monitoring
Rationale: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a patient-centric, emerging technology that allows
patients to participate in their own care by using a designated health technology to share health metrics
and data with their healthcare provider or monitoring professional. The healthcare data are stored and
accessed on demand by the healthcare professional
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