LSUS MHA 705 EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS 2024-2025
information systems (IS)
An automated system that uses computer hardware and software to record, manipulate,
store, recover, and disseminate data (that is, a system that receives and processes
input and provides output); often used inter-changeably with information technology (IT)
systems development life
cycle (SDLC)
A model used to represent the ongoing process of developing (or purchasing)
information systems
Informatics
the science of information management. A field of study concerned with the use of
tech-neology to enhance access to, and utilisation of information
information management.
The acquisition, organisation, analysis, storage, retrieval and dissemination of
information to facilitate the activities of decision-making
Healthcare informatics
The field of information science concerned with managing all aspects of health data and
information through utilising computers and computer technologies
information science
Study of nature and principles of information
APPLIED HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS
,Automated information systems applied to healthcare delivery business and work-flow
processes, including diagnosis, therapy and systems of managing health data and
information within the health care setting
CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY
Component of the
EHR that captures data. Central database focusing on clinical information
DATA TYPES
A technical category of data text, numbers, currency, date, memo and link data that a
field in a database can contain
discrete data
Data that represent separate and distinct values or observations; that is, data that
contain only finite numbers and have only specified values
Free-text data
Data that are narrative in nature
structured data
Binary, computer-readable data
Diagnostic image data
Bit-mapped images used for medical or diagnostic purposes for example, chest x-rays
or computed tomography scans
bit-mapped data
Data made up of pixels represented on a horizontal and vertical grid or matrix
raster image
A digital picture or digital information made up of pixels in a horizontal and vertical grid
or a matrix instead of lines drawn between a set of points
pixel
,A shortened term for the word picture element, which is made up of very small bits of
data or points
analog
Data or information not represented in an en-coded, computer readable format
digital
1. A data transmission type based upon data that have been binary encoded 2. A term
describing the data or information represented in an encoded computer readable
format
digital modalities
computed radiography (CR), CT,
magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
Actual audio data
sound bytes such as digital heart sounds.The processing, manipu-lation, and
presentation of sound in a computer readable form
Motion or streaming
video/frame data
cardiac catheterizations, are
made up of the digital features of film, such as fast forwarding. A medium for the
transport of moving images in a format, such as frames, which can be displayed on the
computer screen
vector graphic
A digital information that has been captured as points and connected by lines-a line is a
collection of point coordinates-or areas- shapes outlined by lines
signal tracing data
are created by recording lines drawn between a sequence of points,
accounting for the familiar electrocardiograms (ECGs),
, electroencephalograms (EEGs), and fetal heart rate (FHR)
tracings.
unstructured data
Nonbinary, human-readable data
multimedia
The combination of free-text, raster or vector graphics, sound, and motion video/frame
data
speech recognition technology
Technology that translates speech to text
Continuous speech input
The quality of speech/voice recognition technology that does not require users to pause
between words to allow the computer to distinguish between the beginnings and
endings of words
natural language processing technology
The extraction of unstructured or structured medical word data, which are then
translated into diagnostic or procedural codes for clinical and administrative
applications
Autocoding
The process of extracting and translating dictated and then transcribed free-text data
(or dictated and then computer-generated discrete data) into ICD-9-CM and CPT
evaluation and management codes for billing and coding purposes
computer-assisted coding
Terms common to the description of natural language processing technology in