_________________ is the science of information management.
Informatics
Informatics can be summarised by the following utterance :
_______________________________________________________ (Friedman 2009, 169).
"A person working in partnership with an information resource is 'better' than a person
unassisted"
Healthcare informatics is ________________________________________.
The field of information science concerned with managing all aspects of health data and
information by utilizing computers and computer technologies
The Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan defined
_______________________________________________________.
a number of goals, objectives, and strategies that bring together all federal efforts in
health IT in a coordinated fashion
The purpose of the Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan is to
______________________________________________________________.
guide the advancement of health IT throughout the federal government through 2012
,Today's task for informatics is to
_______________________________________________________.
design, develop, and implement computer information systems that enable healthcare
organizations to accomplish visions for providing the highest-quality care in the most
effective way
Applied healthcare informatics emphasizes the use of
______________________________________________.
computer-based applications in delivering and documenting healthcare services (AMIA
2005)
__________________________________ is the application of information technology to
functions and activities that are closely aligned with the domains of practice associated
with the health information management (HIM) profession.
Applied healthcare informatics
The clinical data repository is ________________________________________________.
part of the EHR that captures data
The automated files composing the EHR system component information systems and
technologies are made up of __________________, and the data in the files are composed
of ____________________.
different data types; different data formats
Data formats can be __________________________________.
structured or unstructured
___________________________ is discrete because its fields are predefined and limited.
,Structured data
Examples of discrete data are ________________________________________________________
coded and alphanumeric data elements in a patient's automated laboratory order,
result, or demographic or financial information system.
Free-text data, as opposed to discrete, structured data, are generated by
_____________________________, and their fields are not predefined and limited.
word processors
The format of the data contained in a patient's transcribed radiology or pathology result,
history and physical (H&P), or clinical note system using word processing technology is
___________________.
unstructured
Data embedded in unstructured text ____________________________________.
are not easily retrieved by the search engine
Examples of diagnostic image data are
_______________________________________________.
digital chest x-ray or a computed tomography (CT) scan stored in a diagnostic image
, management system
Diagnostic image data represent a type of data called ______________________________.
bit-mapped data
The format of bit-mapped data is ____________________. In other words, the image is a
raster image, the smallest unit of which is a picture element or pixel. Together hundreds
of pixels simulate the image.
unstructured
Saving each bit of the original image creates the ______________________. In other words,
the image is a __________________, the smallest unit of which is a picture element or pixel.
Together, hundreds of pixels simulate the image.
image file; raster image
A raster image is ___________________________________________________.
the smallest unit of which is a picture element or pixel
Together, hundreds of pixels simulate the __________________.
image
Some diagnostic image data are based on _____________________________, such as an
analog chest x-ray.
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