WGU D220 Informatics
Data cleansing/scrubbing - ✔️✔️A process that weeds out and fixes or discards
inconsistent, incorrect, or incomplete information
Data Governance - ✔️✔️refers to the overall management of the availability, usability,
integrity, and security of company data
Data Integrity - ✔️✔️The correctness of data after processing, storage or transmission.
Ability to store, retrieve, correct and complete data are available to authorized users
Data Mining - ✔️✔️the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and
relationships among data for classification and prediction using software.
Data Analysis - ✔️✔️processing of data that identifies trends and patterns of
relationships
Data Warehousing - ✔️✔️Powerful method of managing and analyzing data
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) - ✔️✔️Transmits digital
imaging
(DICOM & HL7 support standardization in health care data
Big Data - ✔️✔️a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and
unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of information technology
Bioinformatics - ✔️✔️application of mathematics and computer science to store,
retrieve, and analyze biological data
Biometrics - ✔️✔️the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as
a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
Business Continuity Plan - ✔️✔️A plan for how an organization will recover and restore
partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a
disaster or extended disruption
Business Intelligence - ✔️✔️Information collected from multiple sources such as
suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making
Change Control Board (CCB) - ✔️✔️A committee that evaluates the worthiness of a
proposed change and either approves or rejects the proposed change.
,Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - ✔️✔️The senior manager (usually a registered nurse
with advanced education and extensive experience) responsible for administering
patient care services
Clinical Care Classification (CCC) - ✔️✔️"Two interrelated taxonomies, the CCC of
Nursing Diagnoses and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions and Actions,
that provide a standardized framework for documenting patient care in hospitals, home
health agencies, ambulatory care clinics, and other healthcare settings"
CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) - ✔️✔️An order entry and decision
support system that allows direct entry of orders and immediately shared w/ others
Change Management - ✔️✔️The process, tools and techniques that help people
implement changes to achieve a desired outcome. (Supports the adoption of a
medication Administration System)
Change Control - ✔️✔️Helps to prioritize limited resources and ensures system
standards are upheld.
Connected health - ✔️✔️a model of health care delivery using technology to provide
services including information and education.
Technology assisted healthcare is delivered between at least 2 points involving either
asynchronous or synchronous exchange.
Consumer Health Informatics - ✔️✔️Use of electronic info & communication to improve
medical outcomes & healthcare decision making from pt perspective.
Patient view and structures and process that enable consumer to manage their own
AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - ✔️✔️Produced evidence
making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability
Asynchoronous Applications - ✔️✔️No contact with patient for data collection. EX:
Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data w/
providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
Administrative Information System - ✔️✔️can include registration and scheduling;
tracking through admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling;
financial or accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human resources;
quality assurance; and contract management functions.
Affordable Care Act - ✔️✔️law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address
cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the
Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.
, Alarm Fatique - ✔️✔️Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or
delaying their response to the alarm.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - ✔️✔️**Authorized INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for adopting &
using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and promote
economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3) To provide
investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological
advances in science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmental
protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To
stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions
in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
ANA (American Nurses Association) - ✔️✔️Professional organization for all RNs.
Concerned with licensure, collective bargaining and education
Analytics - ✔️✔️A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative
analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive
decisions and actions.
Audit trail - ✔️✔️a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when
information was accessed, and whether any information was changed
Authentication - ✔️✔️A method for confirming users' identities
Authorization - ✔️✔️The process of giving someone permission to do or have
something
Barcode Scanning Technology - ✔️✔️Scans drug and patients wristband to verify
medication order, inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin
care.
Clinical Research Informatics - ✔️✔️Discovery and management of new knowledge
pertinent to health and disease from clinical trials via secondary data use.
C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture) - ✔️✔️Allows interoperability of
health information exchange between to hospitals.
21st Century Cures Act - ✔️✔️designed to help accelerate medical product
development and bring new innovations and advances to patients who need them faster
and more efficiently.
