Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
- Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into a single hospital information system?
- Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems
- Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
- Patient care systems & financial management systems are incompatible with each other
- Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals & Health Care Organizations to maintain specific information for billing & accreditation purposes
- Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient records
- Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the technologist when building an integrated hospital information system?
- Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case management model
- Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departments to agree to a single care model, realigning traditional departments into a case management model
- Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized information systems, getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case management model
- Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, keeping all hospital departments within the traditional vertical structure
- Allowing all departments to retain their individual information systems, allowing all departments to have their own billing system, keeping all hospital departments separate but equal
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- The conceptual components of informatics are:
- Management, processing, & transformation
- Data, information, & paradigms
- Data, information, & knowledge
- Management, processing, & data
- Management, processing, & knowledge
- Several colleges have suggested that Wikipedia™ be banned as a resource for academic papers. Which of the following statements support that ban?
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- Wikipedia™ cannot be considered a primary source of information
- Wikipedia™ cannot be considered an authoritative source of information
- Wikipedia™ is sometimes unreliable
- Wikipedia™ allows almost anyone to edit most of its articles
- All of the above
- When would you use the word “and” in a literature search?
- When you want to eliminate citations with a certain term in the title
- When only one of multiple search terms must be in the title of the citation
- When all of multiple search terms must be in the title of the citation
- When you want to index a particular article
- When you want the abstract of the citations to be included in the literature search……………………………………………………$45
- The conceptual components of informatics are: