LSUS MHA 705 EXAM WITH
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Information systems (IS) - Accurate Answers✔✔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) - Accurate Answers✔✔A model used to represent the
ongoing process of developing (or purchasing) information systems
Informatics - Accurate Answers✔✔the science of information
management.A field of study that focuses on the use of tech-nology to
improve access to, and utilization of, information
Information management. - Accurate Answers✔✔The acquisition,
organization, analysis, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of
information to support decision-making activities
Healthcare informatics - Accurate Answers✔✔the field of information
science concerned with the management
Of all aspects of health data and information through
,The application of computers and computer technologies.The field of
information science concerned with the management of all aspects of
health data and information through the application of computers and
computer technologies
Information science - Accurate Answers✔✔The study of the nature and
principles of information.
Applied healthcare informatics - Accurate Answers✔✔Automated
information systems applied to healthcare delivery business and work-
flow processes, including the diagnosis, therapy, and systems of
managing health data and information within the health-care setting
Clinical data repository - Accurate Answers✔✔a component of the
EHR that captures data. A central database that fo-cuses on clinical
information.
Data types - Accurate Answers✔✔A technical category of data (text,
numbers, cur-rency, date, memo, and link data) that a field in a database
can contain
Discrete data - Accurate Answers✔✔Data that represent separate and
distinct val-ues or observations; that is, data that contain only finite
num-bers and have only specified values.
Free-text data - Accurate Answers✔✔Data that are narrative in nature
,Structured data - Accurate Answers✔✔Binary, computer-readable data
Diagnostic image data - Accurate Answers✔✔Bit-mapped images used
for medi-cal or diagnostic purposes (for example, chest x-rays or com-
puted tomography scans)
Bit-mapped data - Accurate Answers✔✔Data made up of pixels
displayed on a horizontal and vertical grid or matrix
Raster image - Accurate Answers✔✔A digital image or digital data
made up of pixels in a horizontal and vertical grid or a matrix instead of
lines plotted between a series of points.
Pixel - Accurate Answers✔✔An abbreviation for the term picture
element, which is defined by many tiny bits of data or pointsmla 8th
Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)Latour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)Latour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA
Press.
Analog - Accurate Answers✔✔Data or information that is not
represented in an en-coded, computer-readable formatmla 8th Edition
(Modern Language Assoc.)Latour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
, ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)Latour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA
Press.
Digital - Accurate Answers✔✔1. A data transmission type based on data
that have been binary encoded 2. A term that refers to the data or
information represented in an encoded, computer-readable formatmla
8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)Latour, Kathleen M., et al. Health
Information Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th
ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA 7th Edition (American Psychological
Assoc.)Latour, K. M., American Health Information Management
Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs, P. K. (2013). Health Information
Management : Concepts, Principles, and Practice: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA
Press.
Digital modalities - Accurate Answers✔✔computed radiography (CR),
CT,
Magnetic resonance (MR), or nuclear medicine
Real audio data - Accurate Answers✔✔sound bytes, such as digital heart
sounds.The storing, manipulating, and displaying of sound in a
computer-readable formatmla 8th Edition (Modern Language
Assoc.)Latour, Kathleen M., et al. Health Information Management :
Concepts, Principles, and Practice. Vol. 4th ed, AHIMA Press, 2013.APA
7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)Latour, K. M., American
Health Information Management Association, Eichenwald, S., & Oachs,
