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C468 Nursing Informatics - Glossary Questions and Complete Solutions Graded A+
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C468 Nursing Informatics- Glossary Questions and
Complete Solutions
Graded A+
Denning [Date] [Course title]
,Administrative information systems - Answer: Systems that support patient care by managing financial
and demographic information and providing reporting capabilities.
Admission/Discharge/Transfer system - Answer: Tracks patient activi-ties and location from admission
through all transfers within a facility through discharge.
Affordable Care Act - Answer: US legislation intended to improve healthcare quality through using
information technology, ensuring affordable care, and increasing the number of insured persons.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Answer: Agency within the Department of Health and
Human Services devoted to improving healthcare quality and safety.
Alert/Alarm fatigue - Answer: Phenomenon that occurs when the volume of alerts, alarms, or warning
messages acts contrary to intention through desensitizing the clinician to the indicators and/or the
purpose.
American Nurses Association - Answer: Professional organization for nurses.
Analytics - Answer: Discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns from data to
offer solutions and drive decisions.
Anesthesia information management system - Answer: Supports real-time anesthetic management of
the patient in the operating suite.
Antivirus software - Answer: Set of computer programs capable of finding and eliminating viruses and
other malicious programs from scanned disks, computers, and networks.
Association for Perioperative Registered Nurses - Answer: Professional organization representing
perioperative registered nurses.
Asynchronous connected health - Answer: Healthcare services in a setting other than face-to-face that
involves asynchronous exchange between a patient and provider.
, Audiovisual monitor - Answer: Electronic device for displaying video and audio output from an
information source.
Audit trail - Answer: Electronic tool that can track system access by individual user, by user class, or by
all persons who viewed a specific client record.
Authentication - Answer: Action that verifies the authority of users to receive specified data.
Authorization - Answer: Process that sets level-of-access privileges and provides training for healthcare
workers to locate and obtain correct patient-level information during their daily workflow, based upon
their need to know.
Automatic sign-off - Answer: Mechanism that logs a user off the computer after a specific period of
inactivity.
Back loaded - Answer: Information that is preloaded into the system before the go-live date.
Bandwidth - Answer: Measure of the information carrying capacity of a communications channel.
Barcode scanning - Answer: Optical-scanning technology used for positive patient identification,
administration of correct medications, and inventory control.
Best of breed - Answer: Refers to the best available technology solution for a given purpose.
Big data - Answer: Very large data sets that are beyond human capability to analyze or manage without
the aid of information technology.
Bioinformatics - Answer: Applying informatics skills to understand and organize information associated
with life at the molecular and genetic levels, inclusive of research, taxonomies, and standard
terminologies.
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