TEST BANK
Information Technology for the Health Professions
Lillian Burke, and Barbara Weill
5th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 An Introduction to Medical Informatics: Administrative Uses of Computers in
the Medical Office 1
Chapter 02 Telemedicine 5
Chapter 03 Information Technology in Public Health 9
Chapter 04 Information Technology in Radiology 14
Chapter 05 Information Technology in Surgery-The Cutting Edge 18
Chapter 06 Information Technology in Pharmacy 22
Chapter 07 Information Technology in Dentistry 26
Chapter 08 Informational Resources: Computer-Assisted Instruction, Expert Systems,
Health Information Online 30
Chapter 09 Information Technology in Rehabilitative Therapies: Computerized Medical
Devices, Assistive Technology, and Prosthetic Devices 34
Chapter 10 Security and Privacy in an Electronic Age 39
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Test Bank - Information Technology for the Health Professions, 5th Edition (Burke, 2019)
Information Technology for the Health Professions, 5e (Burke)
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Medical Informatics: Administrative Uses of Computers in
the Medical Office
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) ________ refers to the use of computers to organize information in health care.
A) Clinical informatics
B) Medical computing
C) Medical informatics
D) A and C
Answer: D
2) ________ uses computers to solve biological problems.
A) Biological informatics
B) Bioinformatics
C) Computerized biology
D) Biological computing
Answer: B
3) ________ refers to the connection of people and diverse computer systems.
A) Interoperability
B) Systemic computerization
C) Intersystemology
D) None of the above
Answer: A
4) ________ is the use of computers and software to enter prescriptions and send them to
pharmacies electronically.
A) Computer prescription
B) Elemental prescribing
C) e-prescribing
D) None of the above
Answer: C
5) ________ was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1996. Its goal was to make
health insurance portable from one job to another and to secure the privacy of medical records.
A) HIPAA
B) HIPPA
C) The Americans with Disabilities Act
D) None of the above
Answer: A
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Test Bank - Information Technology for the Health Professions, 5th Edition (Burke, 2019)
6) ________ has the task of overseeing the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs, setting
standards, and judging the impact.
A) ARRA
B) The Congress
C) The President
D) ONCHIT
Answer: D
7) The ________ was signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Obama; it included
billions of dollars for the expansion of health information technology. Through Medicare and
Medicaid, monetary incentives would be offered to doctors and hospitals to adopt EHRs.
A) Americans with Disabilities Act
B) USA PATRIOT Act
C) Homeland Security Act
D) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Answer: D
8) Administrative applications of computers include ________.
A) scheduling
B) coding
C) accounting
D) all of the above
Answer: D
9) Medical offices must use ________ billing to accommodate two or three insurers, who must
be billed in a timely fashion before the patient is billed.
A) super
B) partial
C) bucket
D) None of the above
Answer: C
10) Which of the following are obstacles in the way of adopting electronic records?
A) Cost
B) Privacy concerns
C) Lack of interoperability
D) All of the above
Answer: D
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