NR 599:Nursing Informatics Final Exam
What is the National Health Information Network
(Ans- means to advance healthcare information technology
Goals of the NHIN
(Ans- to develop a nationwide interoperable healthcare information technology
infrastructure and a strategic plan to guide implementation in both public and
private sectors
Issues with NHIN
(AnsPolitics
Fear of Change
Competition
Lack of agreement standards
What is HITECH
(Ans- Health Information Technology for Economis & Clinical Health Act
-way to encourage hospitals to adopt health record techonology and meaningful
use
What is the electronic medical record
(Ans- electronic replacement for paper chart, focuses on current information
-one provider
-facility’s own
What is the Electronic Health Record
(Ans- record of patient’s long-term health information
-summary of contributions to different specialities
What does the integration of standardized terminology do
(Ans- provides uniform definitions of terms and facilitates interoperability,
communcation, and exchanged of data with a shared meaning
What is NANDA
(Ans- type of standardized terminology
-defines the nursing diagnoses
Examples of uniform language
(Ans- Nursing dianosis
goal
expected outcomes
nursing intervention
What is SNOMED CT
(Ans- Type of standardised terminology
-Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
What is mapping
(Ans- terms defined in one standardized terminology are associed with comparable
terms in another standardized terminology
What are CPT codes
(Ans- Data Exchange Standard
-Current Procedural Terminology
-a listing of standard description in 5 characters
What are ICD-10 codes
(Ans- Data Exchange Standard
-International Classification of Diseases
-developed by world health organization
-listing of all known diseases and injuries
What is DICOM
(Ans- Data Exchange Standard
-Digital imaging and communication in Medicine
-standard for transmission of medical images and associated information