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1. HSA 520 Final Exam Part 1
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HSA 520 Final Exam Part 1
Question 1
Computational functions support:
Question 2
An information-inquiring culture has transparent:
Question 3
The genesis of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) goes back to
the roots of numerous areas, including:
Question 4
A healthcare services organization may develop or adopt various types of
cultures, including:
Question 5
Because it is an art form, motivation requires that the CIO have special skills
and elevated expertise, including:
Question 6
Systems are:
Question 7
Shared values portray:
Question 8
The executive largely responsible for articulating the organizational vision and
mission is the:
Question 9
The role of the CEO or CIO to oversee the use of HMIS in any healthcare
services organization requires that the individual has been trained and has
experience and mastered a certain set of:
Question 10
2. URL stands for:
Question 11
Online extraction of relevant health information by both experts and laypersons
have proliferated due to:
Question 12
The Internet has facilitated the use of information and communication
technology (ICT) to:
.
Question 13
Online health information seeking should be of concern for health
administrators for myriad reasons, including that it:
Question 14
Existing ERP packages include:
Question 15
How can ERP software be used to facilitate data integration?
Question 16
The goal for ERP is:
Question 17
What has often been referred to as the "brain" or "heart" of a computer?
Question 18
For practice management systems delivered from private healthcare
organizations and hospitals, electronic billing and patient scheduling are being
developed for numerous benefits, including:
.
Question 19
One definition of regional health information organizations (RHINO):
Question 20
Consolidation, sometimes purported as a “market-sheltering activity” occurs
when:
Question 21
One definition of community health information networks (CHIN) is:
Question 22
A Web-based PHR system will empower patients with:
3. Question 23
While the vision of EHR is theoretically possible, it is difficult to realize in
practice. EHR would portray:
Question 24
Healthcare databases have been in existence for as long as there have been data
storage devices, and in addition to a computer data-processing database, they
can include.
Question 25
Substantial administrative and clinical benefits can be achieved, should a
universal EHR system be finally realized and these include:
Question 26
As a modular, self-describing type of software service, Web services are self-
contained applications that can be:
Question 27
Technically, most legacy systems were developed using different languages such
as:
Question 28
WSIHIS provides user interfaces that provide:
Question 29
Seamless system interoperability of legacy HMIS is a challenging task because
these legacy systems were largely developed when there were no:
Question 30
With what primary challenge is interoperability primarily concerned?
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HSA 520 Final Exam Part 2
Question 1
4. e-prescribing means:
Question 2
A semistructured interview should:
Question 3
The movement toward the use of EHR has developed much further in countries
other than the United States, where only what percent of practices use EHR?
Question 4
A structured interview should:
Question 5
Of the following concepts, which describes "system development methodology
tools"?
Question 6
An end-user is:
Question 7
Variables used in formalized data flow diagrams (DFD), refers to:
Question 8
Early computer applications were typically designed without adequate analysis
and planning. As HMIS evolved, what type of approach became increasingly
necessary? •
Question 9
How is management, a major component of data stewardship, defined?
Question 10
How is business intelligence, a major component of data stewardship, defined?
Question 11
Which of the following may be considered the number-one priority when
designing, implement, and evaluating HMIS?
Question 12
Which of the following factors provide a primary challenge for accurate billing?
•
Question 13
5. HMIS staffing issues can be addressed by simply asking pertinent questions, like
all but one of the following:
Question 14
In addition to examining various staffing issues at the system level, what strategy
most helps ensure a smooth and timely HMIS implementation?
Question 15
Training modules focused on the systems, and not the operational, perspective is
called?
Question 16
Program coding, or simply programming, refers to the:.
Question 17
What is the recommended best practice to reward good technical HMIS
personnel?
Question 18
One of the reasons DICOM standards have been popularly accepted and
adopted across a wide variety of clinical imaging contexts is that these standards
specify a conformance statement that improves:
Question 19
Health Level Seven (HL7), as accredited by ANSI, is a system development
organization whose aim is to:
Question 20
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted
on August 21, 1996, by the U.S. Congress to accelerate the development of data
standards to improve:
Question 21
What information, precisely, is HIPAA protecting?
Question 22
The WHO categorizes the application of e-health into broad areas, one of which
is knowledge services, which means:
Question 23
The world has recognized extensive advantages of globalization, the most
common benefits revolve around which discourse?
6. Question 24
Technological barriers to e-health adoption are:
Question 25
E-Health, one of the major current categories of telemedicine, refers to:
Question 26
What is the best mitigation approach for the barrier identified for effective
HMIS use and diffusion referred to as: clinicians and system users not involved
in the process of design and selection?
Question 27
What are primary barriers for innovation diffusion in the healthcare sector
wearable monitoring device technology?
Question 28
What is the best mitigation approach for the barrier identified for effective
HMIS use and diffusion referred to as: lack of training, lack of access to the
structured knowledge and criteria regarding the system capabilities and
implementation processes?
Question 29
What is the best mitigation approach for the barrier identified for effective
HMIS use and diffusion referred to as: cultural resistance to algorithms and
management systems among physicians?
Question 30
Within the healthcare services organization context, healthcare technology can
be conceptualized broadly and be said to be:
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HSA 520 Midterm Part 1
• Question 1
7. Emerging trends that are encouraging heathcare executives to become
interested in developing innovative, integrative, and cost-beneficial HMIS
solutions include:
• Question 2
The data input phase includes:
• Question 3
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The genesis of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) goes
back to the roots of numerous areas, including:
• Question 4
An information-discovery culture ensures:
• Question 5
A healthcare services organization may develop or adopt various types of
cultures, including:
• Question 6
The main means of amassing data include:
• Question 7
Computational functions support:
8. • Question 8
An information-inquiring culture has transparent:
• Question 9
Marketing strategy has to do with:
• Question 10
Effective communication is essential for forming all kinds of work
relationships, especially for:
• Question 11
Effective listening requires:
• Question 12
In a healthcare services organizational context, the mission, goals, and
objectives of the health organization determine how:
• Question 13
As a trustworthy leader, the senior executive must have the ability to:
• Question 14
Growth strategies, in the form of product and market development,
mergers, acquisitions, and/or internal ventures, are aggressively followed when:
• Question 15
9. The executive who oversees the financing function, budgeting, and
funding of the health services organization’s operating programs is the:
• Question 16
One of the most important steps that an effective CEO/CIO should take
is:
• Question 17
Determinants of site success such as Trusera (invitation only),
DailyStrength, PatientsLikeMe, and Caring.com rest with a triad of:
• Question 18
The application of powerful Web-mining strategies, based on previous
patterns of Web usage, provides for:
• Question 19
Online health information seeking should be of concern for health
administrators for myriad reasons, including that it:
• Question 20
The 2006 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey found that the
following users seek health information online in the United States:
• Question 21
10. The primary purposes of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and Internet Engineering Steering Group
(IESG) are to:
• Question 22
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The digital divide stands to affect:
• Question 23
Online extraction of relevant health information by both experts and
laypersons have proliferated due to:
• Question 24
What nationality receives more than one-third of their health and medical
care information via television?
• Question 25
URL stands for:
Set 2
• Question 1
An information-discovery culture ensures:
• Question 2
The data input phase includes:
11. • Question 3
A healthcare services organization may develop or adopt various types of
cultures, including:
• Question 4
The majority of computerized patient record systems have capabilities to
reject invalid data with the use of techniques including:
• Question 5
An information-inquiring culture has transparent:
• Question 6
The main means of amassing data include:
• Question 7
Computational functions support:
• Question 8
The genesis of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) goes
back to the roots of numerous areas, including:
• Question 9
The executive who oversees the daily heathcare services delivery
operations is the:
• Question 10
Growth strategies, in the form of product and market development,
mergers, acquisitions, and/or internal ventures, are aggressively followed when:
• Question 11
Defensive strategies come into play when:
12. • Question 12
Real-world HMIS practices:
• Question 13
Because it is an art form, motivation requires that the CIO have special
skills and elevated expertise, including:
• Question 14
One of the most important steps that an effective CEO/CIO should take
is:
• Question 15
The executive largely responsible for articulating the organizational
vision and mission is the:
• Question 16
The executive who oversees the financing function, budgeting, and
funding of the health services organization’s operating programs is the:
• Question 17
The application of powerful Web-mining strategies, based on previous
patterns of Web usage, provides for:
• Question 18
The primary purposes of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and Internet Engineering Steering Group
(IESG) are to:
• Question 19
13. Online health information seeking should be of concern for health
administrators for myriad reasons, including that it:
• Question 20
Online activities include:
• Question 21
The digital divide stands to affect:
• Question 22
Several researchers have argued that computer-mediated communities
support cancer patients by:
• Question 23
Online extraction of relevant health information by both experts and
laypersons have proliferated due to:
• Question 24
URL stands for:
• Question 25
Intranets and extranets are:
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• Question 1
The goal for ERP is:
14. • Question 2
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a major HMIS enterprise
software system that:
• Question 3
The deployment of e-commerce enterprise wide software, such as
electronic data interchange (EDI) or Web services, are examples
of:
• Question 4
Existing ERP packages include:
• Question 5
Customer relationship management (CRM) software must be designed
with the following in mind.
• Question 6
Primary storage, or main memory is:
• Question 7
Systems software manages:
• Question 8
A key high-profile enterprise software system that has emerged in the
HMIS landscape is:
• Question 9
15. Consolidation, sometimes purported as a “market-sheltering activity”
occurs when:
• Question 10
One definition of regional health information organizations
(RHINO):
• Question 11
Issues that may arise with a RHINO setup like the Mayo Clinic's include
problems with:
• Question 12
Open systems, as characterized by the Internet, electronic data
interchange (EDI), and extranets, offer:
• Question 13
One definition of community health information networks (CHIN)
is:
• Question 14
One of the stated goals of HL7 collaboration is to:
• Question 15
Mayo offers a fully integrated intranet that allows providers access
to:
• Question 16
For practice management systems delivered from private healthcare
organizations and hospitals, electronic billing and patient scheduling are being
developed for numerous benefits, including:
• Question 17
16. Major challenges, with respect to the acceptance and adoption of EHR in
healthcare services organizations, include:
• Question 18
Computer-based decision support systems (CDSS) are:
• Question 19
While the vision of EHR is theoretically possible, it is difficult to realize in
practice. EHR would portray:
• Question 20
When combined with various other workflow tools, computerized
physician order entry (CPOE) can also be useful in providing information
about:
• Question 21
Healthcare databases have been in existence for as long as there have
been data storage devices, and in addition to a computer data-processing
database, they can include.
• Question 22
Electronic health records can:
• Question 23
Closely related to, and often functioning as part of, EHR, a computerized
physician order entry (CPOE) system is basically:
• Question 24
Three categories of healthcare data are required, almost universally, by
healthcare services
organizations for supporting their planning and decision-making activities, and
one of these is:
17. • Question 25
Substantial administrative and clinical benefits can be achieved, should a
universal EHR system be finally realized and these include:
HSA 520 Week 1 DQ 1 The Evolution of Health Information Technology
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· Analyze the current trends affecting the evolution of health information
technology (HIT). Determine a significant trend that you believe is having the
most significant impact on the expansion of HIT. Support your rationale for each
of the factors identified.
· Argue that a health organization’s shift to HMIS ensures the effectiveness
of health care services. Provide support for your rationale.
HSA 520 Week 1 DQ 2 The Components of HIMS
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Suggest one significant function of an integrated health information
management system that can improve the delivery of health care services.
Include an example to justify your response.
· Analyze the key challenges of implementing a health information
management system. Suggest a key concern that could deter management from
implementing a fully integrated HIMS.
HSA 520 Week 2 DQ 1 Strategy and HIT
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Suggest an organizational strategy that you think would be effective for a
health care organization. Recommend a key HIT tactic that would support
the implementation of the strategy selected. Justify your response.
· Analyze the role of a CEO or CIO in a health care organization. Based
on your knowledge and experience, determine what you believe to be a
significant characteristic of effective leadership, and elaborate on its
importance to the success of the organization.
HSA 520 Week 2 DQ 2 Health Information on the Internet
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Suggest a significant advantage and disadvantage of researching health
information on the Internet. Support your rationale.
· Create a scenario that demonstrates the empowerment of health
information seekers. Provide support for your rationale.
HSA 520 Week 3 Assignment 1 Technology Assessment (2 Papers)
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Assignment 1: Technology Assessment
Due Week 3 and worth 240 points
Using the Internet or University databases, research the regulatory
requirements related to technology with the health care industry, and
complete this assignment.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
19. 1. Identify and analyze what you believe to be the most significant new
technology requirements for the health care industry. Indicate how providers
should approach the implementation of this new technology requirement that
you have identified. Provide support for the response.
2. Analyze the basic technology underlying health care information
systems. Argue that the need for technological innovation and / or
modification is most pressing. Support the argument with examples.
3. Recommend an innovation / modification, and explain how the
recommendation could improve the overall level of health care in your own
community. Include specific example(s) using local hospitals or other health
care providers to support the response.
4. Suggest a key action that senior health care leadership could take in the
community in which you live to push the boundaries of information
technology management. Next, speculate on the effect to the community as a
result of the improvement to the health care technology.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this
assignment.Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page
length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Demonstrate an understanding of the basic technology underlying
health care information systems.
· Apply senior management’s role in information technology
management.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in health
information systems.
· Write clearly and concisely about health information systems using
proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic /
organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following
rubric.
20.
HSA 520 Week 3 DQ 1 Enterprise Software Systems
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Analyze the use of an Enterprise Software Systems (ESS) in a health care
organization with regard to its effects on operational outcomes. Select one of the
following applications, and recommend three specific ways that the application
you selected can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a health care
organization: supply chain management, customer relations management, and
enterprise resource planning. Note: Make sure your suggestion is NOT covered
in the textbook.
Based on the recommendations that you made in the Part I of this discussion,
determine a significant drawback of using the software application in question.
Justify your response with one example.
HSA 520 Week 3 DQ 2 Integrated Delivery Systems
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Determine a key aspect of a health care facility’s culture that is necessary to
support the implementation of an integrated delivery system. Support your
response.
Make a recommendation for how the use of an integrated delivery system can
improve patient services along with each of the four steps of the service model.
HSA 520 Week 4 DQ 1 Community and Health Information Networks
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21. Community and Health Information Networks” Please respond to the following:
From the e-Activity, determine a key trend that supports the implementation of
either a community health information network (CHIN) or regional health
information organizations (RHINO) in today’s health care organizations. Justify
your response.
Create an argument that the benefits outweigh the challenges when transitioning
from CHIN to RHINO. Provide support for your argument.
HSA 520 Week 4 DQ 2 Patient-Centric Management Systems
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Patient-Centric Management Systems” Please respond to the following:
Suggest a significant advantage to integrating a computerized physician order
entry system (COPE) and a clinical decision support system (CDSS), as part of
an organization’s EHR. Provide support for your rationale.
Take a position on whether paper health records or electronic database systems
are more efficient. Support your rationale. Next, determine three advantages and
three disadvantages to the use of electronic medical records. Justify your
analysis.
HSA 520 Week 5 DQ 2 Interoperability
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“Interoperability” Please respond to the following:
Elaborate on the trend of interoperability of health care management
information systems. Determine a significant challenge that health care
organizations will face when creating an interoperable system. Justify your
response.
Suggest a significant benefit of interoperability that is the result of the SAPHIRE
project. Provide support for your rationale.
22. HSA 520 Week 6 DQ 1 HMIS Planning
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HMIS Planning" Please respond to the following:
Analyze the main functions of the planning, organizing, directing, and
controlling (PODC) model of management, indicating where managers are most
likely to struggle performing these functions. Provide a rationale to support your
response. Suggest a key factor that management must consider when making the
decision to implement an HMIS. Provide a rationale for your determination.
HSA 520 Week 6 DQ 2 Developing HIMS in a Health Care Organization
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"Developing HIMS in a Health Care Organization" Please respond to the
following:
Create an argument for the HIMS development method you think would be the
most effective in a health care organization. Justify your response.
Speculate on whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for using Open
Source Software in a hospital setting. Provide support for your rationale.
HSA 520 Week 7 Assignment 2 IM / IT Analysis (2 Papers)
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Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
1. Determine, within the health care setting, the main features, capabilities, and
23. operational benefits to a health care organization using the following:
a. patient care applications
b. management and enterprise systems
c. e-Health applications
d. strategic decision-support applications
Provide specific examples of each.
2. Assume that you are a senior health service administrator responsible for the
health information systems within your organization, and create an argument to
be presented to the leaders with the organization that a strategic plan is essential
for the IM / IT. Indicate the most significant elements that the administrator
should address in the plan. Provide support for the rationale.
3. Assess the importance of a systems development life cycle as it pertains to both
the development of a custom application, coupled with the selection of
proprietary systems. Provide an example to support the response.
4. Recommend the key element necessary to ensure secure access to health care
and patient information within a health care management electronic system.
Provide support for the recommendation.
5. Make at least two (2) recommendations for improving the application of
systems theory to health care IM / IT governance and planning. Provide specific
examples to support the response.
6. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and
similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch
margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific
format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name,
the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Determine the main features and capabilities of patient care applications,
management and enterprise systems, e-Health applications, and strategic
decision-support applications within the health care setting.
• Analyze the process of developing a strategic information system plan and
determine its basic components.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the systems development life cycle as it
pertains to both the development of a custom application and the selection of
proprietary systems.
• Assess the need for and determine the methods of accomplishing the security of
information systems.
24. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health
information systems.
HSA 520 Week 10 Assignment 3 Information Governance (2 Papers)
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Write a seven to eight (7-8) page paper in which you:
1. Determine the key factors contributing to the failure in question. Next,
analyze how the failure impacted both the organization’s operations and
patient information protection and privacy.
2. Analyze the leadership team’s reaction to the failure, and indicate whether
the leadership took sufficient measures to deal with various stakeholder
groups impacted by the failure. Provide support for the rationale.
3. Take a position on whether the health care provider that you identified
should either develop a custom application or select a proprietary system.
Provide support for the rationale.
4. Recommend at least three (3) best practices that any organization could
adopt in order to avoid such a failure in the future. Provide support for the
recommendation.
5. Suggest how health care leaders can use project metrics and portfolio
management to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness. Provide
specific examples to support the response.
6. Analyze a government intervention into health care businesses, meant to
ensure that health care and patient information is secure and thus to
minimize information breaches and technology failures. Argue for or against
such intervention. Support the position.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia
and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
25. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-
inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-
specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and
the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Demonstrate an understanding of the systems development life cycle as it
pertains to both the development of a custom application and the selection of
proprietary systems.
· Assess the need for and determine the methods of accomplishing the security
of information systems.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in health
information systems.
· Write clearly and concisely about health information systems using proper
writing mechanics.