Midterm Study Review

Computer science studies the application and usage of information and knowledge in organizations and the interface or interaction between people, organizations, and information systems

False

Knowledge and wisdom are the same

False

Wisdom entails knowing when and how to apply computer concepts to software design.

False

What name refers to the ability to provide the right information at the right time to the right person for the right purpose?

Utility

The intent of HIPAA was to:

- Curtail healthcare fraud and abuse, and enforce standards for health information - Guarantee the security and privacy of health information - Assure health insurance portability for employed persons

What is connectionism?

A component of cognitive science that uses computer modeling through artificial neural networks to try to explain human intellectual abilities

which definition describes the information age?

A period of time when data, information, and knowledge are accessible by more people than ever in history.

The scaffolding for the analysis and modeling of complicated, multifaceted human performance is provided by:

Cognitive Science

Define Cognitive Science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary field that studies the mind, intelligence, and behavior from an information processing perspective.

What do Clinical decision support systems help users do?

Consider consequences of alternative actions, provide stores of information, and make decisions in unfamiliar circumstances.

What is AI?

Deals with the conception, development, and implementation of informatics tools based on intelligent technologies. This field attempts to capture the complex processes of human thought and intelligence.

What describes using layered architecture with a protected executive layer that allows additional environment subsystems?

Extensibility

Developing a national HIT infrastructure is an enormous and extremely complex undertaking that requires:

Financial assets, Technological assets, and Human resources

When healthcare professionals create new knowledge by changing and evolving knowledge based on experience, education, and input from other, they are: Collecting health data in a data warehouse and mining that data for new relationships and new understanding is an example of:

Generating knowledge

What is Health Informatics based on?

Information science, computer science, cognitive science, discipline-specific science The core skill set related to the use of computers, electronic health records, healthcare technologies, and knowledge generation in a discipline is known as:

What best describes computer throughput or processing components?

Input devices and the computer monitor are examples of visible throughput components.

What factors influence the design and use of technology?

Nature of the mind, knowledge representation, language, problem solving, and social factors

What are interconnected simple processing devices or simplified models of the brain and nervous system that consist of a considerable number of elements or units (analogs of neurons) linked together in a pattern of connections (analogs of synapses).

Neural Networks

What is Data?

Raw Facts

Thinking is best understood in terms of:

Representational Structures

According to computer manufacturers, what is necessary in order to manage the increasing complexity of computers and remain user friendly?

Seamless hardware and software capability

Central goal of health informatics

To manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in the delivery of healthcare

Cache memory is extremely quick memory that holds whatever data and code are being used at any one time.

True

Cognitive science enhances the integration and implementation of the technologies used by knowledge workers.

True

Computers support collaboration, networking, and information exchange.

True

Ethical dilemmas occur when issues raise questions that cannot be answered with a simple, clearly defined rule, fact, or authoritative view.

True

Longo (2015) suggests that understanding low and high levels of Human Mental Workload, such as annoyance and frustration when building computer systems.

True

The HITECH Act was enacted in 2009 to help stimulate both health care and financial recovery in the United States.

True

The central processing unit CPU is the computer component that actually executes, calculates, and processes the binary computer code (which consists of various configurations of 0s and 1s), instigated by the operating system and other applications on the computer?

True

The motherboard has been called the computer's Central Nervous System

True

The size of the power supply should be chosen based on the number of devices and programs used by the computer.

True

ccording to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "The central hypothesis of cognitive science is that thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures."

True

Which type of port if required to power a flash drive?

USB

A neural network that models the entire nervous system would have all but which of the following?

a. Input units b. Output units c. Hidden units d. Correlating units <--

What are the characteristics of valuable, quality information?

accessibility, security, timeliness, accuracy, relevancy, completeness, flexibility, reliability, objectivity, utility, transparency, verifiability, and reproducibility.

What is knowledge transparency?

allows users to apply their intellect to accomplish their tasks while the tools housing the information disappear from conscious thought. Using knowledge without conscious thought

When healthcare professionals review the EHR prior to interacting with a patient, they are gathering:

data and information

Health informatics competencies related to using an EHR include all of the following except:

follow security and privacy policies and procedures for the use of networks, including intranet and internet

The scientific basis of practice in a discipline is dependent on:

gathering and using information, applying knowledge to a problem, acting with wisdom

When healthcare professionals create new knowledge by changing and evolving knowledge based on experience, education, and input from others, they are:

generating knowledge

The joint AHIMA-AMIA task force identified five domains for informatics competencies for all healthcare workers.

health information literacy, health informatics skills using the EHR, privacy and confidentiality of health information, health information and data technical security, computer literacy

Another name for data that has meaning is:

information

Using a clinical practice guideline as a basis for practice is an example of:

knowledge application

Wisdom is:

knowledge applied in a practical way or translated into actions, insight to exercise sound judgement in practical matters, the synthesis of our experience, insight, understanding, and knowledge; knowing when and how to apply knowledge highest form of common sense, resulting from accumulated knowledge or erudition (deep, thorough learning) or enlightenment (education that results in understanding and the dissemination of knowledge).

Aristotle described intuition as knowledge obtained by:

leap of understanding

According to the textbook, in order to promote the exchange of information with others, computers are connected to:

networks

In addition to exploring the nature of the mind, knowledge representation, language, problem solving, and decision making, cognitive science also includes:

social factors influencing the design and use of technology

What is epistemology

study of the nature and origin of knowledge

Data collected from EHRs and the aggregation of these data may provide insights into both the health of populations and global health challenges.

true