HSA4191 Exam 1

Information

data that has been interpreted for meaning

What is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement?

Wisdom

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is that:

Wisdom is the synthesis of information, insight and reflection

Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit a healthcare provider to share patient information for treatment purposes by fax, email or phone?

Yes

Knowledge

awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that information can be useful to support a specific task or arrive at a decision

HITECH Act

provided monetary incentives for the development of HIT infrastructure so that EHR's would be readily available to patient and provider

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Curtails healthcare fraud and abuse, enforce standards for health information, guarantee the security and privacy of health information, ensure health insurance portability for employed persons

What is the source of knowledge that causes one to react without thinking?

Instinct

Sources of Knowledge

Instinct, Reason, Intuition, Perception, Logic

Connectionism

Uses computer modeling through artificial neural networks to try and explain human interaction abilities - Brain and nervous system = inputs synapses - Sensory or Motor = outputs

From which perspective does cognitive science study the mind, intelligence, and behavior?

Information processing

Plug and Play Device

Plug it in and it works

What term refers to a prime input device resembling a typewriter?

Keyboard

2 Main input devices:

Keyboard and Mouse

What best describes what is needed in a healthcare professional's decision-making process?

Knowledge and Wisdom

What is a driver?

The software that runs specific devices

Instinct

when one reacts without reason

Hardware: What makes the computer go faster?

Ram sticks

Virtual communication technology may be beneficial for healthcare workers, as it:

Allows opportunities for exchange of ideas

Ethics is best described as:

A goal-oriented approach to answering questions that potentially have multiple acceptable answers

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

All of these are correct: - Financial assets - Technology assets - Human resources

Computer Science can facilitate:

Acquiring data and information, and manipulating it

Katabi Video:

All about wireless signals and how we can use them in healthcare. The wireless signals were compared to radar. Implications were mentioned for monitoring chronic diseases while the patient is at home. This way we can find problems and have the doctors intervene earlier to avoid hospitalization

Healthcare professionals need to be familiar with the:

All of the above: - Goals and purposes of the HITCH Act of 2009 - Medicare and Medicaid HIT provisions - HIPAA of 1996

The intent of HIPAA was to:

All of these are correct: - 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

Wisdom

Appropriate use of knowledge

Potential Legal Issues Associated with Technology

BYOD (bring your own device): Healthcare organizations typically don't encourage personal devices and in many instances actually have policies in place forbidding it

Blockchain Video:

Blockchain will fill the gap of trust. A more safe way to store our data with keys at each level.

Hardware: If your computer isn't keeping the date, what would you replace?

CMOS battery

Hardware: What is the brains of the computer?

CPU (Central Processing Unit)

The scaffolding for analyzing and modeling complicated human performance is provided by:

Cognitive science

What is a network?

Communication of computers and data. - There are local networks (school), wide area networks, metropolitan networks (Boston) and storage area networks

What best describes the broader benefit for implementing a nationwide electronic health record?

Data access easier for researchers

Experts in computer science strive to understand how the mind processes:

Data and information

DIKW Paradigm

Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

The widespread use of the smartphone has prompted healthcare organizations to:

Develop policies for use

The study of the nature and origin of knowledge is:

Epistemology

An oncology practice requires all patients to sign in when they arrive at their office. Is this a violation of HIPAA?

False (no)

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

Information age

What best describes the benefit of embracing the use of technology in healthcare practices?

Knowledge and wisdom development

Name 6 more input devices:

Microphone, touch screen, scanner, stylus, remote control, gestures

A prime input device that is handheld and has buttons and controls functions on the computer screen

Mouse

In order to promote the exchange of information with others, computers are connected to:

Networks

What best defines the process of acquiring knowledge through use of the senses?

Perception

The ability of the OS to be moved from one hardware architecture to another with few changes is:

Portability

New technologies used in healthcare, such as smartphones or Google Glass, create potential ethical issues with:

Privacy and Confidentiality

Potential Legal Issues: Social Media

Professionals who engage with social media need to be especially cognizant of a potential breach of confidentiality of patient information

The term that refers to the OS incorporating hardware protection for virtual memory is:

Security

Which title of HIPAA involves "preventing health care fraud and abuse; administrative simplification; medical liability reform"

Title II

Logic

is a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration - the science of the formal principles of reasoning

Intuition

is a way of acquiring knowledge that cannot be obtained by inference, deduction, observation, reason, analysis, experience

Reason

is to collect facts, generalize, and reason out from cause to effect, from effect to cause, from premises to conclusions, from propositions to proofs

Data

raw facts

Perception

the process of acquiring knowledge about the environment or situation by obtaining, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information from seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling