WGU D220 QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - CORRECT ANSWER **Authorized INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for adopting & using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and
promote economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession.(3) To provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - CORRECT ANSWER Produced evidence making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability Asynchoronous Applications - CORRECT ANSWER No contact with patient for data collection. EX: Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to 1 / 4
share health metrics and data w/ providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex:
photos) Administrative Information System - CORRECT ANSWER can include registration and scheduling; tracking through admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling; financial or accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human resources; quality assurance; and contract management functions.Affordable Care Act - CORRECT ANSWER law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.Alarm Fatique - CORRECT ANSWER Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or delaying their response to the alarm.ANA (American Nurses Association) - CORRECT ANSWER Professional organization for all RNs. Concerned with licensure, collective bargaining and education Analytics - CORRECT ANSWER A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions. 2 / 4
Audit trail - CORRECT ANSWER a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when information was accessed, and whether any information was changed Authentication - CORRECT ANSWER A method for confirming users' identities Authorization - CORRECT ANSWER The process of giving someone permission to do or have something Barcode Scanning Technology - CORRECT ANSWER Scans drug and patients wristband to verify medication order, inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin Big Data - CORRECT ANSWER a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of information technology Bioinformatics - CORRECT ANSWER application of mathematics and computer science to store, retrieve, and analyze biological data Biometrics - CORRECT ANSWER the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting 3 / 4
Business Continuity Plan - CORRECT ANSWER A plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption Business Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER Information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns, trends, and relationships for strategic decision making Change Control Board (CCB) - CORRECT ANSWER A committee that evaluates the worthiness of a proposed change and either approves or rejects the proposed change.Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - CORRECT ANSWER The senior manager (usually a registered nurse with advanced education and extensive experience) responsible for administering patient care services Clinical Care Classification (CCC) - CORRECT ANSWER "Two interrelated taxonomies, the CCC of Nursing Diagnoses and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions and Actions, that provide a standardized framework for documenting patient care in hospitals, home health agencies, ambulatory care clinics, and other healthcare settings" CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) - CORRECT ANSWER An order entry and decision support system that allows direct entry of orders and immediately shared w/ others
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