Health Care Technology Terms Worksheet
Select 10 of the following terms and complete all three columns for each term selected.
| Technology Term | Definition and Purpose: Explain each term in your own words using complete sentences. | Example in Health Care: Identify an example of each term and discuss how it is used in health care settings. | References: Provide two APA-formatted references to support your claims for each term. The course textbook(s) may be one source. The second source must be reputable; Wikipedia may not be used as a source. |
| Clinical decision support | Clinical decision support is a computerized software system that is used to augment healthcare providers in their complex decision-making processes. The purpose of CDS is to help and enable healthcare providers to analyze patient data and thus use the same information to formulate diagnosis.it is used to diagnose, improve care and eliminate unnecessary tests by enhancing patient safety, as well as avoiding dangerous and costly complications (Tygesen, Eriksson & Herlitz, (2014). | Clinical decision support is used in diverse ways to convey information. It makes use of existing data set to streamline the workflow and enhance efficiency. An example is when a person is tested for blood pressure, but the system detects an abnormality. The system will record and pop up results in red. (HealthIT.gov, 2013) | (HealthIT.gov, 2013)
(Tygesen, Eriksson & Herlitz, (2014). |
| Data | Data is any information collected, gathered, compiled for a specific purpose such as analysis and interpretation based on reasoning and calculation. A file in a computer is a good example of data (Hibbard & Peters, 2003). | In the healthcare system, data is an important variable that is most need. Patient’s medical history and recorded data by healthcare workers represent patient data useful enough to administer care and medication. (Murdoch & Detsky (2013) | (Murdoch & Detsky (2013)
Peters, 2003). |
| Data integrity | Data integrity is data that is reliable, accurate, and complete. Data integrity does not involve data that has been compromised but involves trustworthy data (Heyward & Whittaker, (2016). | Data integrity is important in healthcare because it helps providers use accurate and uncompromised patient data to make decisions about patient care. Data integrity helps avoid errors during care to a patient. | (Bowman, 2013)
(Heyward & Whittaker (2016). |
| Data management | Data management is an administrative use of available data pulled from different sources, storing, analyzing, and protecting its users’ data. (Rondel, Varley & Webb (2000). | Data management in the healthcare system involves managing rich data sets to allow healthcare systems to create historical and long-term views of patients and enhance their personalized treatment and outcomes while improving communication in all dimensions. (Shakil, Zareen, Alam & Jabin, (2020). | Rondel, Varley & Webb (2000).
(Shakil, Zareen, Alam & Jabin, (2020). |
| Data mining | Data mining involves identifying useful sets of data and analyzing this data to understand the different patterns of the data forms. It is important to mine data in order to predict data trends and determine what to do with them. (Koh & Tan (2011). | Data mining information is useful in the healthcare system. It helps predict medicine trends, manage customer relationship, detect fraud and abuse, manages healthcare services, as well as to measure the effectiveness of treatment (Jothi & Husain, (2015) | (Jothi & Husain, (2015)
(Koh & Tan (2011). |
| Databases | A database is an organized collection of data that is stored and accessed under computerized systems. In healthcare, databases play important roles in ensuring collected data is safe, updatable, and accessible when required (Pollack & Walker (2015). | Patient data are so delicate and require careful interventions. When a health practitioner requires to access patient data, it must be quick and easy to access. This data then should be stored on a secure database that is well designed to process patient data. All healthcare settings need varieties of databases for effective examination and administration of care (Hennessy, (2006). | (Pollack & Walker (2015).
(Hennessy, (2006). |
| Electronic health record (EHR) | An electronic health record is a digital system that stores real-time and patient-centered information. EHR makes patient’s information available and quick to access in a secure manner to the authorized users. (Cowburn & Melgar (2017). | An electronic health record is a system that is built on sharing information across more than one healthcare organization. EHR systems contain information of all clinicians involved in patient care, and the information in it allows providers to make informed decisions about patient care (Wald & Bates, (2006). | (Cowburn & Melgar (2017).
(Wald & Bates (2006). |
| Healthcare information system | The Healthcare information system is a system that has been designed to manage all healthcare data. HIS includes all systems that capture, store, analyze, and transmit medical data. It is a technological component that encompasses the delivery of high quality and safe medical care (AbouZahr & Boerma, (2005). | Healthcare information systems help to minimize medical errors. It takes care of all hospital operations, which helps to support other healthcare policy decisions. An example is the medical billing software that takes records of all medical bills made by patients. The billing software has substituted paper records that are prone to error and loss. (Heeks, (2006). | (AbouZahr & Boerma (2005).
(Heeks, (2006). |
| Informatics | Informatics involves representation, processing, and communication of information in a well-structured and engineered system. (Saba & McCormick, 2015). It involves the integration of healthcare, computer, information, and cognitive science that assists in the management of healthcare information. | Informatics acts as a multitude of processes in a healthcare setting. For example, the bed management system helps each hospital manage the patient census while the radio frequency identification keeps track of the patients, healthcare providers, and the equipment. Informatics helps to coordinate care across hospitals, improving both outcomes and satisfaction. | (Saba & McCormick, 2015)
(Lehman, Shorte & Gundlapalli (2013) |
| Interoperability | Interoperability is the ability of many systems to exchange and interpret the data. The systems can cooperatively access and use the data in a coordinated manner within and outside the organization. (Miranda et al., 2009). | In a healthcare system, systems must be able to communicate with each other in order to increase healthcare standards effectively. For instance, electronic health record has enabled controlled access of patient information across all points of care. (Altman, Clancy, & Blendon (2004) | (Miranda et al., 2009)
(Altman, Clancy, & Blendon (2004) |