Health Informatics

The field of health informatics:

• Is aimed at improving, redesigning, and informing care.

• Creates a better understanding of the best interface between humans and computers.

• Enhances and deploys knowledge in the areas of health, medicine, organization, and population-based outcomes

• All of the above

Which is not a step on the informatics continuum?

• Hypothesis

• Data

• Information

• Knowledge

Which of the following is not among the Five Rights of Health Information Management?

• Right data

• Right code

• Right route

• Right person

• Right time

Sources of data used for health informatics include:

• HIS systems from all four Quadrants of the HIS Planning Framework.

• Direct observations captured in logs of EHRs

• Payers and research organizations

• Websites and mobile devices.

• All of the above.

Public health informatics includes capabilities that:

• Monitor the success of specific physicians.

• Identify health trends and incidence of illness.

• Regulate hospital HIS policies.

• All of the above.

In the view of the HIS Planning Framework as it relates to informatics, patient engagement, clinical workflow design, and mHealth are in Quadrant I.

• True

• False

Informatics is under the umbrella of primary use of data pulled from EHR systems.

• True

• False

Health informatics is the first level in the HIS Conceptual Model.

• True

• False

Informatics may emphasize key performance indicators (KPIs).

• True

• False

Informatics for each clinical discipline, such as nursing informatics, must be based on the key workflow of each discipline.

• True

• False