Deck 4: Data in Digital Health Systems

Question 1

Between 2013 and 2015, approximately what fraction of hospitals added online patient access to medical records?

A) Three-quarters
B) One-half
C) One-third
D) One-fifth

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Health data are expected to grow from 2013 to 2020 by approximately what percentage per year?

A) 2%
B) 4%
C) 7%
D) 9%

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following falls outside the most common current uses of healthcare data?

A) Improving clinical outcomes
B) Analyzing costs
C) Designing new devices
D) Assessing public health

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is information that is least likely to be in a healthcare database?

A) Food preferences
B) Body temperature
C) Height
D) Pulse

Question 5

Data can be described as:

A) information before it is given context.
B) context itself.
C) the same thing as information.
D) information plus context.

Question 6

Approximately how much money was involved in the National Health Care Fraud Takedown?

A) $2,000,000
B) $50,000,000
C) $900,000,000
D) $2,000,000,000

Question 7

How often is unauthorized access to patient data due to employee error?

A) Almost always
B) Sometimes
C) Rarely
D) Never, by legal definition

Question 8

Ransomware attacks increased from 2016 to 2017 by approximately __________ fold?

A) two
B) three
C) five
D) seven

Question 9

When a nurse makes a voice recording of patient notes and includes that directly in an EHR, this is considered to be:

A) big data.
B) unstructured data.
C) private data.
D) omitted data.

Question 10

A semi-conscious patient's responses to questions may lead to:

A) privacy violations.
B) incorrect input.
C) data omission.
D) a data breach.

Question 11

How many points are in AHIMA's data quality model?

A) 3
B) 5
C) 8
D) 10

Question 12

What is the cost of healthcare fraud in the United States each year?

A) Approximately one trillion dollars
B) Tens to hundreds of billions of dollars
C) Approximately $20 billion
D) Hundreds of millions of dollars

Question 13

Healthcare data on blood pressure that used in a meta-analysis looking at blood pressure and prostate cancer are primary data.

Question 14

Some healthcare data take the form of multimedia.

Question 15

Billing records are administrative data.

Question 16

Readings of blood pressure and respiration rate are clinical data.

Question 17

A registry is an example of a secondary healthcare data source.

Question 18

If you were working on a study and needed data on the incidence of breast cancer in immigrant women, you could use data from HealthData.gov.

Question 19

Primary and secondary healthcare data could help improve the operational efficiency of a rural county health service.

Question 20

If not all of a patient's medicines are listed in an EHR, that is a data entry error.

Question 21

An uncooperative patient could contribute to data omission errors.

Question 22

If a surgeon fails to complete records on a hernia operation by putting notes in the wrong places on an online form, this could be due to a poorly designed system error.

Question 23

If you forget to log out of your hospital's secure server and your laptop is stolen, along with patient data, this is a poorly designed system error.

Question 24

Results from cholesterol tests will take the form of _________ data in an EHR.

Question 25

Data used for the purpose for which they were collected are _________ data.

Question 26

What are some possible sources of low-quality data? Why is it important to keep erroneous data minimized?

Question 27

Data stored in EHR systems are almost always reduced to the simplest form. What is this type of data called, and why is this done?

Question 28

Why does the DGI's data governance framework exist, and what role does it play in EHR?

Question 29

What is the primary difference between data and information? What purpose does each serve in an EHR system?

Question 30

Consider the implications of EHR systems in health care. Is it feasible for a healthcare provider to use the data they collect to discover health risks in a city or community?

Question 31

What sort of contribution can secondary data provide beyond that of registries to improve healthcare delivery in general?

Question 32

In considering the issues surrounding data errors and quality issues, what would be considered the common underlying component driving its cause?

Question 33

What do you see as the trend of healthcare big data analytics? Why do you think proper analysis of data can aid in the prevention of healthcare frauds?