Deck 8: Technology, Applications and Security

Question 1

What is the term for a field containing redundant data that links two or more tables in a relational database?

A) Key field
B) Logic field
C) Memo field
D) Note field

Answer 1

Key field

Question 2

Which is included in a data model?

A) Data content
B) Data structure
C) Storage method
D) All of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

An example of malware is

A) An attachment to an e-mail message.
B) A Web site that is collecting personal information without permission of the user.
C) A macro that is operating on a computer without permission of the user.
D) None of the above.

Answer 3

A Web site that is collecting personal information without permission of the user.

Question 4

A wireless network can be secured with the use of

A) Wired equivalent privacy protocol.
B) A firewall.
C) A virtual private network.
D) All of the above.

Question 5

Within a health care organization, in what department would you expect to find discussions about transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP)?

A) Patient accounting
B) Medical records
C) Data communication
D) Software development

Question 6

An industry standard sublanguage, command-driven, designed to manipulate relational databases is known as

A) SQL.
B) HL7.
C) Q&A.
D) R-ADT.

Question 7

All the following are data input devices except

A) Printer.
B) Tablet.
C) Smartphone.
D) Keyboard.

Question 8

An example of a relational database management system in personal computer software is

A) PowerPoint.
B) Word.
C) Access.
D) Excel.

Question 9

A repository of electronic information about many patients is called a ____________________.

Question 10

Minimum log data for audit trail purposes contain which of the following?

A) File and user identification
B) Transaction
C) Access time
D) All of the above

Question 11

Each health care provider organization needs a disaster recovery plan for critical information because

A) The plan allows for additional reimbursement by third-party payers.
B) The plan is automatically implemented when a new computer is purchased.
C) The plan will attract more highly skilled IT employees.
D) The plan is required by HIPAA.

Question 12

What is the term given to the study of medical computing?

Question 13

Which is a system designed to acquire, store, retrieve, and display digital images?

A) Registration/admission, discharge, transfer system
B) Database management system
C) Computerized order entry system
D) Picture archiving and communication system

Question 14

In what generation language would you find a program generator?

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of a departmental information system?

A) Business Intelligence
B) Radiology
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance
D) Master patient index

Question 16

Symbology is the term used to describe

A) The abbreviation policy for the health care organization.
B) The font in which a machine-readable code is written.
C) The review of illegible handwriting.
D) None of the above.

Question 17

Which of the following would not be an example of an alert found on a CDSS system?

A) "The patient is allergic to this drug."
B) "The patient is receiving a similar drug to this order."
C) "Your password is going to expire in 10 days."
D) "The drug being ordered is on a restricted formulary. Call for approval."

Question 18

What is the program called that contains the set of instructions that tells the computer what to do?

Question 19

A primary feature that a radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag contains that a bar code does not is that

A) An RFID tag has write-many capabilities.
B) An RFID tag can be printed on labels.
C) An RFID tag number will never be repeated.
D) An RFID tag is less expensive than a bar code.

Question 20

Which of the following is a data input device?

A) Server
B) Scanner
C) Sensor
D) Both b and c

Question 21

List three functions that an ADT system can support.

Question 22

Provide two examples of what can be read by a biometric device.

Question 23

Define an ERP.

Question 24

What does the term "store-and-forward" refer to in telemedicine?

Question 25

List one difference between thick-client and thin-client computers.

Question 26

In the relational model, a patient has two different patient identification numbers from different clinics within a health system. How would the relationship be defined for the patient's social security number and these patient identifiers?

Question 27

List one benefit of using an interface engine instead of a point-to-point interface.

Question 28

What are the typical five roles defined in role-based access control (RBAC)?

Question 29

Contrast a decision-support and a business intelligence system.

Question 30

A physician's office wants to install software to process patient claims to each insurer. Because patients have multiple types of insurance, the software will need not only to transmit the claims but also to understand what information needs to be sent to each insurer. Would you choose a two-tier or three-tier architecture for this application? Why?

Question 31

Given the relational database model principles, what is the most effective way to store each patient's address?

Question 32

List one reason why health care information systems have been able to expand in both scope and presence in most health care organizations.

Question 33

Within an object-oriented database, there are two objects-a social worker and a nurse. There is a third object, employee, of which the social worker and nurse are members. What does the concept of "inheritance" refer to in this example?

Question 34

Give an example of a type of document that would be found on an organization's Intranet.

Question 35

Explain what S-HTTP refers to.

Question 36

List the four popular database models.

Question 37

What is the hierarchical model effective for?

Question 38

Explain why there are issues with physician licensing in telemedicine.

Question 39

What is one advantage of using thin-clients when upgrading a software application?

Question 40

List the two components of a two-tier architecture.

Question 41

A point-of-care system may include order entry decision support systems.

Question 42

Explain the differences between a data mart and a data repository.

Question 43

Information can be input and retrieved by use of a smartphone.

Question 44

Frames are required to be in each Web page containing health information.

Question 45

A virtual machine is able to be connected directly to the information warehouse.

Question 46

A point-of-care health information system includes bedside workstations, biomedical devices, and local area networks (LANs).

Question 47

A user interface is often designed by both users and nonusers of the application.

Question 48

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule specifies specific software applications that are required for two-factor authentication.

Question 49

JAVA compilers are usually found in Web browsers.

Question 50

In a database, a row is a data field.

Question 51

Communications technology is the connecting medium for local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs).

Question 52

A syndromic surveillance system would be used in treating a patient in a physician's office.

Question 53

Standard query language (SQL) is designed to enable queries to databases.

Question 54

The public keys used in encryption are distributed by the U.S. government.

Question 55

A hospital is trying to determine the cause of the recent increase in the average length of stay. Explain why a data mining approach to answering this question might be useful.

Question 56

Secure socket layer (SSL) is an example of public key/private key encryption.

Question 57

Each wireless network has a service set identifier.

Question 58

Results reporting is the process of scanning documents into a clinical system.

Question 59

Standard query language (SQL) is a type of database model.

Question 60

Voice recognition both records the information being said and understands what is being said.

Question 61

QR code technology allows for all kinds of documents to contain a QR code and be able to be read without a specialized bar code scanner.

Question 62

A good design of a Web page will enable the user to obtain the information in the fewest possible steps.

Question 63

Hypertext links on a Web page are usually used to reference materials that are available on a separate Web site.

Question 64

A business intelligence application is used for the same purpose as a decision support system.

Question 65

Clinical context object workstation (CCOW) is specifically mentioned in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.

Question 66

Virtual communities are an aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and/or mediated by technology.

Question 67

A business intelligence system could access community data systems and other external systems for its stated purposes with appropriate authorization.