How Well Do You Know Health Informatics Terms?

What does CDSS stand for?

What is a care pathway?

Guided steps to procedures related to patient care
The expected course of patient management
The order in which different doctors are meant to be seen (i.e. general practitioner, specialist, surgeon, etc.)
The hospital hallways patients must navigate to see their doctor.

Define sequence alignment:

The linear arrangement of data sequences to provide insight into the effectiveness of care
The deliberate creation and placement of sequenced data sets into a larger data sample
The alignment of data to create a sequence of information that tells a chronological story
The comparison of two or more sequences by searching for a series of individual characters or patterns that are in the same order in the sequence

What does CPOE stand for?

Define aggregated data:

Data collected over long periods of time
Data that comes in different formats
Dirty data
Data that represents an entire population or sample rather than an individual or sub group

What is the Continuity of Care?

The passing of patients from one doctor to another
A measurement for the consistency of care over time that accounts for all aspects of the patient's care pathway
Having only one doctor
Seamless service through integration, coordination and the sharing of information between different providers

Select all of the abbreviations that can stand for an electronic version of medical record keeping:

What is the most common ICD-10 code?