Exam 8: The Impact of Information Technology on Society

Clinical decision support (CDS) is a process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcare-related decision making through the use of clinical knowledge and patient-specific information to improve healthcare delivery.

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More advanced artificial-intelligence-based clinical decision support systems can help doctors choose the proper dosage levels of medication based on a patient's most recent tests results.

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Question 22

Electronic medical records capture data on the total health of the patient and include more than just the standard clinical data collected in the provider's office thus enabling a broader view of a patient's care.

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Question 23

Advances in which of the following areas are fundamentally changing the way work gets done and have the potential to affect the tasks, roles, and responsibilities of most workers?

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Question 24

In the early days of IT in the 1960s, productivity improvements were difficult to measure.

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Question 25

Which of the following helps physicians keep tabs on patients prone to life-threatening health crises?

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Question 26

Live telemedicine requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at the same site.

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Question 27

Since businesses implemented automated payroll systems, fewer accounting employees are needed.

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Question 28

Which of the following technologies employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care, provide professional and patient health-related training, and support healthcare administration?

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Question 29

What type of system enables physicians to place orders electronically, with the order transmitted directly to the recipient?

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Question 30

Which of the following is NOT one of the three major components of machine learning systems?

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Question 31

What is another name for a tethered PHR?

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Question 32

The primary areas where IT has been applied include all of the following except:

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Question 33

Briefly describe how store-and-forward telemedicine is being used in radiology today.

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Question 34

Effective use of CDS systems increases the quality of patient care but at the expense of rising healthcare costs.

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Question 35

What type of artificial intelligence involves computer programs that can learn some task and improve performance with experience?

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Question 36

Computers and robots can perform a wide range of routine physical work activities better, cheaper, faster, and more safely than humans.

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Question 37

Innovation is a key factor in productivity improvement. Which of the following has played an important role in enabling innovation?

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Question 38

Which of the following systems include the people, procedures, hardware, software, data, and knowledge needed to develop computer systems and machines that simulate human intelligence processes?

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Question 39

IT investments may produce tangible results such as:

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Clinical decision support (CDS) is a process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcare-related decision making through the use of clinical knowledge and patient-specific information to improve healthcare delivery.

More advanced artificial-intelligence-based clinical decision support systems can help doctors choose the proper dosage levels of medication based on a patient's most recent tests results.

Electronic medical records capture data on the total health of the patient and include more than just the standard clinical data collected in the provider's office thus enabling a broader view of a patient's care.

Advances in which of the following areas are fundamentally changing the way work gets done and have the potential to affect the tasks, roles, and responsibilities of most workers?

In the early days of IT in the 1960s, productivity improvements were difficult to measure.

Which of the following helps physicians keep tabs on patients prone to life-threatening health crises?

Live telemedicine requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at the same site.

Since businesses implemented automated payroll systems, fewer accounting employees are needed.

Which of the following technologies employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care, provide professional and patient health-related training, and support healthcare administration?

What type of system enables physicians to place orders electronically, with the order transmitted directly to the recipient?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three major components of machine learning systems?

What is another name for a tethered PHR?

The primary areas where IT has been applied include all of the following except:

Briefly describe how store-and-forward telemedicine is being used in radiology today.

Effective use of CDS systems increases the quality of patient care but at the expense of rising healthcare costs.

What type of artificial intelligence involves computer programs that can learn some task and improve performance with experience?

Computers and robots can perform a wide range of routine physical work activities better, cheaper, faster, and more safely than humans.

Innovation is a key factor in productivity improvement. Which of the following has played an important role in enabling innovation?

Which of the following systems include the people, procedures, hardware, software, data, and knowledge needed to develop computer systems and machines that simulate human intelligence processes?

IT investments may produce tangible results such as:

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