FINAL 02 - Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Informatics

Question 1

___________ should govern research and practice in the health professions

Answer 1

Human values

Question 2

__________, like other health professions, encompasses issues of appropriate and inappropriate behavior, of honorable and disreputable actions, and of right and wrong

Answer 2

Healthcare informatics

Question 3

__________ is a kind of lens we use to identify issues and a lever used to formulate and motivate best practices

Answer 3

Ethics

Question 4

___________ is a tool to employ widely shared if not universal values to contemporary questions and challenges in the health professions

Answer 4

Applied ethics

Question 5

__________ is the branch of applied ethics that addresses issues in the health professions

Answer 5

Bioethics

Question 6

___________ have an obligation to be familiar with evidence after attaining minimal acceptable levels of familiarity of informatics in general

Answer 6

Clinicians

Question 7

__________ is a process rather than an event, so even well-validated diagnostic systems must be used appropriately in the overall context of patient care

Answer 7

Diagnosis

Question 8

__________ and __________ are necessary for people to mature as individuals, to form relationships, and to serve as functioning members of society (PC)

Answer 8

Privacy, Confidentiality

Question 9

__________ generally applies to people, including their desire not to suffer eavesdropping

Answer 9

Privacy

Question 10

__________ is best applied to information

Answer 10

Confidentiality

Question 11

__________ studies health care information and communication, both of which have been greatly affected in recent users

Answer 11

Health informatics

Question 12

Meaning of EMR

Answer 12

Electronic medical records

Question 13

Meaning of CPOE

Answer 13

Computerized provider order entry

Question 14

__________ requires refraining from harming patients

Answer 14

Nonmaleficence

Question 15

__________ entails providing beneficial care

Answer 15

Beneficence

Question 16

__________ also includes preventing harm

Answer 16

Beneficence

Question 17

___________ seeks a fair distribution of resources and responsibilities

Answer 17

Justice

Question 18

__________ exists not only in an institution’s electronic medical records, but is also made available through health information exchanges, personal health records, and patient portals

Answer 18

Health information

Question 19

Meaning of HIPAA

Answer 19

Health insurance portability and accountability act

Question 20

Meaning of VPN

Answer 20

Virtual private network

Question 21

Meaning of HIE

Answer 21

Health information exchange

Question 22

__________ is a National Health Information Network (NHIN) or Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN)

Answer 22

HIE

Question 23

Meaning of CIT

Answer 23

Content importing technology

Question 24

__________ exists when such information is in a discrete form that can be optimally stored in the fields of a dabatase

Answer 24

Structured data

Question 25

__________ and __________ could yield important previously undetected patterns about patient symptoms, diseases, treatments, and complications (DD)

Answer 25

Data querying, Data mining

Question 26

Meaning of TPO

Answer 26

Treatment, payment, or operations

Question 27

Too many warnings can cause ___________

Answer 27

Alert fatigue

Question 28

The explosion of social media during the last decade has created many opportunities in health care for using the web and mobile devices; some of these are characterized as __________

Answer 28

Consumer informatics

Question 29

Associated informatics-related fields or subfields are __________ (mobile devices) and ___________ (electronic delivery, such as online eVisits) (ME)

Answer 29

mHealth, eHealth

Question 30

Meaning of DTC

Answer 30

Direct-to-consumer

Question 31

Meaning of PHI

Answer 31

Protected health information

Question 32

Meaning of NHIN

Answer 32

National health information network

Question 33

Meaning of NwHIN

Answer 33

Nationwide health information network

Question 34

Copy-paste functionality may be called __________ and __________ (PC)

Answer 34

Pull previous, Copy forward

Question 35

__________ are now available for viewing and paying on financial accounts, as well as accessing limited clinical data

Answer 35

Patient portals