Health Management Information Systems

Question 1

A formal method of making available accurate
and timely information to management that is
necessary to facilitate the decision-making
process and enable the organization planning,
control and operational functions to be carried
out effectively.

Answer 1

Management Information System

Question 2

A set of components and procedures organized
with the objective of generating information
which will improve health care management
decisions at all levels of the health system.

Answer 2

Health Information System

Question 3

Association of Record Librarians of North
America (ARLNA) was formed only 10 years
after the beginning of the hospital
standardization movement. Changed name into what?

Answer 3

American Health
Information Management Association
(AHIMA)

Question 4

What’s the goal of AHIMA?

Answer 4

Elevate the standards of clinical
recordkeeping.

Question 5

identification data; complaint; personal
and family history; history of the
present illness; physical examination;
special examinations such as
consultations, clinical laboratory, x-ray
and other examinations; provisional or
working diagnosis; medical or surgical
treatment; gross or microscopical
pathological findings; progress notes;
final diagnosis; condition on discharge;
follow-up; and, in case of death,
autopsy findings.

Answer 5

Complete Medical Record

Question 6

An information-oriented management model
includes tasks associated with a broad range of
information services. Therefore, the tasks
performed as a health information manager–
in contrast to tasks performed as a medical
record manager– are information based,
“emphasizing data manipulation and
information management tasks and focusing
on the provision of an extensive range of
information services” (Johns 1991, 59)

Answer 6

Traditional Model of Practice

Question 7

Any collection of components that
work together to achieve a common objective.

Answer 7

System

Question 8

All the activities whose primary
purpose is to promote, restore or maintain
health

Answer 8

Health System

Question 9

Meaningful collection of facts or
data

Answer 9

Information

Question 10

Systems that provide
specific information support to the
decision-making process at each level of an
organization

Answer 10

Information System

Question 11

Determinants of HMIS Performance Area

Answer 11

1. Technical Determinants
2. Behavioral Determinants
3. Organizational Determinants

Question 12

PRISM

Answer 12

Performance of Routine Information Systems Management