Lesson 3

Question 1

Social Determinants of Health

Answer 1

Conditions in the environment that affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality of life outcomes and risks.

Question 2

Five Categories of SDoH

Answer 2

Education Access and Quality
Health Care and Quality
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Social and Community Context
Economic Stability

Question 3

Health Informatics

Answer 3

The modern combination of information and technology, healthcare as a business and the patient experience.

Question 4

History of Biomedical Informatics

Answer 4

First published by Ledley in 1950s, NIH involvement in the 1960s leading to creation of graduate programs, 1987 medical informatics is added as a MeSH term in NLM controlled vocab. Currently growing at a rate of 12%.

Question 5

Bioinformatics

Answer 5

Applying computer tech and 3D modeling to cellular and molecular biology, genetics

Question 6

Clinical Informatics

Answer 6

Collecting and applying info technology to deliver healthcare services and improve care by organizations, use of EHR data

Question 7

Sociotechnical and Human-Centered Design

Answer 7

The use of health information technology by healthcare practices, including professionals and patients

Question 8

Translational Research Informatics

Answer 8

Bench to bedside work

Question 9

Pharmacy Informatics

Answer 9

Applying medication related data

Question 10

Biomedical Ontology

Answer 10

Controlled vocabularies that are used in describing the meaning of data in a human or machine readable way

Question 11

Consumer Health Informatics

Answer 11

Consumer and patient views; examines patient information from the health literacy, consumer knowledge and education point of view

Question 12

Public Health Informatics

Answer 12

Systematic application of information, computer science and tech to public health practices, research and learning such as health surveillance, education, prevention, outbreak management and reporting.

Question 13

Goal of Biomedical Informatics

Answer 13

Improve healthcare delivery to patients in all settings; improvement at personal and professional level

Question 14

Medical Data Sources

Answer 14

social media, mobile and sensory data, patient medical characteristics, hospital resource records, ED / ICU records, passenger and travel data

can be structured, semi-structured or unstructured

Question 15

GIS-Community Asset Mapping

Answer 15

Figure out what things are lacking from specific communities and contributing to SDoH using census data.