Part 1: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into a single hospital information system?

a Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems

b Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines

Patient care systems & financial management systems are incompatible with each other

d Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals& Health

Care Organizations to maintain specific information for billing & accreditation purposes

Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient records

2. Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the technologist when building an integrated hospital information system?

a Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departmentsto agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case management model

bSynthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departmentsto agree to a single care model, realigning traditional departments into a case managementmodel

Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized information systems, gettingall departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case management model

d Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departmentsto agree to a single billing procedure, keeping all hospital departments within the traditional vertical structure

Allowing all departments to retain their individual information systems, allowing all departments to have their own billing system, keeping all hospital departments separatebut equal

3. The conceptual components of informatics are: