Question: The Foundation of Knowledge model concepts are knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, and knowledge dissemination.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: What best explains the benefit of having an informatics expert in a healthcare practice environment?

Answer Choices:
A. Facilitate project management
\nB. Provide guidance as to what works best
\nC. Provide the presence of an authority figure
\nD. Recognize poor performance readily

Answer: B. Provide guidance as to what works best

 

Question: Information integrity is the dependability or trustworthiness of information. It encompasses the entire framework in which information is recorded, processed, and used. Whereas data quality focuses on guarding against and correcting bad data.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: Computer programs in health care that are not user friendly may affect the quality of patient care.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: Which is a characteristic of data quality?

Answer Choices:
a. Data Timeliness
\nb. All answers are correct
\nc. Data Accuracy
\nd. Data Accessibility

Answer: b. All answers are correct

 

Question: Information that is valuable and meaningful is:

Answer Choices:
A. Accessible and accurate
\nB. Timely and complete
\nC. Reliable and relevant
\nD. All of these are correct

Answer: D. All of these are correct

 

Question: Information science is the science of information, studying the application and usage of information and knowledge in organizations, and the interfacings or interaction between people, organizations, and information systems.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: What best describes the benefit of embracing the use of technology in healthcare practices?

Answer Choices:
A. Rapid access to information
\nB. All major organizations use it
\nC. Common practice with today’s youth
\nD. Knowledge and wisdom development

Answer: D. Knowledge and wisdom development

 

Question: Data are raw facts.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: “Clinical analytics” and “business intelligence” are

Answer Choices:
a. contemporary terms describing solutions designed to extract useful properties from data to enable clinical and organizational performance improvement
\nb. steps to introduce principles and practices of effective enterprise information management and information governance
\nc. responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care
\nd. organizational structures, policies, procedures, technology, and controls

Answer: a. contemporary terms describing solutions designed to extract useful properties from data to enable clinical and organizational performance improvement

 

Question: Stewardship is the responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care. Healthcare organizations are entrusted with managing patient data, and that responsibility is best performed if the organization’s stewardship values are laid out.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: Characteristics of valuable, quality information include accessibility, security, timeliness, accuracy, relevancy, completeness, flexibility, reliability, objectivity, utility, transparency, verifiability, and reproducibility.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: When referring to characteristic of data quality, Data Accuracy is

Answer Choices:
a. The extent to which the healthcare data are reliable and the same across applications
\nb. The extent to which data are up-to-date
\nc. The extent to which healthcare-related data are useful
\nd. The extent to which the data are free of identifiable errors

Answer: d. The extent to which the data are free of identifiable errors

 

Question: Computer science offers extremely valuable tools that, if used skillfully, can facilitate the acquisition and manipulation of data and information by professionals, who can then synthesize these into an evolving knowledge and wisdom base.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: True

 

Question: Which definition describes the information age?

Answer Choices:
A. Throughout history, whenever there has been a new discovery
\nB. An age when user models are related to a more complex system
\nC. A time when data is entered into a variety of devices
\nD. A period of time when data, information, and knowledge are accessible by more people than ever in history

Answer: D. A period of time when data, information, and knowledge are accessible by more people than ever in history

 

Question: Risks of information science technologies include:

Answer Choices:
A. Cutting-edge performances
\nB. Glitches and loss of information
\nC. Processing human-to-systems networking
\nD. The use of mental communications

Answer: B. Glitches and loss of information

 

Question: Explicit knowledge is personal knowledge that is not easily communicated or stored.

Answer Choices:
True
\nFalse

Answer: False

 

Question: Information science focuses on:

Answer Choices:
A. Effectively linking people, information, and technology
\nB. Organization and efficiency
\nC. Individual and universal systems
\nD. Networking between systems

Answer: A. Effectively linking people, information, and technology