Question: What best describes the benefit of embracing the use of technology in healthcare practices?
Answer Options:
A. Rapid access to information
B. All major organizations use it
C. Common practice with today’s youth
D. Knowledge and wisdom development
Answer: A. Rapid access to information
Question: A working definition of information governance is:
Answer Options:
a. the responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.
b. the dependability or trustworthiness of information.
c. contemporary term describing solutions designed to extract useful properties from data.
d. the leadership and organizational structures, policies, procedures, technology, and controls that ensure data and information sustain the organization’s mission.
Answer: d. the leadership and organizational structures, policies, procedures, technology, and controls that ensure data and information sustain the organization’s mission.
Question: Information life cycle has five stages, which of the following is not considered a unique point in the lifecycle, however it does support the other phases:
Answer Options:
a. Classification and metadata.
b. Record creation, capture, or receipt.
c. Record preservation and retention.
d. Record audit and data controls.
Answer: a. Classification and metadata.
Question: _______ allows users to apply their intellect to accomplish their tasks while the tools housing the information disappear from conscious thought.
Answer Options:
A. Verifiability
B. Transparency
C. Utility
D. Reproducibility
Answer: B. Transparency
Question: Computer technology has ushered in what has been called the “information age,” an age when:
Answer Options:
A. Data, information, and knowledge are accessible and able to be manipulated by more people than ever.
B. Data and information are both accessible and manipulated by more people.
C. Knowledge is accessible and able to be manipulated by more people.
D. None of these are correct.
Answer: A. Data, information, and knowledge are accessible and able to be manipulated by more people than ever.
Question: Computer science can facilitate:
Answer Options:
A. Acquiring data and information
B. Manipulating data and information
C. Synthesizing knowledge and wisdom
D. Acquiring and manipulating data and information
Answer: D. Acquiring and manipulating data and information
Question: Tacit knowledge is knowledge that is easily communicated and stored, for example, documents and procedures.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The deluge of information available via computers must be mastered and organized by the user if knowledge is to emerge.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The awareness and understanding of a net of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or to arrive at a decision is called:
Answer Options:
A. Knowledge
B. Information
C. Acquisition
D. Dissemination
Answer: A. Knowledge
Question: Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of a set of information, and ways that information is useful for supporting a specific task or arriving at a decision.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The main components of a computer-based information system are:
Answer Options:
A. Hardware, software, and telecommunications tools
B. Data input tools and output video components
C. Hardware and software
D. The keyboard, monitor, mouse, and power source
Answer: A. Hardware, software, and telecommunications tools
Question: What describes the broader impact of the evolution of information science?
Answer Options:
A. Facilitation of the application and use of technology to serve an organization
B. Management of personal computers within the organization
C. Identification of the origin of computer technology
D. Knowledge of healthcare’s reluctance to embrace technology
Answer: A. Facilitation of the application and use of technology to serve an organization
Question: What is sometimes thought of as the highest form of common sense, resulting from accumulated knowledge or erudition (deep, thorough learning) or enlightenment?
Answer Options:
A. Knowledge
B. Wisdom
C. Information
D. Data
Answer: B. Wisdom
Question: When referring to characteristic of data quality, Data Precision is:
Answer Options:
a. The specific meaning of a healthcare related data element.
b. The level of detail at which the attributes and values of healthcare data are defined.
c. The extent to which the data are free of identifiable errors.
d. Data values should be strictly stated to support the purpose.
Answer: b. The level of detail at which the attributes and values of healthcare data are defined.
Question: Virtual communication technology may be beneficial for healthcare workers, as it:
Answer Options:
A. Allows opportunities for exchange of ideas
B. Is limited to use by professionals
C. Is accessed during the night shift
D. Requires the use of a flash drive
Answer: A. Allows opportunities for exchange of ideas
Question: Processed data is information when it has meaning.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True