Health informatics is the combination of principles from: - CORRRECT ANSWER
Disciplinary Science
Computer Science
Information Science
Cognitive
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Why Study Informatics? - CORRRECT ANSWER Healthcare is information intensive
Interprofessional collaboration and communication are essential for care coordination to
promote safe, evidence-based, efficient, and cost-effective care.
Technology tools help us to collect, integrate, and manage clinical information
Informatics - CORRRECT ANSWER The science of information management in health
care
All healthcare workers, regardless of discipline, need a basic understanding of
informatics principles (how are data, information, and knowledge used in the discipline,
and how does this understanding promote wisdom in practice?)
Core Elements of Informatics - CORRRECT ANSWER The data, information,
knowledge, wisdom (DIKW) paradigm
The foundation of disciplinary knowledge, based on the Foundation of Knowledge
Model
Informatics competencies needed by all healthcare professionals to practice in the
information intensive 21st-century healthcare environments
Data - CORRRECT ANSWER Raw FActs
Information - CORRRECT ANSWER data that has been interpreted for meaning;
processed data that has meaning
Data that is processed using knowledge
Knowledge - CORRRECT ANSWER the awareness and understanding of a set of
information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or
arrive at a decision
Wisdom - CORRRECT ANSWER appropriate use of knowledge
Use of Knowlege - CORRRECT ANSWER Individuals have an amazing ability to
manage knowledge; this ability is learned and honed from birth
We experience our environment and learn by acquiring, processing, generating, and
disseminating knowledge
Foundation of Knowledge Model - CORRRECT ANSWER Organizing conceptual
framework for text
Helps to explain the ties between disciplinary science and informatics and knowledge
Informatics is viewed as a tool for finding knowledge
HCAD 750 Module 1
KA - CORRRECT ANSWER Knowledge Acquisition
KD - CORRRECT ANSWER Knowledge dissemination
KG - CORRRECT ANSWER Knowledge Generation
KP - CORRRECT ANSWER Knowledge processing
Professionals are knowledge workers - CORRRECT ANSWER Work with information;
generate information and knowledge as a product
Professionals are knowledge acquirers - CORRRECT ANSWER Provide convenient
and efficient means of capturing and storing knowledge
We are knowledge useres - CORRRECT ANSWER Individuals or groups who benefit
from valuable, viable knowledge
Professionals are knowledge engineers - CORRRECT ANSWER Design, develop,
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