AHS 131 Midterm Review (Chapters 1-2 HIT) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What is the biggest set back to introducing EHRs in health care? - Correct Answers ✅The shortage of trained healthcare technology professionals needed to implement the new technologies.Describe HIT. - Correct Answers ✅Healthcare information technology is the use of hardware and software in an effort to manage and manipulate health data and information Give examples of hardware. - Correct Answers ✅keyboards, computers, printers, and network devices What is software? - Correct Answers ✅A set of instructions that helps hardware process data into information What is the difference between data and information? - Correct Answers ✅Data is raw facts with little or no meaning Information is data with meaning
GDP - Correct Answers ✅1960: 5.2% spent on healthcare
2007: 17% spent on healthcare
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AHS 131 Midterm Review (Chapters 1-2 HIT) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) CBO - Correct Answers ✅Congressional Budget Office declares advances in tech can be attributed to half of healthcare spending increases.PPACA - Correct Answers ✅Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enacted in 2010 by Barack Obama reduced cost over time What are some benefits to EMRs? - Correct Answers ✅Eliminates use of medical transcription Reduces the need to physically retrieve patient's charts or files Reminding prescribers to prescribe less costly drugs Reducing the # of duplicated diagnostic tests What is medical transcription? - Correct Answers ✅The conversion of handwritten/verbal doctor's orders or notes into electronic format What is CompTIA? - Correct Answers ✅a nonprofit organization and advocate for IT industry Cost of regulation - Correct Answers ✅Healthcare regulation in the US in 2004 cost $1 trillion
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