Medical Informatics

2. ___ is a type of telemedicine with eh patient located in the community.
3. This is a type of clinical decision tool; a form listing one or more items of patient data to be collected before, during or after the encounter.
6. Clinical _____ is the use of medical information methods to aid management of patients using an interdisciplinary approach
8. Ontology is a description of the concepts and relations in a ___, such as drug prescribing.
9. Data quality is the ____ to which data items are accurate, complete and relevant.
12. ______ informatics is the study and application of methods to improve the management of patient data.
13. A database is a collection of data in machine readable format organized so that is can be retrieved automatically by a ____.
15. ____ is an example of a clinical coding system that uses convergent disease codes for international comparison.
17. Clinical _____ is organized patient data or medical knowledge used to make clinical decisions.
18. This is a process for carrying out a complex task broken down into simple decision and action steps
19. Communication is the exchange of information between ____.
20. ____ is the use of internet technology by the public, health works, and others to access health and lifestyle information.

1. A clinical coding system is a limited list of ____ terms from which the user can draw one or more to express a concept (patient data).
3. When using a clinical coding system, it is vital that the codes are never ____ or dropped, only added to; to prevent information loss.
4. Clinical coding systems play a key part in _____ studies and health service research.
5. A registry is a database and associated applications that collects a minimum dataset on a specific group of patients.
7. ____ is the technical methods by which confidentiality is achieved.
10. Organized data or knowledge used by human and computer agents to ___ uncertainty, take decisions and guide actions.
11. A reminder is a type of clinical decision tool that reminds a ___ about some item of patient data relevant to an individual.
14. The use of medical informatics methods to facilitate research in molecular ____.
16. Confidentiality is the policies that restrict access to a person's ___ to whom the patient agrees need access to them.
21. ___ is the lifelong summary of a person's health episodes, assembled from summaries of individual electronic patient records.