Informatics for Health Professionals

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Administrative Information Systems

Marianela Zytkowski, Susan Paschke, Dee McGonigle, and Kathleen Mastrian

OBJECTIVES

1. Explore agency-based health information systems.

2. Evaluate how administrators use core business systems in their practice.

3. Assess the function and information output from selected information systems used in health care organizations.

Key Terms

Acuity systems

Admission, discharge, and transfer systems

American National Standards Institute

Attribute

Care plan

Case management information system

Clinical documentation systems

Clinical information systems

Collaboration

Columns

Communication systems

Computerized physician (provider) order entry systems

Core business systems

Data dictionary

Data files

Data mart