Cerner Corporation Has Created a System That Helps Emergency Room

question 72

Multiple Choice

Cerner Corporation has created a system that helps emergency room physicians make decisions about what kind of treatment to give their patients.The system contains the medical records of more than 400,000 people who received treatment at more than 200 different emergency rooms.By comparing inputted information about a patient with information stored in the system,doctors can get a diagnosis and suggestions as to possible treatments.Which of the following best describes this system?

• A) a transaction processing system
• B) an information reporting system
• C) a decision support system
• D) an expert system

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Definitions:

Statistical Control Chart

A graphical tool used in quality control processes to analyze how a process changes over time, monitoring variability and detecting trends or shifts.

Critical Value

A threshold in statistics that a test statistic must exceed to reject a null hypothesis; it delineates the boundaries of the critical region.

Variances

The differences between planned or expected results and actual outcomes in budgeting and accounting.

Material Price Variances

The difference between the actual cost of materials and the expected or budgeted cost of materials in production processes.