Most Health Care Organizations Are Drowning in Data, Yet Cannot

question 184

Multiple Choice

Most health care organizations are drowning in data, yet cannot get reliable, actionable insights from this data. Information from physician notes, registration forms, discharge summaries, documents and so on often go unused or are difficult for administrators and mangers to access. One of the primary reasons cited in your text for this problem is that _________________.

• A) Cutbacks in funding for IT departments have reduced their ability to operate effectively
• B) Users lack training and experience with modern software apps
• C) The data is "trapped" in silos
• D) Security policies that are too stringent

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Definitions:

Transitivity

A principle that if one option is preferred over a second, and the second is preferred over a third, then the first option is preferred over the third.

Consumer Preferences

The subjective tastes, as expressed by the utility function, that guide consumer choices in the marketplace.

Nonsatiation

The economic assumption that consumers always prefer more of a good to less, holding everything else constant.

Completeness

In decision theory, a property that states every set of choices can be ranked in an order of preference.