1. In America, it is slow to adopt information technology because —————.

　　A) the funds invested by the government is not enough in the past

　　B) EHRs have received less attention of the public in the past

　　C) whether it will be useful to doctors or not is doubtful

　　D) UPMC knows how difficult it is to digitize the hospital

　　2. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) —————.

　　A) is the first medical center to adopt information technology

　　B) satisfy the requirement of the government on information technology

　　C) spent less money on information technology than it was estimated

　　D) attempted to created a universal EHR system, but met some difficulties

　　3. The health care network’s IT systems require a lot of effort to ensure it can communicate with one another mainly because —————..

　　A) the integration among different system is largely up to the IT staff

　　B) UPMC is like many other health care organizations in the United States

　　C) UPMC makes EHR systems look easy

　　D) UMPC began digitizing some of its records in 1996

　　4. The success of the EHR program is decided by —————..

　　A) the fact whether the information technology is available or not

　　B) the fact how well the doctors are trained to use the information technology

　　C) not only the presence of the technology but the doctor’s training on technology

　　D) the fact whether physicians can see the benefits of using EHR systems

　　5. The most important reason of most hospitals being reluctant to adopt EHR system is that —————.

　　A) the cost is too high for the hospital to afford

　　B) physicians are unwilling to adopt it

　　C) there is a lack of staff with adequate IT expertise

　　D) doctor worry about its negative influence on patients

　　6. According to the study led by David Himmelstein through health IT —————.

　　A) it is possible to cut the costs of the hospital

　　B) it is possible to improve the health care

　　C) it ensure neither cost saving nor improvement in care

　　D) it could save as much as $100 million annually

　　7. The hospital’s managers prefer to —————.

　　A) spend money on an expensive piece of equipment than on information technology

　　B) charge patients access to the information technology as a billable service

　　C) purchase the information technology to improve the health care of the hospital

　　D) invest more money on the training of the physicians to charge patients more money

　　8. Jha said the mere act of implementing the technology guarantees ______________________.

　　9. D'Avolio says the investment on lab equipment can be made up by_____________________.

　　10. Databases of vital signs, images, laboratory values, medications, diseases, interventions, and patient demographic information could be ____________________.

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