Healthcare Imformatics
W2 Assignment
Understanding and
Planning Databases
After reading Chapter
3, submit a written response to these questions in your own words. Provide
details and use APA style formatting.
1.
What are the features
and advantages of relational databases and object-oriented databases?
2.
What are the fields,
records, and tables in databases?
3.
What is an algorithm?
What is Boolean Arithmetic? What is a data dictionary?
4.
Identify a specific
health or health delivery problem, and list the steps in planning a database
for the management of that problem. Begin with three questions that might be
asked and the fields to be included.