Protect the health and safety of the public through surveillance.
Match the agency with its primary role in health information technology.
a. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
b. National Institutes of Health
c. Office of the National Coordinator
d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
e. Health Resources and Services Administration
Has the surgeon been notified of the spike in temperature? (Yes/No)
Following are several types of data commonly found in a health information system.
Match each according to the appropriate category it represents. When two possible
categories exist, select the €best€ category.
a. Text/categorical
b. Narrative/textual
c. Logic
d. Quantitative
One of the primary goals of the United Network of Organ Sharing is
a. To ensure that organs are available for persons who are in need.
b. To provide for the distribution of organs.
c. To provide governmental control of organs.
d. To inform providers of available organs.
Identifying potentially compensable events is one step in
a. Establishing clinical practice guidelines.
b. Financial planning to meet legal obligations.
c. Managing patient length of stay.
d. Negotiating managed care contracts.
The information contained in the databases developed from the patient record is
considered to be
a. Primary data.
b. Secondary data.
c. Tertiary data.
d. None of the above.
Coordinate policy and programs to develop, apply, and use health information
technology.
Match the agency with its primary role in health information technology.
a. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
b. National Institutes of Health
c. Office of the National Coordinator
d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
e. Health Resources and Services Administration
Immunization registries store data electronically on all National Vaccine Advisory
Committee€approved core data elements. Knowledge of vaccination rates helps to
determine
a. The potential need for rapid immunization in the event of bioterrorist attack.
b. Whether public health goals are being met.
c. Whether public health interventions are needed to increase immunization rates.
d. All of the above.
Assume that at a medical malpractice trial alleging that a sponge was left in a surgical
site, exactly 50% of the evidence favors the defendant surgeon, and 50% favors the
plaintiff. Would you agree that the plaintiff is more likely to win the case because of the
doctrine of res ipsa loquitur?
Which is a transaction-oriented information system?
a. REG-ADT system
b. Decision-support system
c. Executive information system
d. Data securing system
Historical cohort
Match the descriptor with the correct term.
a. Faulty memory
b. The tendency to select persons under frequent medical care
c. The tendency to ask questions differently or probe more if it is known that the person
has the disease
d. Quantifies the amount of risk due to a certain characteristic Ire/IRo
e. The ability of a test instrument to measure what it is supposed to measure
f. Identified by pre-existing records developed in the past
g. Accumulated period of time each person is in the study
h. Percent of all true non-cases correctly identified
i. Reliability between more than one research assistant or observer
j. Examples: all new employees within a hospital, all new students in the first grade
Health Information Management Services has an automated release of information
(ROI) system that was installed 4 years ago to assist staff in responding to requests for
information. The system is updated regularly to accommodate user needs and changes
in laws and regulations. Given this information, at what phase in the information
system’s life cycle is the ROI system?
a. Design phase
b. Implementation phase
c. Maintenance phase
d. Obsolescence phase
Clinical reference terminology
Match the following coding systems and terminologies with the appropriate descriptor.
a. ICD-9-CM
b. ICD-10
c. CPT
d. NOC
e. NDC
f. SNOMED CT g, DSM
g. Match the following coding systems and terminologies with the appropriate
descriptor.
h. DRG
i. LOINC
j. SNOP
One of the system characteristics required for Rocky Mountain’s point-of-care system is
“generate automatic drug overdue alert.” How would this system characteristic be
classified?
a. Input design
b. Output design
c. Processing design
d. File and database design
Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel reports to the National Committee
on Vital and Health Statistics.
Data have the quality of ____________________ when they are recorded at or near the
time of the event or observation.
When the HIM director and her management team are meeting to decide on the
necessities of a new coding system for ICD-11, they are in the ____________________
phase.
Health informatics is the science that deals with _________________, its
____________, ________________, and its _______________.
The establishment of statewide cancer registries in states where population-based
registries did not exist was a result of federal legislation.
An automated record tracking system is compatible with bar code symbols.
What kind of data is shown?
Infrastructure refers to hardware, software, systems, __________________________,
and data integration.