Assigning three health information management professionals to 35 full-time equivalent
staff members in a health information management department to handle release of
information requests is an example of which type of work organization?
a. Project
b. Customer
c. Process
d. Territory
Which is a primary function of American Health Information Management Association?
a. Certification
b. Licensure
c. Program accreditation
d. Both a and c
What is an infection called that occurs more than 72 hours after admission?
a. Community-acquired infection
b. Comorbidity
c. Complication
d. Nosocomial infection
CMS attempts to make the Medicare beneficiary a better informed public consumer of
health care for inpatient services by providing which of the following?
a. Health Grades
b. Hospital Compare
c. Texas Medical Foundation Health Quality Institute
d. Agency for Health Care Research & Quality
Which of the following for an EHR system would likely appear in the technical
requirements section of an RFP?
a. Accept demographic data from the admission-discharge-registration system.
b. The system allows for user-defined product lines.
c. All drug orders are automatically screened for contraindications.
d. The system is menu-driven.
Where are the Conditions of Participation regulations that govern the Medicare
Program printed?
a. AHA Guide to the Health Care Field
b. Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals
c. Federal Register
d. Medicare Handbook
Which term refers to a primary care physician who is participating in a comprehensive
managed care plan by providing most of the care to the patient?
a. Participant
b. Enrollee
c. Subscriber
d. Gatekeeper
If an emergency department physician fails to stabilize an indigent patient before
transferring the patient to another facility, he or she is in violation of
a. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
b. Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
c. Patient Self-Determination Act.
d. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Which of the following activities is supported by patient data?
a. Evaluation of care
b. Clinical education
c. Financial viability
d. All of the above
Data collected from births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, deaths, and fetal deaths are
all considered
a. Registers of events.
b. Vital statistics.
c. Public health statistics.
d. Epidemiological data.
Characteristics that could cause the disease
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Institutional review board
d. Risk factors
e. Specificity
f. Confounding variables
g. Case
h. Control
i. Research question
j. Historical-prospective study
k. Recall bias
l. Interviewer bias
Which data set was developed for capturing primary data on outpatients and clinic
patients?
a. Uniform Clinical Data Set
b. Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set
c. Ambulatory Care Group Case Mix Management System
d. Minimum Data Set
The phases of development, growth maturity, and deterioration are generally considered
the
a. Information systems life cycle.
b. System development life cycle.
c. General system life cycle.
d. Strategic Plan.
Communications technology is the connecting medium for local area networks (LANs)
and wide area networks (WANs).
The UHDDS is a no segmented data set.
Saint Elsewhere Community Hospital is considering investing $90,000 in new
transcription equipment to replace its current equipment, which is completely
depreciated and outmoded. An alternative to this investment is a long-term contract
with a local transcription firm to perform the transcription service. It is expected that
the hospital would save $20,000 per year in operating costs if the transcription was
performed internally. The expected and depreciable life of the equipment is 6 years.
Calculate the net present value of the investment.
In a database, a row is a data field.
Bar code technology cannot be used for tracking radiology file folders.
What are the typical five roles defined in role-based access control (RBAC)?
____________________ is a measure of how often data are classified in the same
manner.
Good forms design divides forms into logical sections by rules.