If you are filing records in terminal digit order using the 2-2-2 division, what would be
the number of the patient record immediately in front of and immediately behind
#132416?
a. 122416 and 142416
b. 131416 and 133416
c. 132415 and 132417
d. 122316 and 142516
Which one of the following organizations is currently responsible for the accreditation
of health care organizations?
a. American Health Association
b. Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management
Education
c. Department of Health and Human Services
d. Joint Commission
Certain protected health information can be disclosed to law enforcement personnel
without the patient’s authorization. Which of the following can be disclosed?
a. Investigating a suspicious death
b. Reporting child abuse and neglect
c. Reporting gunshot wounds
d. All of the above
Which study concurrently describes characteristics and health outcomes at one specific
point or period in time?
a. Case-control study
b. Prospective study
c. Prevalence or cross-sectional study
d. Clinical trial
What technique is used to maximize the number of ideas for problem analysis and
resolution?
a. Six sigma
b. Brainstorming
c. Flowcharting
d. Prioritization
Which of the following legislative acts is associated with the concepts of reasonable
accommodation and determining essential functions of the job?
a. Americans with Disabilities Act
b. Occupational Safety and Health Act
c. Title VII, Civil Rights Act
d. National Labor Relations Act
Which statement best describes the concept of equal employment opportunity?
a. Equal employment opportunity is the process of promoting protected groups to
achieve a balance in the workforce and correct past discriminatory practices.
b. Equal employment opportunity ensures that women have an equal chance for hiring
and promotion with men.
c. Equal employment opportunity is giving all people a fair chance to succeed without
discrimination that is based on factors unrelated to job performance such as sex, age,
race, religion, or national origin.
d. The existence of equal employment opportunity legislation has eliminated racial
discrimination and stereotyping in the workplace.
Which Act imposed new obligations on health care facilities to provide medical
screening examinations on patients before transferring them to other facilities?
a. ARRA
b. EMTALA
c. FOIA
d. HIPAA
In the process of finalizing the operating budget, the health information manager was
obligated to define the consequences if one or more of the department’s programs had to
be terminated (i.e., contracted transcription services, cancer registry, etc.). This implies
the hospital is using which budget method?
a. Flexible budget method
b. Rolling budget method
c. Zero-based budget method
d. None of the above
The new Rocky Mountain Hospice Care Center will be providing patient care
beginning January of next year. From which of the following resources can they
anticipate financial reimbursement for their services?
a. Medicaid
b. Private pay
c. Private insurance
d. All of the above
Which of the following values is NOT considered to be among the core standards for
ethical behavior in health care?
a. Fairness
b. Doing good
c. Nonmaleficence
d. Generosity
Of the following health care practitioners, which one is least likely to be eligible for
medical staff membership?
a. Podiatrist
b. Doctor of osteopathy
c. Nurse midwife
d. Dietetic technician
In a data dictionary notation for a data element, the “label” describes which of the
following?
a. The project
b. The data name
c. The data entry type
d. The data value or meaning
Two improvement tools that connect performance variables to outcomes are a
cause-and-effect diagram and a
a. Force field analysis.
b. Brainstorming.
c. Control chart.
d. Pareto chart.
Develops standards for medical devices
Match the following abbreviations with the descriptive statements.
a. MeSH
b. ASTM
c. DICOM
d. CHI
e. CAP
f. RELMA
g. HITSP
h. LOINC
i. NCVHS
j. NCPDP
k. IEEE
l. ISO
m. WHO
n. UMLS
o. NDC
OASIS
Match the descriptor with the correct abbreviation.
a. Comprehensive assessment of a long-term care patient
b. Data content standard by ASTM
c. Data set for hospitals used by federal and state agencies for billing
d. Agency that collects vital statistics data
e. Data set for ambulatory care
f. Agency that accredits rehabilitation organizations
g. Data set for home health care
h. Agency that encourages the use of guidelines to improve health care
i. Data set for long-term care
Name a data element comprising financial data.
Which one of the following is not considered a covered entity under the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
a. Sue’s Medical Billing Service: Sue works out of her home and processes the bills for
the physicians in her town.
b. Radiologist who contracts with a lawyer to interpret x-ray films for the lawyers’ cases
c. The human resource department of Widget Manufacturing, which manages the
employees’ health care benefits; Widget Manufacturing is self-insured for the
employees’ health care benefits.
d. Paramedics of a rural fire department
Individual with the disease under study
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
Interobserver reliability
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
A syndromic surveillance system would be used in treating a patient in a physician’s
office.
In litigation, the bailiff is in charge of deciding what laws are applicable to the case.
Under what conditions would you advocate developing a flexible budget?
Computer views should guide the data collection and data validation process.
There are variations in the coding rules for inpatient and outpatient coding of
International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM).
List one difference between thick-client and thin-client computers.
Applying a systems model of the organization places greater emphasis on the internal
functioning of individual units rather than on the interaction of units and of the
organization with its environment.
The principal source of reimbursement information is the clinical record.