Health Information Technology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Health Information Technology explores the use of information systems and digital tools in the collection, storage, management, and exchange of health information within healthcare settings. The course covers key concepts such as electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchange, data privacy and security, regulatory requirements, and the impact of technology on patient care and healthcare operations. Students will examine the benefits and challenges of implementing health IT solutions, gain insight into current trends, and learn about the roles and responsibilities of health information professionals in supporting informed decision-making and improving healthcare outcomes.
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Health Information Management of a Strategic Resource 5th Edition by Mervat Abdelhak
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Chapter 1: Health Care Systems
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Q1) What type of care is primarily provided to hospice patients?
A) Palliative
B) Curative
C) Diagnostic
D) Therapeutic
Answer: A
Q2) Which publication communicates the goals and objectives for promoting health and preventing disease in the United States?
A) Conditions of Participation
B) Medicare Handbook
C) Healthy People: 2010
D) Flexner Report
Answer: C
Q3) Which legislation increased the public's awareness of patient rights, advance directives, and options for health care?
A) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
B) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
C) Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act
D) Patient Self-Determination Act
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Health Informatics and Information Management Profession
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Q1) Current Joint Commission standards emphasize departmentalized health care versus integrated health care.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is a legitimate and stated use of health information according to American Health Information Management Association?
A) The development of public policy on health care
B) The brokering of patient data for health care marketing
C) The prevention of disease and the promotion of health
D) Both a and c
Answer: D
Q3) The process of assessing the quality of physician education by the American College of Surgeons in the early 1900s was dependent on the quality of the patient record.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Health Information Infrastructure and Systems
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Q1) According to the Department of Health and Human Services report "Framework for Strategic Action, The Decade of HIT: Delivering Consumer-Centric and Information-Rich Health Care," linking electronic health records nationwide is an important goal.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality mandates the use of health care data standards to improve the quality of care.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Advisory body for health information policy
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
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Health Data Concepts and Information
Governance
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Q1) Transposition of a patient medical record number can be detected by a
A) Check digit.
B) Sequencing check.
C) Format check.
D) Transaction check.
Q2) Name a data element comprising clinical data.
Q3) All the following are associated with creating standards for the electronic exchange of health care data EXCEPT
A) HL7
B) X12N
C) ASTM
D) NPDB
Q4) Within how many hours, according to The Joint Commission, must all verbal orders associated with a potential hazard to the patient be authenticated?
A) 24 hours
B) 48 hours
C) 72 hours
D) Within a time frame defined in the medical staff rules and regulations
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Q5) Name a data element comprising socioeconomic data.
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Chapter 5: Data Access and Retention
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Q1) When water damage has compromised a large volume of paper health records in the file unit during a flood or other kind of water disaster, one immediate action to take is to
A) Air dry this large volume of records.
B) Turn on the air conditioning.
C) Separate all coated paper such as electrocardiograms.
D) Move all records outside to dry.
Q2) Alphabetical filing systems can be maintained without a separate master patient index.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An alphabetically arranged database used for the location of patient records in a numeric identification system is called a ______________________________.
Q4) Which is an important attribute to consider when purchasing a digital image scanner?
A) Storage capacity
B) Access speed
C) Page speed
D) Exchange speed
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Chapter 6: Electronic Health Record Systems
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Q1) When considering how users retrieve information from an electronic health record (EHR), implementers should consider
A) Document titles.
B) Templates.
C) Copying and pasting.
D) Timeliness.
Q2) Which data type are International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes?
A) Text
B) Alphanumeric
C) Image
D) None of the above
Q3) When printing from an EHR, the volume of paper used decreases.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which is a transaction-oriented information system?
A) REG-ADT system
B) Decision-support system
C) Executive information system
D) Data securing system
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Chapter 7: Classification Systems, Clinical Vocabularies and Terminology
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Q1) Provides standard descriptors for procedures
A)ICD-9-CM
B)ICD-10
C)CPT
D)NOC
E)NDC
F)SNOMED CT
G)DSM
H)DRG
I)LOINC
J)SNOP
Q2) Data exchange of semantic content means the meaning of the message is sent and received.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Classifications are intended to aggregate and group information.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Write one reason why there is a need to upgrade ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS.
Q5) List the five axes used by the LOINC naming nomenclature.
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Chapter 8: Technology, Applications and Security
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Q1) A hospital is trying to determine the cause of the recent increase in the average length of stay. Explain why a data mining approach to answering this question might be useful.
Q2) Frames are required to be in each Web page containing health information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A good design of a Web page will enable the user to obtain the information in the fewest possible steps.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Provide two examples of what can be read by a biometric device.
Q5) Contrast a decision-support and a business intelligence system.
Q6) Which is a system designed to acquire, store, retrieve, and display digital images?
A) Registration/admission, discharge, transfer system
B) Database management system
C) Computerized order entry system
D) Picture archiving and communication system
Q7) What is the term given to the study of medical computing?
Q8) Explain what S-HTTP refers to.
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Chapter 9: Health Information Systems: Collaboration,
Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Operations
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Q1) The Director of HIMS has calculated the break-even point for purchase of a new transcription system to be four years. Is this analysis correct?
A) Yes, because the break-even point does not consider the time it will take for a system to recover its investment costs fully.
B) Yes, because the break-even point calculates the difference between the current system costs and new system costs.
C) No, because the break-even point does not consider the time it will take for a system to recover its investment costs fully.
D) No, because the break-even point does not calculate the difference between current system and new system costs.
Q2) When a HIM director realizes there is a problem with attending physicians receiving their transcribed reports in the EHR for authentication, she decides to use tools to identify where the issue(s) is(are) occurring. The general term for these tools is(are) ___________________________ tools.
Q3) A _______________manual lists, defines, and describes system features, while a _______________manual describes system features critical to specific users.
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Chapter 10: Statistics and Data Presentation
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Q1) What is the term for the number of existing cases of a disease?
A) Incidence
B) Prevalence
C) Mortality
D) Morbidity
Q2) Ten patients were discharged from the obstetrical service on May 4 at Rocky Mountain Hospital. The day's stay for each patient was 3, 2, 1, 1, 6, 5, 1, 2, 2, and 4. What was(were) the mode(s) for these patients?
A) 1
B) 2
C) 1 and 2
D) 3
Q3) 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.
Q4) The ____________________ is the average number of observations.
Q5) A whole number divided in 100 parts is a ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Research and Epidemiology
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Q1) Life-table analysis is most appropriate for prospective or experimental studies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Relative risk
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
Q3) The hypothesis is an opinion or value judgment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Performance Management and Patient Safety
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Q1) To achieve lasting performance improvements, managers should focus on
A) Training people in performance management skills.
B) Testing redesigned processes.
C) Keeping abreast on changing regulations and incentives having to do with performance improvement.
D) All of the above.
Q2) When a physician reviews the health records of another physician, this is often called peer review.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model?
A) Six sigma
B) Affinity modeling
C) Rapid cycle improvement
D) Nominal group technique
Q4) The role of HIM professionals in performance management and patient safety improvement is crucial to collect and analyze performance data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Data Analytics: Reporting, Interpretation, and Use
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Q1) Data analyses are dealing with the process of
A) Inspecting data to make sure data are appropriate.
B) Cleaning data to make sure data can be used accurately.
C) Transforming data to make sure data can be analyzed for appropriate format.
D) Modeling data to generalize useful results.
E) All of the above.
Q2) The establishment of statewide cancer registries in states where population-based registries did not exist was a result of federal legislation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All the following are included in the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, 3rd edition (ICD-O-3) coding scheme except
A) Differentiation.
B) Etiology.
C) Grading.
D) Morphology.
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Chapter 14: Public Health Informatics
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Q1) Mexico has more current cases of tuberculosis than the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Stage One of Meaningful Use for Public Health requires that an eligible professional successfully submit one test submission for each of these three types of data: lab data, syndromic surveillance data, and immunization data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Stage Two of Meaningful Use for Public Health requires public health agencies to be able to receive patient-identified data based on syndromic surveillance rules and send alerts to health care providers about public health events.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One Health Port services in Washington State include(s)
A) Standard mapping for the continuity of care document.
B) Physician orders for controlled substances.
C) Eligibility verifications.
D) Both a and c
Q5) Eradicating tuberculosis is an example of a _____________________goal.
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Chapter 15: Privacy and Health Law
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Q1) A legal document requiring someone to come before the court and testify is called a ____________________.
Q2) In a given situation, it is determined that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Regulations preempted another law. This means that the law that applies to the situation is
A) HIPAA Privacy Regulations.
B) The other law.
C) Neither HIPAA nor the other law.
D) Both HIPAA and the other law.
Q3) The U.S. Bill of Rights is a source of ____________________ law.
Q4) When a surgeon promises there is no chance of disfigurement resulting from plastic surgery and disfigurement happens, a breach of guarantee has occurred.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Negligence action(s) include(s)
A) Assault and battery.
B) Corporate negligence.
C) Malpractice.
D) Both b and c
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Chapter 16: Human Resource Management
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Q1) All the following fall under provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act EXCEPT
A) Overtime pay.
B) Child labor.
C) Collective bargaining.
D) Working hours.
Q2) If layoffs are inevitable, what are some options that a human resource manager may take to reduce the amount of human suffering associated with a loss of job?
Q3) The principle of "employment at will" protects the employee from termination without just cause.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Americans with Disabilities Act requires the organization to determine and document explicitly the essential functions of the job.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The National Labor Relations Act prohibits employers from engaging in which specific unfair labor practices?
Q6) Name three reasons why job analysis is useful.
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Chapter 17: Operational Management
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Q1) Repetitive strain or stress injuries are a potential problem for medical transcriptionists.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the process of determining the ____________________ for health information services, answers must be developed for these questions: "Who are we?" and "What are we?"
Q3) A statistical report of the quarterly clinical record review that contains errors and needs to be redone would be counted as a "productive unit of work."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Work sampling using random observations is effective because
A) Data are obtained with less time and expense.
B) The employee gets the manager's attention.
C) The manager can see whether work is distributed equitably.
D) It interrupts the normal work routine for shorter periods of time.
Q5) When the transcription supervisor at Mercy Hospital calls three of her transcription manager colleagues to find out about their productivity standards for transcriptionists, she is using what management tool?
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Chapter 18: Revenue Cycle and Financial Management
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Q1) What does writing off accounts receivable mean?
Q2) A free-standing ambulatory care center incurs medical record folder costs of $3 per new patient and has a monthly rent payment on its space of $12,000. Which of these is a variable cost?
Q3) If an organization wants to know how long the collection period is that it is extending to its debtors on average, it would likely calculate the long-term debt ratio.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _____ ratios measure the ability of an organization to meet its short- and long-term obligations.
A) Accounts receivable
B) Capitalization
C) Liquidity
D) Turnover
Q5) Explain each of the following: accounting rate of return, payback method, and net present value.
Q6) The manager wants to calculate the operating margin ratio to evaluate the use of the department's resources in achieving its desired goals. What formula (data) should be used?
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