Question 1
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The name of the government agency that has led the development of basic data sets for health records and computer databases is the:
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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John Hopkins University
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American National Standards Institute
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National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
Question 2
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Minimum data set in healthcare are developed to:
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Recommend common data elements to be collected in health records
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Mandate all data that must be contained in a health record
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Define reportable data for federally funded programs
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Standardize medical vocabulary
Question 3
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Data that are collected from individual records and then combined are referred to as:
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Statistics
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Information
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Aggregate data
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Standards
Question 4
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The inpatient data set that has been incorporated into federal law and is required for Medicare reporting is the:
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Ambulatory Care Data Set
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Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
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Minimum Data Set for Long-term Care
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Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set
Question 5
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Both HEDIS and the Joint Commission's ORYX program are designed to collect data to be used for:
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Performance improvement programs
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Billing and claims data processing
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Developing hospital discharge abstracting systems
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Developing individual care plans for residents
Question 6
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Critique this statement: The continutity care record contains only current clincial information:
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This is a true statement.
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This is a false statement as the CCR contains both current and future plans
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This is a false statement as the CCR contains both past information
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This is a false statement as the CCR contains both future and past clinical information.
Question 7
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Standardizing medical terminology to avoid differences in naming various medical conditions and procedures (such as the synonyms bunionectomy, McBride procedure, and repair of hallus valgus) is one purpose of:
Question 8
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The federal law that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop healthcare standards governing electronic data interchange and data security is the:
Question 9
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A key technology tool for enabling data is:
Question 10
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Most healthcare informatics standards have been implemented by:
Question 11
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A critical early step in designing an EHR is to developed a ____ in which the characteristics of each data element are defined
Question 12
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According to the UHDDS definiton, ethnicity should be recorded on a patient record as:
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Race of mother
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Race of father
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Hispanic, non-hispanic, unknown
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Free text descriptor as reported by patient
Question 13
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Mary Smith, RHIA has been asked to work on the develpment of a hospital trauma data registry. Which of the following data sets would be most helpful in developing this registry?
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DEEDS
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UACDS
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MDS Version 3.0
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OASIS
Question 14
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While the focus of inpatient data collection is on the principal diagnosis, the focus of ______ outpatient data collection is on:
Question 15
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In long term care, the resident's care plan is based on data collected in the:
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UHDDS
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OASIS
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MDS Version 3.0
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HEDIS
Question 16
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Reinbursement for home health services in dependent of data collected from:
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HEDIS
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UHDDS
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OASIS
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MDS Version 3.0
Question 17
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A consumer interested in comparing the performance of health plans should review data from:
Question 18
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Administrative data
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Claims data
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Health record review data
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Administrative, claims, and health record review data
Question 19
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Each of the three dimensions (personal, provider, community) of information defined by the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) contains specific recommendations for:
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government regulations
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core data elements
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privacy controls
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technology requirements
Question 20
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A statewide cancer surveillance system is an example of which of the NHII dimensions?
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Personal
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Provider
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Community
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Payer
Question 21
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Providers and health plans need to share information. What standard must they use?
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X12N
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LOINC
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IEE 1073
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DICOM
Question 22
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A radiology department is planning to develop a remote clinic and plans to transmit images for diagnostic purposes. The most important standards to implement in order to transmit images is:
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X12N
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LOINC
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IEEE 1073
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DICOM
Question 23
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I work for outpatient surgery center. What data set should I use?
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Continuity of Care Record
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Minimum data set
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Uniform Ambulatory Care data set
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Uniform Hospital Discarge data set
Question 24
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Laboratory data is succnessfully transmitted back and forth from Community Hospital to three local physician clinics. This successful transmission is dependent on which of the following standards?
Question 25
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As many private and public standards groups promulgate health informatics standards, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has been given resposibility for:
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Developing unique provider indentifiers
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Finalizing the extensible markup language
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Harmonization of standards from multiple sources
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Building software systems to support EHR development