CERTIFIED SPECIALIST BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2025/2026
Define HIPAA - ANS-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; organizations
that are a CE and, now, directly to business associates as well
-privacy rule
-accountability rule
Define HITECH - ANS-Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Act
-both CE and individuals
-business associate contractors
Breach notification requirements: Accounting of PHI disclosures; allows for sanctions for
non-compliance including fines of up to 1.75M and 10 years imprisonment
Identify fundamental purpose of engaging in analytics - ANS-understand what is
happening and finding a path forward
recognize the basic business functions of finance, marketing and operations - ANS--
operations is the function that meets the demand for a service or product by
marketplace entities
-finance ensures monetary resources are in place to conduct operations
-marketing provides the market interface function that is focused on understanding what
the marketplace overtly seeks, specifically needs, anticipating shifts and ensuring a
strong marketplace presence
recognize the dimensions of changes in the work and relationships of players in the
business of providing healthcare services - ANS--role of nurses: integrated role within
team-based model of care; focus on standardization and improving outcomes
-role of case managers: minimizing 30-day re-admissions
, -quality and performance improvement: work will be performed in direct collaboration
with clinicians, clinical informaticists, decision support professionals and patient access
team members
-operational management decision: increased focus on procurement sourcing and
management of suppliers and supply lines rather than on managing inventory and
processing orders
-decision support becomes a BI/Analytics function
-Internal Financial and Payer Experts
-Providers, Suppliers and Payers
recognize the steps involved in a stakeholder analysis process - ANS-1. identifying
stakeholders
2. analyzing stakeholders' profiles
3. analyzing stakeholder relationships
4. analyzing stakeholder participation
recognize the three general ways to assess productivity - ANS--partial productivity:
measures efficiency of one particular characteristic; measures output against a specific
input, e.g., services rendered/employee
-multifactor productivity: ratio of output to a group of inputs, such as labor and materials
-total: broadest measure, includes all inputs
-revenues, profits/all inputs
define the term business intelligence - ANS-set of methodologies, processes,
architectures and technologies that encompass the three types of analytics. Broad
category of applications and technologies for gathering and analyzing data,
transforming it into accurate, current and relevant actionable information and deploying
it to users to be available for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better
business decisions
identify the three types of analytics - ANS-descriptive, predictive and prescriptive
identify areas that may provide significant opportunities for improved organizational
performance if analytics are applied - ANS--data rich
-information intensive
-asset intensive
-labor intensive
-dependent on speed and timing
-dependent on consistency and control
-dependent on distributed decision making
-cross-functional and cross-business in scope
-low average success rate
three decision making viewpoints - ANS-hindsight, insight, foresight
EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2025/2026
Define HIPAA - ANS-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; organizations
that are a CE and, now, directly to business associates as well
-privacy rule
-accountability rule
Define HITECH - ANS-Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Act
-both CE and individuals
-business associate contractors
Breach notification requirements: Accounting of PHI disclosures; allows for sanctions for
non-compliance including fines of up to 1.75M and 10 years imprisonment
Identify fundamental purpose of engaging in analytics - ANS-understand what is
happening and finding a path forward
recognize the basic business functions of finance, marketing and operations - ANS--
operations is the function that meets the demand for a service or product by
marketplace entities
-finance ensures monetary resources are in place to conduct operations
-marketing provides the market interface function that is focused on understanding what
the marketplace overtly seeks, specifically needs, anticipating shifts and ensuring a
strong marketplace presence
recognize the dimensions of changes in the work and relationships of players in the
business of providing healthcare services - ANS--role of nurses: integrated role within
team-based model of care; focus on standardization and improving outcomes
-role of case managers: minimizing 30-day re-admissions
, -quality and performance improvement: work will be performed in direct collaboration
with clinicians, clinical informaticists, decision support professionals and patient access
team members
-operational management decision: increased focus on procurement sourcing and
management of suppliers and supply lines rather than on managing inventory and
processing orders
-decision support becomes a BI/Analytics function
-Internal Financial and Payer Experts
-Providers, Suppliers and Payers
recognize the steps involved in a stakeholder analysis process - ANS-1. identifying
stakeholders
2. analyzing stakeholders' profiles
3. analyzing stakeholder relationships
4. analyzing stakeholder participation
recognize the three general ways to assess productivity - ANS--partial productivity:
measures efficiency of one particular characteristic; measures output against a specific
input, e.g., services rendered/employee
-multifactor productivity: ratio of output to a group of inputs, such as labor and materials
-total: broadest measure, includes all inputs
-revenues, profits/all inputs
define the term business intelligence - ANS-set of methodologies, processes,
architectures and technologies that encompass the three types of analytics. Broad
category of applications and technologies for gathering and analyzing data,
transforming it into accurate, current and relevant actionable information and deploying
it to users to be available for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better
business decisions
identify the three types of analytics - ANS-descriptive, predictive and prescriptive
identify areas that may provide significant opportunities for improved organizational
performance if analytics are applied - ANS--data rich
-information intensive
-asset intensive
-labor intensive
-dependent on speed and timing
-dependent on consistency and control
-dependent on distributed decision making
-cross-functional and cross-business in scope
-low average success rate
three decision making viewpoints - ANS-hindsight, insight, foresight
