MHA 705 LATEST 2026 MAIN EXAMINATION SET
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Traumatic injury - ✔✔A wound or injury included in a trauma registry
✔✔Unified medical language system (UMLS) - ✔✔A common data modeling notation
used in conjunction with object-oriented database design
✔✔Vital statistics - ✔✔Data related to births, deaths, marriages, and fetal deaths
✔✔What is the difference between a primary data source and a secondary data
source? - ✔✔
✔✔What it's he difference between patient-identifiable data and aggregate data? - ✔✔
✔✔Why are secondary data sources developed? - ✔✔
✔✔What are the differences between internal users and external users of secondary
data sources? - ✔✔
✔✔How do HIM departments use facility-specific indexes? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the purpose of the master population/ patient index? What types of
information does it include? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the purpose of disease and operation indexes? What types of information
do they include? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the purpose of the physician index? What types of information does it
include? - ✔✔
✔✔What is a registry? What is the purpose of a registry? - ✔✔
✔✔How is cases definition different from case finding? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the difference between a facility-based registry and a population-based
registry? - ✔✔
✔✔What information is included in the Medicare provider analysis and review file? - ✔✔
✔✔What limitations are encountered when using MEDPAR data in research? - ✔✔
,✔✔Why was the National Practitioner Data Bank developed? What law requires its
use? Why was the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank developed? What law
requires its use? - ✔✔
✔✔What types of information must be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank
and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank? Do the two data banks overlap
in any way? - ✔✔
✔✔How do healthcare organizations use the National Practitioner Data Bank? Who
may use the HIPDB? - ✔✔
✔✔How can the Health information manager contribute to public health databases? -
✔✔
✔✔Which of the five national health care survey databases use data from health
records? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the clinical trial? Why are clinical trials databases developed? Which law
mandated development of a national clinical trials database? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the source of data for healthcare Cost and Utilization Project? - ✔✔
✔✔Why is UMLS of interest to HIM professionals? - ✔✔
✔✔Why have health information exchange efforts been developed? - ✔✔
✔✔What type of data is included in HIEs? - ✔✔
✔✔What factors must be considered when determining the quality of data? - ✔✔
✔✔Which errors in registries and other secondary databases can cause serious
problems? - ✔✔
✔✔What methods and systems can be used to ensure the quality of secondary
healthcare data? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the difference between security and confidentiality? - ✔✔
✔✔What methods might be used to control access to a health information system? -
✔✔
✔✔What types of data should be encrypted? - ✔✔
, ✔✔What methods can be used to ensure data confidentiality? - ✔✔
✔✔What trends are evident in the collection of secondary data? - ✔✔
✔✔Which types of registries and secondary data sources would be covered by HIPAA
privacy and security regulations? - ✔✔
✔✔How are patients notified that data about them may be included in registries and
databases and released to outside entities? - ✔✔
✔✔What is deidentification, and what are two ways under HIPAA that deidentification
may be accomplished? - ✔✔
✔✔Acute care - ✔✔Medical care of a limited duration that is provided in an inpatient
hospital setting to diagnose and/or treat an injury or a short-term illness
✔✔Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) - ✔✔Under Medicare, an outpatient surgical
facility that has its own national identifier; is a separate entity with respect to its
licensure, accreditation, governance, professional supervision, administrative functions,
clinical services, record keeping, and financial and accounting systems; has as its sole
purpose the provision of services in connection with surgical procedures that do not
require inpatient hospitalization; and meets the conditions and requirements set forth in
the Medicare Conditions of Participation
✔✔Average daily census - ✔✔The mean number of hospital inpatients present in the
hospital each day for a given period of time
✔✔Average length of stay (ALOS) - ✔✔The mean length of stay for hospital inpatients
discharged during a given period of time
✔✔Bar chart - ✔✔A graphic technique used to display frequency distributions of
nominal or ordinal data that fall into categories
✔✔Bed count - ✔✔The number of inpatient beds set up and staffed for use on a given
day
✔✔Bed count day - ✔✔A unit of measure that denotes the presence of one inpatient
bed (either occupied or vacant) set up and staffed for use in one 24-hour period
✔✔Bed turnover rate - ✔✔The average number of times a bed changes occupants
during a given period of time
✔✔Bo plot - ✔✔
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Traumatic injury - ✔✔A wound or injury included in a trauma registry
✔✔Unified medical language system (UMLS) - ✔✔A common data modeling notation
used in conjunction with object-oriented database design
✔✔Vital statistics - ✔✔Data related to births, deaths, marriages, and fetal deaths
✔✔What is the difference between a primary data source and a secondary data
source? - ✔✔
✔✔What it's he difference between patient-identifiable data and aggregate data? - ✔✔
✔✔Why are secondary data sources developed? - ✔✔
✔✔What are the differences between internal users and external users of secondary
data sources? - ✔✔
✔✔How do HIM departments use facility-specific indexes? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the purpose of the master population/ patient index? What types of
information does it include? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the purpose of disease and operation indexes? What types of information
do they include? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the purpose of the physician index? What types of information does it
include? - ✔✔
✔✔What is a registry? What is the purpose of a registry? - ✔✔
✔✔How is cases definition different from case finding? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the difference between a facility-based registry and a population-based
registry? - ✔✔
✔✔What information is included in the Medicare provider analysis and review file? - ✔✔
✔✔What limitations are encountered when using MEDPAR data in research? - ✔✔
,✔✔Why was the National Practitioner Data Bank developed? What law requires its
use? Why was the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank developed? What law
requires its use? - ✔✔
✔✔What types of information must be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank
and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank? Do the two data banks overlap
in any way? - ✔✔
✔✔How do healthcare organizations use the National Practitioner Data Bank? Who
may use the HIPDB? - ✔✔
✔✔How can the Health information manager contribute to public health databases? -
✔✔
✔✔Which of the five national health care survey databases use data from health
records? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the clinical trial? Why are clinical trials databases developed? Which law
mandated development of a national clinical trials database? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the source of data for healthcare Cost and Utilization Project? - ✔✔
✔✔Why is UMLS of interest to HIM professionals? - ✔✔
✔✔Why have health information exchange efforts been developed? - ✔✔
✔✔What type of data is included in HIEs? - ✔✔
✔✔What factors must be considered when determining the quality of data? - ✔✔
✔✔Which errors in registries and other secondary databases can cause serious
problems? - ✔✔
✔✔What methods and systems can be used to ensure the quality of secondary
healthcare data? - ✔✔
✔✔What is the difference between security and confidentiality? - ✔✔
✔✔What methods might be used to control access to a health information system? -
✔✔
✔✔What types of data should be encrypted? - ✔✔
, ✔✔What methods can be used to ensure data confidentiality? - ✔✔
✔✔What trends are evident in the collection of secondary data? - ✔✔
✔✔Which types of registries and secondary data sources would be covered by HIPAA
privacy and security regulations? - ✔✔
✔✔How are patients notified that data about them may be included in registries and
databases and released to outside entities? - ✔✔
✔✔What is deidentification, and what are two ways under HIPAA that deidentification
may be accomplished? - ✔✔
✔✔Acute care - ✔✔Medical care of a limited duration that is provided in an inpatient
hospital setting to diagnose and/or treat an injury or a short-term illness
✔✔Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) - ✔✔Under Medicare, an outpatient surgical
facility that has its own national identifier; is a separate entity with respect to its
licensure, accreditation, governance, professional supervision, administrative functions,
clinical services, record keeping, and financial and accounting systems; has as its sole
purpose the provision of services in connection with surgical procedures that do not
require inpatient hospitalization; and meets the conditions and requirements set forth in
the Medicare Conditions of Participation
✔✔Average daily census - ✔✔The mean number of hospital inpatients present in the
hospital each day for a given period of time
✔✔Average length of stay (ALOS) - ✔✔The mean length of stay for hospital inpatients
discharged during a given period of time
✔✔Bar chart - ✔✔A graphic technique used to display frequency distributions of
nominal or ordinal data that fall into categories
✔✔Bed count - ✔✔The number of inpatient beds set up and staffed for use on a given
day
✔✔Bed count day - ✔✔A unit of measure that denotes the presence of one inpatient
bed (either occupied or vacant) set up and staffed for use in one 24-hour period
✔✔Bed turnover rate - ✔✔The average number of times a bed changes occupants
during a given period of time
✔✔Bo plot - ✔✔
