MHA 705 LATEST 2026 CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Deidentification - ✔✔The process in which users of secondary data will need to
remove identifying data so that data can be used without violating the patient's privacy
✔✔Demographic information - ✔✔Information used to identify an individual, such as
name, address, gender, age, and other information linked to a specific person
✔✔Disease index - ✔✔A list of diseases and conditions of patients sequenced
according to the code numbers of the classification system in use
✔✔Disease registry - ✔✔A centralized collection of data used to improve the quality of
care and measure the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery
✔✔Edit - ✔✔A condition that must be satisfied before a computer system can accept
data
✔✔Encryption - ✔✔The process of transforming text into an unintelligible string of
characters that can be transmitted via communications media with a high degree of
security and then decrypted when it reaches a secure destination
✔✔Facility based registry - ✔✔A registry that includes only cases from a particular type
of healthcare facility, such as a hospital or clinic
✔✔Food and drug administration (FDA) - ✔✔The federal agency responsible for
controlling the sale and use of pharmaceuticals, biological products, medical devices,
food, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation, including the licensing of medications
for human use
✔✔Health services research - ✔✔Research conducted on the subject of healthcare
delivery that examines organizational structures and systems as well as the
effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services
✔✔Healthcare cost and utilization project (HCUP) - ✔✔A group of healthcare databases
and related software tools developed through collaboration by the federal government,
state governments, and industry to create a national information resource for patient-
level healthcare data
✔✔Healthcare integrity and protection data bank (HIPDB) - ✔✔A national database that
collects information on cases of healthcare fraud and abuse
✔✔Histocompatibility - ✔✔The immunologic similarity between an organ donor and a
transplant recipient
,✔✔Incidence - ✔✔The number or rate of new cases of a specific disease
✔✔Index - ✔✔An organized (usually alphabetical) list of specific data that serves to
guide, indicate, or otherwise facilitate reference to the data
✔✔Injury severity score (ISS) - ✔✔An overall severity measurement maintained in the
trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury scores for the three most
severe injuries of each patient
✔✔Interpreter reliability - ✔✔Not in glossary
✔✔Master population/ patient index (MPI) - ✔✔A list or database created and
maintained by a healthcare facility to record the name and identification number of
every patient who has ever been admitted or treated in the facility
✔✔Medical literature, analysis, and retrieval system online (MEDLINE) - ✔✔A
computerized, online database in the bibliographic Medical Literature Analysis and
Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine
✔✔Medicare provider analysis and review (MEDPAR) - ✔✔A database containing
information submitted by fiscal intermediaries that is used by the Office of the Inspector
General to identify suspicious billing and charge practices
✔✔National center for health statistics (NCHS) - ✔✔The federal agency responsible for
collecting and disseminating information on health services utilization and the health
status of the population in the United States
✔✔National health care survey - ✔✔A national public health survey that contains data
abstracted manually from a sample of acute care hospitals and discharged inpatient
records, or obtained from state or other discharge databases
✔✔National practitioner data bank (NPDB) - ✔✔A data bank established by the federal
government through the 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act that contains
information on professional review actions taken against physicians and other licensed
healthcare practitioners, which healthcare organizations are required to check as part of
the credentialing process
✔✔National vaccine advisory committee (NVAC) - ✔✔A national advisory group that
supports the director of the National Vaccine Program
✔✔Operation index - ✔✔A list of the operations and surgical procedures performed in a
healthcare facility that is sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification
system in use
, ✔✔Patient- identifiable data - ✔✔Data in the health record that relates to a particular
patient identified by name
✔✔Physician index - ✔✔A list of patients and their physicians that is usually arranged
according to the physician code numbers assigned by the healthcare facility
✔✔Population-based registry - ✔✔A type of registry that includes information from more
than one facility in a specific geopolitical area, such as a state or region
✔✔Primary data source - ✔✔A record developed by healthcare professionals in the
process of providing patient care
✔✔Protocol - ✔✔In healthcare, a detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition
based on investigative studies; in medical research, a rule or procedure to be followed
in a clinical trial; in a computer network, a protocol used to address and ensure delivery
of data
✔✔Public health - ✔✔An area of healthcare that deals with the health of populations in
geopolitical areas, such as states and counties
✔✔Registry - ✔✔A collection of a limited set of information about a patient, often
disease specific
✔✔Secondary data source - ✔✔Data derived from the primary patient record, such as
an index or a database
✔✔Staging system - ✔✔A method used in cancer registers to identify specific and
separate different stages or aspects of the disease
✔✔Transparency - ✔✔Refers to the degree to which patients included in secondary
data sets are aware of their inclusion
✔✔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? - ✔✔
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Deidentification - ✔✔The process in which users of secondary data will need to
remove identifying data so that data can be used without violating the patient's privacy
✔✔Demographic information - ✔✔Information used to identify an individual, such as
name, address, gender, age, and other information linked to a specific person
✔✔Disease index - ✔✔A list of diseases and conditions of patients sequenced
according to the code numbers of the classification system in use
✔✔Disease registry - ✔✔A centralized collection of data used to improve the quality of
care and measure the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery
✔✔Edit - ✔✔A condition that must be satisfied before a computer system can accept
data
✔✔Encryption - ✔✔The process of transforming text into an unintelligible string of
characters that can be transmitted via communications media with a high degree of
security and then decrypted when it reaches a secure destination
✔✔Facility based registry - ✔✔A registry that includes only cases from a particular type
of healthcare facility, such as a hospital or clinic
✔✔Food and drug administration (FDA) - ✔✔The federal agency responsible for
controlling the sale and use of pharmaceuticals, biological products, medical devices,
food, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation, including the licensing of medications
for human use
✔✔Health services research - ✔✔Research conducted on the subject of healthcare
delivery that examines organizational structures and systems as well as the
effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services
✔✔Healthcare cost and utilization project (HCUP) - ✔✔A group of healthcare databases
and related software tools developed through collaboration by the federal government,
state governments, and industry to create a national information resource for patient-
level healthcare data
✔✔Healthcare integrity and protection data bank (HIPDB) - ✔✔A national database that
collects information on cases of healthcare fraud and abuse
✔✔Histocompatibility - ✔✔The immunologic similarity between an organ donor and a
transplant recipient
,✔✔Incidence - ✔✔The number or rate of new cases of a specific disease
✔✔Index - ✔✔An organized (usually alphabetical) list of specific data that serves to
guide, indicate, or otherwise facilitate reference to the data
✔✔Injury severity score (ISS) - ✔✔An overall severity measurement maintained in the
trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury scores for the three most
severe injuries of each patient
✔✔Interpreter reliability - ✔✔Not in glossary
✔✔Master population/ patient index (MPI) - ✔✔A list or database created and
maintained by a healthcare facility to record the name and identification number of
every patient who has ever been admitted or treated in the facility
✔✔Medical literature, analysis, and retrieval system online (MEDLINE) - ✔✔A
computerized, online database in the bibliographic Medical Literature Analysis and
Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine
✔✔Medicare provider analysis and review (MEDPAR) - ✔✔A database containing
information submitted by fiscal intermediaries that is used by the Office of the Inspector
General to identify suspicious billing and charge practices
✔✔National center for health statistics (NCHS) - ✔✔The federal agency responsible for
collecting and disseminating information on health services utilization and the health
status of the population in the United States
✔✔National health care survey - ✔✔A national public health survey that contains data
abstracted manually from a sample of acute care hospitals and discharged inpatient
records, or obtained from state or other discharge databases
✔✔National practitioner data bank (NPDB) - ✔✔A data bank established by the federal
government through the 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act that contains
information on professional review actions taken against physicians and other licensed
healthcare practitioners, which healthcare organizations are required to check as part of
the credentialing process
✔✔National vaccine advisory committee (NVAC) - ✔✔A national advisory group that
supports the director of the National Vaccine Program
✔✔Operation index - ✔✔A list of the operations and surgical procedures performed in a
healthcare facility that is sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification
system in use
, ✔✔Patient- identifiable data - ✔✔Data in the health record that relates to a particular
patient identified by name
✔✔Physician index - ✔✔A list of patients and their physicians that is usually arranged
according to the physician code numbers assigned by the healthcare facility
✔✔Population-based registry - ✔✔A type of registry that includes information from more
than one facility in a specific geopolitical area, such as a state or region
✔✔Primary data source - ✔✔A record developed by healthcare professionals in the
process of providing patient care
✔✔Protocol - ✔✔In healthcare, a detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition
based on investigative studies; in medical research, a rule or procedure to be followed
in a clinical trial; in a computer network, a protocol used to address and ensure delivery
of data
✔✔Public health - ✔✔An area of healthcare that deals with the health of populations in
geopolitical areas, such as states and counties
✔✔Registry - ✔✔A collection of a limited set of information about a patient, often
disease specific
✔✔Secondary data source - ✔✔Data derived from the primary patient record, such as
an index or a database
✔✔Staging system - ✔✔A method used in cancer registers to identify specific and
separate different stages or aspects of the disease
✔✔Transparency - ✔✔Refers to the degree to which patients included in secondary
data sets are aware of their inclusion
✔✔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? - ✔✔
