AHS 340 Final Exam 2023
Avedis Donabedian defined health care quality as having which of the following
components?
The ethical principles that govern the conduct of affairs in general and the health care
enterprise in particular.
During the early 1980's, the Hospital Corporation of American (HCA) created the
most commonly used quality improvement framework in the healthcare industry;
it is called the:
FOCUS-PDCA Model
Flowcharting is a quality improvement technique used for:
Process mapping
Statistical Process Control Focuses on controlling
Variation
The Baldrige Award features nine criteria arranged in a structure-process-
outcome framework. Which of the following is NOT a structural aspect of quality
in the Baldrige Award criteria?
Followership
The "failure to provide a service whose benefit is greater than its risk" is the
definition of which of the following terms?
Underuse
Which aspect of quality does CQI focus upon to improve quality?
Process
PDCA stands for Plan-Do-Check-Approve
False
Six Sigma employs a structured process called DMAIC.
True
Data mining uses what is commonly referred to as "big data".
True
By definition, which of the following is true about Electronic Medical Records
(EMR)?
Considered a legal record
Concerns about health information systems in general and EHRs in particular
include which of the following?
All of these are correct
The purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act include
all of the following except:
Providing health care coverage to more people
Advances in health care technology are having a significant impact not only on
how healthcare organizations do business, but also on their internal need for
storing information
True
Interoperability refers to the concept of being able to exchange data among
providers of health care.
True
Avedis Donabedian defined health care quality as having which of the following
components?
The ethical principles that govern the conduct of affairs in general and the health care
enterprise in particular.
During the early 1980's, the Hospital Corporation of American (HCA) created the
most commonly used quality improvement framework in the healthcare industry;
it is called the:
FOCUS-PDCA Model
Flowcharting is a quality improvement technique used for:
Process mapping
Statistical Process Control Focuses on controlling
Variation
The Baldrige Award features nine criteria arranged in a structure-process-
outcome framework. Which of the following is NOT a structural aspect of quality
in the Baldrige Award criteria?
Followership
The "failure to provide a service whose benefit is greater than its risk" is the
definition of which of the following terms?
Underuse
Which aspect of quality does CQI focus upon to improve quality?
Process
PDCA stands for Plan-Do-Check-Approve
False
Six Sigma employs a structured process called DMAIC.
True
Data mining uses what is commonly referred to as "big data".
True
By definition, which of the following is true about Electronic Medical Records
(EMR)?
Considered a legal record
Concerns about health information systems in general and EHRs in particular
include which of the following?
All of these are correct
The purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act include
all of the following except:
Providing health care coverage to more people
Advances in health care technology are having a significant impact not only on
how healthcare organizations do business, but also on their internal need for
storing information
True
Interoperability refers to the concept of being able to exchange data among
providers of health care.
True
