Which process initiates the organizations efforts to accurately and uniquely identify the patient?
a. Patient Registration
b. Abstracting
c. Coding
d. Scanning - Answers a. Patient Registration
To be successful, any IS technology initiative must align with:
a. Health Information Management individual strategies
b. The organization's strategic plan
c. IS department individual strategies
d. Same hardware and software already used in the facility - Answers b. The organization's strategic plan
Which of the following has had the greatest impact in generating interest in the EHR?
a. Patient safety concerns
b. HIPAA
c. Internet use
d. Wireless technology - Answers a. Patient safety concerns
You are working in the credentialing office at the hospital and need to check to see if a physician
applying for medical staff privileges has had privileges denied at any other facility. You would check the:
a. National Practitioner Data Bank
b. UMLS
c. Volunteer Mutual Association
d. MEDPAR file - Answers a. National Practitioner Data Bank
Which of the following is an external user of secondary data?
a. Medical staff
b. Hospital administrator
c. Director of the Clinical Laboratory
, d. Public Health Department - Answers d. Public Health Department
Which of the following procedures is eliminated from the chart review process as a result of EHR
implementation?
a. Pulling records from the file room
b. Obtaining a signed authorization
c. Ensuring proper identification
d. Instructing reviewers on how to navigate the health record - Answers a. Pulling records from the file
room
In order for information technology to be fully embraced and supported by healthcare organizations, the
most critical result that is must produce is:
a. cost savings
b. improved quality of care
c. better information flow
d. space savings - Answers b. improved quality of care
The _____________ is the subset of all patient-specific data created or accumulated by a healthcare
provider that may be released to third parties in response to legally permissible requests
a. legal health record
b. problem list
c. MPI
d. electronic health record - Answers a. legal health record
Bar coding technology is an example of:
a. automatic recognition technology
b. voice recognition
c. artificial intelligence
d. vector graphic data - Answers a. automatic recognition technology
A laboratory information system (LIS) and a radiology information system (RIS) are both considered:
a. Clinical/Ancillary Application