US HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS PRACTICE
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL
CORRECT
The major health care advances of the second half of the 1900s were in the area of -
Answer-vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control infectious diseases,
tranquilizers, and the birth control pill
The most significant social legislation passed by any congress in the history of the
united states was the - Answer-social security act of 1935
As early as the 1800s, some americans carried "health insurance" through employers,
fraternal orders, guilds, trade unions, or commercial insurance companies. however,
unlike the health insurance of today, these insurance policies only provided for -
Answer-fixed payments to compensate for lost wages due to injury, sickness, or
disability
The primary purpose of medicare as enacted in 1965 was to - Answer-
This essential element for successful health information systems implementation
involves describing and defining the way in which work is carried out - Answer-policies
and procedures
Which of the following is not a benefit of implementing hit - Answer-reduce revenue for
providers
The central provision of the hitech act of 2009 was - Answer-$20.8 billion allocation
through the medicare and medicaid programs to incentivize physicians and health care
organizations to adopt electronic health records
The monolithic model of health information exchange architecture is best described as a
model in which - Answer-all participating institutions periodically send copies of clinical
data to one central repository where all data reside together in one format
This essential element for successful health information systems implementation
involves a relational database, a computer network, and computer workstations -
Answer-technology
, The federated model of health information exchange architecture is best described as a
model in which - Answer-data resides only within each institution's system and the
health information exchange data base houses only a master patient index with unique
patient identifiers
A historical barrier to broad implementation of hit is the chasm between those who bear
the costs of technology and those who receive its benefits - Answer-true
to keep track of the many coding standards and the terms within, the national library of
medicine built and maintains the _____ which houses a variety of tools for mapping
between over 200 terminology standards - Answer-unified medical language systems
(umls)
this stage of meaningful use criteria includes objectives for advanced clinical processes
- Answer-stage 2
three organization elements essential for successful health information systems
implementation are - Answer-technology, policies and procedures, and culture
in health care, which of the following terms refers to a system that includes
aggregations that produce the same goods or services - Answer-horizontally integrated
through discharge planning, hospitals help assure that safe and appropriate post-
hospital accommodations are arranged for each patient. medicare patients may appeal
what they believe to be a premature or inappropriate discharge by petitioning which of
the following organizations - Answer-quality improvement organization (qio)
in the past, patient behaviors were formed from the authoritarian positions of better-
educated providers who expected patients to be compliant and grateful. Today,
healthcare providers and consumers - Answer-increasingly engage in "share decision-
making"
the aca will provide new access to health care for millions of americans. however,
health services researchers caution about overstating the link between insurance and
health. the basis for their caution is - Answer-improvements in population health will
require merging public health concepts into personal medical care approaches
problems of the healthcare delivery system are historically rooted in balancing cost,
quality, and access. These problems generated competition between the government
and private sectors in the 1990s, best characterized by which of the following - Answer-
market-oriented changes, competition, and privately organized managed care programs
the us health care system is a 3 trillion dollar industry, which makes up __% of the
country's gdp - Answer-
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL
CORRECT
The major health care advances of the second half of the 1900s were in the area of -
Answer-vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control infectious diseases,
tranquilizers, and the birth control pill
The most significant social legislation passed by any congress in the history of the
united states was the - Answer-social security act of 1935
As early as the 1800s, some americans carried "health insurance" through employers,
fraternal orders, guilds, trade unions, or commercial insurance companies. however,
unlike the health insurance of today, these insurance policies only provided for -
Answer-fixed payments to compensate for lost wages due to injury, sickness, or
disability
The primary purpose of medicare as enacted in 1965 was to - Answer-
This essential element for successful health information systems implementation
involves describing and defining the way in which work is carried out - Answer-policies
and procedures
Which of the following is not a benefit of implementing hit - Answer-reduce revenue for
providers
The central provision of the hitech act of 2009 was - Answer-$20.8 billion allocation
through the medicare and medicaid programs to incentivize physicians and health care
organizations to adopt electronic health records
The monolithic model of health information exchange architecture is best described as a
model in which - Answer-all participating institutions periodically send copies of clinical
data to one central repository where all data reside together in one format
This essential element for successful health information systems implementation
involves a relational database, a computer network, and computer workstations -
Answer-technology
, The federated model of health information exchange architecture is best described as a
model in which - Answer-data resides only within each institution's system and the
health information exchange data base houses only a master patient index with unique
patient identifiers
A historical barrier to broad implementation of hit is the chasm between those who bear
the costs of technology and those who receive its benefits - Answer-true
to keep track of the many coding standards and the terms within, the national library of
medicine built and maintains the _____ which houses a variety of tools for mapping
between over 200 terminology standards - Answer-unified medical language systems
(umls)
this stage of meaningful use criteria includes objectives for advanced clinical processes
- Answer-stage 2
three organization elements essential for successful health information systems
implementation are - Answer-technology, policies and procedures, and culture
in health care, which of the following terms refers to a system that includes
aggregations that produce the same goods or services - Answer-horizontally integrated
through discharge planning, hospitals help assure that safe and appropriate post-
hospital accommodations are arranged for each patient. medicare patients may appeal
what they believe to be a premature or inappropriate discharge by petitioning which of
the following organizations - Answer-quality improvement organization (qio)
in the past, patient behaviors were formed from the authoritarian positions of better-
educated providers who expected patients to be compliant and grateful. Today,
healthcare providers and consumers - Answer-increasingly engage in "share decision-
making"
the aca will provide new access to health care for millions of americans. however,
health services researchers caution about overstating the link between insurance and
health. the basis for their caution is - Answer-improvements in population health will
require merging public health concepts into personal medical care approaches
problems of the healthcare delivery system are historically rooted in balancing cost,
quality, and access. These problems generated competition between the government
and private sectors in the 1990s, best characterized by which of the following - Answer-
market-oriented changes, competition, and privately organized managed care programs
the us health care system is a 3 trillion dollar industry, which makes up __% of the
country's gdp - Answer-
