Registered Health Information
Administrator (RHIA) Exam-Graded A
Real-time analytics - ANS-The HIM manager tasked the coding manager to
development of a dashboard that shows the discharges pending final billing so that she
can plan for staffing. Because this data changes throughout the day, what analysis
technique is needed?
Spoliation - ANS-A hospital employee destroyed a health record so that its contents -
which would be damaging to the employee - could not be used at trial. In legal terms,,
the employee's action constitutes:
The template was defined. - ANS-The following descriptors about the data element
DISCHARGE_DATE are included in a data dictionary: definition: date patient was
discharged from the hospital; data type: date; field length: 15; required field: yes; default
value: none; template: none. For this data element, data integrity would be better
assured if:
That the Joint Commission will find that history and physicals are not being uploaded to
the EHR system within the required 24-hour time frame. - ANS-The HIM director at
Community Hospital has noticed that history and physicals and operative reports are not
being transcribed and returned by the transcription service within the negotiated
timeframes. What should be her primary concern related to this issue?
Correlation - ANS-Which statistics should a health data analyst recommend to a
manager who would like to measure the relationship between length of stay and time to
code a health record?
Determining if the documentation includes all requirements set by CMS, the state and
accrediting bodies. - ANS-Danny, an HIM analyst for Memorial Hospital, is conducting a
qualitative analysis of a discharged patient's chart. His goal in this process is:
Minimum data set to plan her care. - ANS-Gladys was admitted to Sunshine Nursing
Facility for rehabilitation following her hip fracture. Upon admission, the nursing staff
assessed Gladys in multiple areas, some of which are cognitive loss, mood, vision
function, pain, and the medications she is taking. This information will be recorded in
her health record for the:
Secondary Data. (The data was used for a purpose that was not the primary reason for
collection.) - ANS-In order to set the budget for next year, the hospital administrator
tased a business analyst with determining the average charges and average length of
, stay for Medicaid patients. The business analyst uses hospital claims data for this
analysis and provides the results to the administrator. What type of data are the claims
data in this case?
By helping to remind providers to complete documentation requirements and sign
orders, which is easier to do while the patient is still at the facility. - ANS-At Memorial
Hospital, HIM professionals are located in the nursing stations, where they are
responsible for all aspects of health record processing. While the patient is in the facility,
the HIM professional does a daily concurrent review of the record. How does this assist
the organization?
Determine whether a patient has been seen in the facility before. - ANS-Hospitals often
use master patient indexes (MPIs) to do what?
To identify deficiencies in the chart early so they can be corrected. - ANS-Lisa, an HIM
analyst for Healthwise Hospital, is conducting a quantitative analysis of a discharged
patient's chart. Her goal in this process is:
Degaussing (Demagnetizing) - ANS-What is the appropriate method for destroying
electronic data?
Burning, Shredding, Pulverizing. - ANS-What is the appropriate method for destroying
paper-based data?
Overlap - ANS-John Smith, who was treated as a patient at a multihospital system, has
three health record numbers. The term used to describe multiple health record numbers
is:
Executive information system dashboard - ANS-What type of report would give
administrators structured information in a variety of graphs to better plan facility
operations?
A. Documenting additions or deletions in a patient's record. - ANS-Which of the
following would not be appropriate duty of an HIM professional?
A. Documenting additions or deletions in a patient's record.
B. Monitoring documentation guidelines as set forth in legislation or regulatory
standards.
C. Training care providers in documentation techniques.
D. Auditing patient records to determine the quality of the documentation.
Financial Data - ANS-The insured party's member identification number is an example
of which type of data?
Administrator (RHIA) Exam-Graded A
Real-time analytics - ANS-The HIM manager tasked the coding manager to
development of a dashboard that shows the discharges pending final billing so that she
can plan for staffing. Because this data changes throughout the day, what analysis
technique is needed?
Spoliation - ANS-A hospital employee destroyed a health record so that its contents -
which would be damaging to the employee - could not be used at trial. In legal terms,,
the employee's action constitutes:
The template was defined. - ANS-The following descriptors about the data element
DISCHARGE_DATE are included in a data dictionary: definition: date patient was
discharged from the hospital; data type: date; field length: 15; required field: yes; default
value: none; template: none. For this data element, data integrity would be better
assured if:
That the Joint Commission will find that history and physicals are not being uploaded to
the EHR system within the required 24-hour time frame. - ANS-The HIM director at
Community Hospital has noticed that history and physicals and operative reports are not
being transcribed and returned by the transcription service within the negotiated
timeframes. What should be her primary concern related to this issue?
Correlation - ANS-Which statistics should a health data analyst recommend to a
manager who would like to measure the relationship between length of stay and time to
code a health record?
Determining if the documentation includes all requirements set by CMS, the state and
accrediting bodies. - ANS-Danny, an HIM analyst for Memorial Hospital, is conducting a
qualitative analysis of a discharged patient's chart. His goal in this process is:
Minimum data set to plan her care. - ANS-Gladys was admitted to Sunshine Nursing
Facility for rehabilitation following her hip fracture. Upon admission, the nursing staff
assessed Gladys in multiple areas, some of which are cognitive loss, mood, vision
function, pain, and the medications she is taking. This information will be recorded in
her health record for the:
Secondary Data. (The data was used for a purpose that was not the primary reason for
collection.) - ANS-In order to set the budget for next year, the hospital administrator
tased a business analyst with determining the average charges and average length of
, stay for Medicaid patients. The business analyst uses hospital claims data for this
analysis and provides the results to the administrator. What type of data are the claims
data in this case?
By helping to remind providers to complete documentation requirements and sign
orders, which is easier to do while the patient is still at the facility. - ANS-At Memorial
Hospital, HIM professionals are located in the nursing stations, where they are
responsible for all aspects of health record processing. While the patient is in the facility,
the HIM professional does a daily concurrent review of the record. How does this assist
the organization?
Determine whether a patient has been seen in the facility before. - ANS-Hospitals often
use master patient indexes (MPIs) to do what?
To identify deficiencies in the chart early so they can be corrected. - ANS-Lisa, an HIM
analyst for Healthwise Hospital, is conducting a quantitative analysis of a discharged
patient's chart. Her goal in this process is:
Degaussing (Demagnetizing) - ANS-What is the appropriate method for destroying
electronic data?
Burning, Shredding, Pulverizing. - ANS-What is the appropriate method for destroying
paper-based data?
Overlap - ANS-John Smith, who was treated as a patient at a multihospital system, has
three health record numbers. The term used to describe multiple health record numbers
is:
Executive information system dashboard - ANS-What type of report would give
administrators structured information in a variety of graphs to better plan facility
operations?
A. Documenting additions or deletions in a patient's record. - ANS-Which of the
following would not be appropriate duty of an HIM professional?
A. Documenting additions or deletions in a patient's record.
B. Monitoring documentation guidelines as set forth in legislation or regulatory
standards.
C. Training care providers in documentation techniques.
D. Auditing patient records to determine the quality of the documentation.
Financial Data - ANS-The insured party's member identification number is an example
of which type of data?
