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In order to ensure a successful implementation of electronic health records, the
organization must identify and define strategic roles. These planning roles may be
defined in three categories:leadership, internal stakeholders, and external stakeholders.
The governing body (board) is an example of which of the following? - answers
Leadership only
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the optimal relationship
between strategic planning and strategic IM planning in a healthcare entity? - answers
The two process are clearly related. It is important for the CIO to be involved in both
processes to ensure that IS priorities are congruent with the overall strategic plans of
the entity.
Medical record number - answers One way to examine readmission's with a given time
frame at your faculty is to retrieve patient data for that time frame and look for duplicates
of which attribute common in clinical data sets?
A drug interaction alert would be a typical function of a _______. - answers Decision
support system
Which code set would be utilized to create a report showing a hospital's case mix
index? - answers DRG (Diagnosis Related Group)
A set of standards that provides universal names and codes for a laboratory and clinical
results is ___________. - answers LONIC
Your chief financial officer has contacted you because your facility's case-mix index
increased last year. He wish to hear your theory on why this is so. Among the options
below, which would best explain an increase in the case-mix index? - answers The
quality of clinical documentation improved
Activities of daily living (ADL) are components of - answers MDS and OASIS
Assume you are the manager of a 10-physician group primary care practice. The
physicians are interested in contracting with an application service provider to develop
and manage patient records electronically. Which of the following statements is an
indication that an ASP may be a good idea for this practice? - answers The practice
does not have an upfront capital or IT staff needed to purchase and implement a system
from a health information systems vendor.
,Maps from terminologies to classifications (and possibly from classifications to
terminologies) are expected to _____. - answers Facilitate "enter once, use many"
functionally
Which of the following basic services provided by an HIE entity ensures that information
can be retrieved as needed? - answers Secure data transport
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the optimal relationship
between strategic planning and strategic IM planning in a healthcare entity? - answers
The two process are clearly related. It is important for the CIO to be involved in both
processes to ensure that IS priorities are congruent with the overall strategic plans of
the entity.
Which type of indicators measure the actual results of care for patients and populations,
including patient and family satisfaction? - answers Outcome
Which of the following activities is likely to occur in the analysis phase of the systems
development life cycle? - answers Examine the current system and identify
opportunities for improvement
Which RVU component is best suited for measuring physician productivity? - answers
wRVU
The physician fee schedule is based on what component(s)? - answers All of these
Comparing the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM diabetes mellitus codes and documenting
variations creates a______________. - answers Data map
Medical security diagnosis-related groups (MS-DRGs) represent a prospective payment
system implemented by the CMS to reimburse hospitals a predetermined amount for
services provided to - answers inpatients
A research instrument that is used to gather data and information from respondents in a
uniform manner through the administration of a predefined and structured set of
questions and possible responses is called a(n) ________. - answers Survey
An example of a database that depends on standardized data definitions is
_____________. - answers A statewide cancer data system
Which of the following is an external user of data? - answers Public health department
Which of the following indexes and databases includes patient-identifiable information?
- answers Master population/patient index
HIM departments may be the hub of identifying, mitigating, and correcting MPI errors,
but that information often is not shared with other departments within the healthcare
, organization. After identifying procedural problems that contribute to the creation of the
MPI errors, which department should the MPI manager work with to correct these
procedural problems? - answers Registration of patient access
The inpatient data set incorporated into federal law and required for Medicare reporting
is the ____________. - answers Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
Standardized sets of valid, reliable, and evidence-based measures implemented by the
Joint Commissions are called _____________. - answers Core (performance)
measures
The computer-based process of extracting, quantifying, and filtering discrete data that
reside in a relational database is called ________. - answers Data mining
In terms of grouping and reimbursement, how are the MS-LTC-DRGs and acute care
MS-DRGs similar? - answers Organizing into MDCs (Major Diagnostic Category)
Which of the following is not a valid use of a relative weight assigned to each MS-DRG?
- answers Measure of cost of living
The leader of the coding performance improvement team wants all of her team
members to clearly understand the coding process. Which of the following would be the
best tool for accomplishing this objective? - answers Flowchart
Which of the following elements is found in a charge description master? - answers
Procedure or service charge
An audit tracking database would contain information from the health care claim
payment advice that is in what format? - answers 835
Data showing a physician's professional fee charges would be found on which billing
format? - answers CMS-1500
The practice of "normalization" of a database prevents duplication of data elements and
ensures the data conforms to a standard. There are three forms of normalization. The
third normal form requires which of the following? - answers Elimination fields that do
not depend on the key
Which of the following is the process of refining a data model to reduce redundant
storage of information and best describe the data and its relationships? - answers
Normalization
You need to interface data automatically from one clinical system to another. Which
framework is most commonly used for this purpose in the healthcare system? - answers
HL7