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WGU C427 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
A patient visits a provider and is admitted to the hospital. The hospital and
provider have achieved stage 2 meaningful use and are part of a health
information exchange.
How can the admitting hospital use the health information exchange to
obtain this patient's information?
Call the provider
E-mail the provider
Review the patient portal record
Access the summary of care record - ANS ✓Access the summary of care record
Two facilities in the same state are members of the state operated health
information exchange (HIE). Both facilities have different electronic health
record (EHR) systems and wish to exchange information with the HIE
system.
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What should be used?
Virtual care team
Health Level 7 (HL7) standard
Interface engine links to databases
Clinical Document Architecture - ANS ✓Health Level 7 (HL7) standard
A hospital was contacted to join a community-based health information
exchange (HIE). During the initial meeting, representatives from the IT
department discussed the system requirements. The team's goal is to make
sure that data integrity and timeliness is ensured.
Which standard will support the accomplishment of this goal?
HL7
HIPAA
LOINC
SNOMED - ANS ✓HL7
A physician's office sends all urine specimens out to an independent
reference lab for culture. The reference lab is on a different computerized
patient record system that does not interface with the physician's office
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system, and results must be entered into the patient records manually by
the staff at the physician's office.
Why is this scenario a concern?
The data must be entered by a physician
Manual entry requires a high level of experience
Entering the data manually increases the risk of errors
Retrieval of the results is delayed to the lack of interface - ANS ✓Entering
the data manually increases the risk of errors
To create an integrated healthcare delivery system, a hospital formed
linkages with other healthcare entities such as physicians, insurers, and
providers.
What is a benefit of this system to the patient?
Shared risk
Eliminated cost shifting
Increased quality of care
Decreased unnecessary resource use - ANS ✓Increased quality of care
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To create an integrated healthcare delivery system, a hospital formed
linkages with other healthcare entities such as physicians, insurers, and
providers.
What is a benefit of this system to the provider?
Increased care quality
Enhanced network security
Seamless continuum of care
Improved community health status - ANS ✓Increased care quality
An elderly patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is
not able to move around easily. The patient lives alone, but is part of an
outpatient telemedicine service offered by the local hospital that collects
data transmitted daily by the patient.
Which technical concern is a common challenge that should be anticipated
for the remote service?
The physician is not able to access the patient's data.
The data cannot be transmitted because the WIFI is down.
The patient has forgotten how to operate the remote device.
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WGU
WGU C427 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
A patient visits a provider and is admitted to the hospital. The hospital and
provider have achieved stage 2 meaningful use and are part of a health
information exchange.
How can the admitting hospital use the health information exchange to
obtain this patient's information?
Call the provider
E-mail the provider
Review the patient portal record
Access the summary of care record - ANS ✓Access the summary of care record
Two facilities in the same state are members of the state operated health
information exchange (HIE). Both facilities have different electronic health
record (EHR) systems and wish to exchange information with the HIE
system.
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What should be used?
Virtual care team
Health Level 7 (HL7) standard
Interface engine links to databases
Clinical Document Architecture - ANS ✓Health Level 7 (HL7) standard
A hospital was contacted to join a community-based health information
exchange (HIE). During the initial meeting, representatives from the IT
department discussed the system requirements. The team's goal is to make
sure that data integrity and timeliness is ensured.
Which standard will support the accomplishment of this goal?
HL7
HIPAA
LOINC
SNOMED - ANS ✓HL7
A physician's office sends all urine specimens out to an independent
reference lab for culture. The reference lab is on a different computerized
patient record system that does not interface with the physician's office
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system, and results must be entered into the patient records manually by
the staff at the physician's office.
Why is this scenario a concern?
The data must be entered by a physician
Manual entry requires a high level of experience
Entering the data manually increases the risk of errors
Retrieval of the results is delayed to the lack of interface - ANS ✓Entering
the data manually increases the risk of errors
To create an integrated healthcare delivery system, a hospital formed
linkages with other healthcare entities such as physicians, insurers, and
providers.
What is a benefit of this system to the patient?
Shared risk
Eliminated cost shifting
Increased quality of care
Decreased unnecessary resource use - ANS ✓Increased quality of care
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To create an integrated healthcare delivery system, a hospital formed
linkages with other healthcare entities such as physicians, insurers, and
providers.
What is a benefit of this system to the provider?
Increased care quality
Enhanced network security
Seamless continuum of care
Improved community health status - ANS ✓Increased care quality
An elderly patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is
not able to move around easily. The patient lives alone, but is part of an
outpatient telemedicine service offered by the local hospital that collects
data transmitted daily by the patient.
Which technical concern is a common challenge that should be anticipated
for the remote service?
The physician is not able to access the patient's data.
The data cannot be transmitted because the WIFI is down.
The patient has forgotten how to operate the remote device.
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