Health Informatics
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Course Introduction
Health Informatics is an interdisciplinary field that combines healthcare, information technology, and data management to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of health information for better patient care and decision-making. This course explores the principles and practices of electronic health records, health information systems, data analytics, and privacy and security in healthcare settings. Students will learn how informatics supports clinical workflows, patient safety, population health, and the integration of innovative technologies in healthcare delivery. The course also covers relevant regulatory, ethical, and legal considerations, preparing students to address the challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation in healthcare environments.
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Health Information Management of a Strategic Resource 5th Edition by Mervat Abdelhak
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Chapter 1: Health Care Systems
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Q1) A(n) ____________________ is a legal written document that specifies a patient's preference regarding future health care, especially in relation to resuscitation and life-extending measures.
Answer: Advance
Q2) In large organizations the hospital's nursing staff will be led by an administrator who is responsible for ensuring good clinical quality of care. This person is most likely to be the
A) Chief quality officer.
B) Chief executive officer
C) Chief nursing officer
D) Chief operating officer
Answer: C
Q3) Which one of the following was the impetus for the accreditation of medical schools initiated by the American Medical Association?
A) Flexner Report
B) Papyri documents
C) Hippocratic oath
D) Hospital standardization program
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Health Informatics and Information
Management Profession
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Q1) The earliest medical records in the United States had some characteristics of a business record.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The first minimum standards pertaining to physicians and hospitals in the United States were established by the American College of Surgeons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A registered health information administrator (RHIA) who also holds a certified health data analyst (CHDA) credential needs 40 continuing-education units (CEUs) for the 2-year reporting cycle.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Health Information Infrastructure and Systems
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Q1) Acquire new knowledge to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.
A)National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
B)National Institutes of Health
C)Office of the National Coordinator
D)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
E)Health Resources and Services Administration
Answer: A
Q2) Governmental agencies participate in the Consolidated Health Information Initiative plan to share medical information with one another.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel reports to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Health Data Concepts and Information
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Q1) Name a data element comprising socioeconomic data.
Q2) The meaningful electronic exchange of detailed patient data elements requires the use of common data definitions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Third-party payers use primary data for health care reimbursement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 102.4 (temperature field)
A)Text/categorical
B)Narrative/textual
C)Logic
D)Quantitative
Q5) Good forms design divides forms into logical sections by rules.
A)True
B)False
Q6) When reference is made to health care data having integrity, it means that the data are complete and accurate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Data Access and Retention
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Q1) You have just assumed a position as HIM Director of a large HIM department in a different state, and you are faced with an overflowing paper file unit in the hospital. You need to determine how long various health records must be maintained. As part of your research, you would
A) Explore state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to health record retention.
B) Place record retention issues on the Medical Record Committee agenda.
C) Review categorical guidelines as advice in absence of state law.
D) All of the above.
Q2) In the number 23-10-52, which two digits are the secondary digits in a terminal digit filing system?
A) 52
B) 10
C) 23
D) 31
Q3) An alphabetically arranged database used for the location of patient records in a numeric identification system is called a ______________________________.
Q4) A written description of a proposed system's concepts is a _______________________________________.
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Chapter 6: Electronic Health Record Systems
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Q1) Define "users" as related to health information systems.
Q2) When determining how long you must retain paper or computerized health information and health records, you consult
A) Your organization's legal counsel.
B) Your state laws.
C) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidelines.
D) All of the above.
Q3) From a quality perspective, EHRs have resulted in which of the following?
A) System alerts prompt nursing staff to meet their schedule.
B) Medication processes are more streamlined.
C) Reductions in illegible order have been reduced.
D) Nurse time on direct patient care is increased after EHRs are in place.
E) a, b, c
F) All of the above
Q4) An electronic health record system includes rules and procedures.
A)True B)False
Q5) Computer processing of a natural language is called
Q6) Name one use of secondary data.
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Chapter 7: Classification Systems, Clinical Vocabularies and Terminology
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Q1) Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) disease concepts include morphology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) is used with Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System for coding in physician offices.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Data exchange of semantic content means the meaning of the message is sent and received.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is used to query the National Library of Medicine's database.
A)True B)False
Q5) When various analysts compare codes in ICD-10-CM to ICD-9-CM, they use software that is referred to as _________________________.
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Chapter 8: Technology, Applications and Security
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Q1) What are the typical five roles defined in role-based access control (RBAC)?
Q2) An example of malware is
A) An attachment to an e-mail message.
B) A Web site that is collecting personal information without permission of the user.
C) A macro that is operating on a computer without permission of the user.
D) None of the above.
Q3) A virtual machine is able to be connected directly to the information warehouse.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Communications technology is the connecting medium for local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs).
A)True
B)False
Q5) Secure socket layer (SSL) is an example of public key/private key encryption.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List three functions that an ADT system can support.
Q7) A repository of electronic information about many patients is called a
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Chapter 9: Health Information Systems: Collaboration,
Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Operations
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Q1) A _______________manual lists, defines, and describes system features, while a _______________manual describes system features critical to specific users.
Q2) All of the following statements are True regarding interviewing for systems development EXCEPT
A) The interview should be 60 minutes or less.
B) Interviews may contain a mixture of structured and unstructured questions.
C) All end-users of an information system must be interviewed.
D) The interview protocol should be field-tested.
Q3) These tools need to be updated on a regular basis to assure they meet the latest discoveries, medication interactions, and any quality-of-care issues. They are called ___________________________ tools.
Q4) When a HIM director realizes there is a problem with attending physicians receiving their transcribed reports in the EHR for authentication, she decides to use tools to identify where the issue(s) is(are) occurring. The general term for these tools is(are) ___________________________ tools.
Q5) When the HIM director and her management team are meeting to decide on the necessities of a new coding system for ICD-11, they are in the ____________________ phase.
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Chapter 10: Statistics and Data Presentation
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Q1) When should the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) be used?
A) When age-specific rates are available
B) When the number of deaths per age category is large
C) When age-specific rates are not available
D) All of the above
Q2) Which statistic is most appropriate to use when describing ordinal or ranked data?
A) Mean
B) Median
C) Mode
D) Standard deviation
Q3) Which statistic represents the number of individuals in a specific category divided by the number of individuals in the category?
A) Rate
B) Percentage
C) Proportion
D) Ratio
Q4) The ____________________ is the average number of observations.
Q5) A whole number divided in 100 parts is a ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Research and Epidemiology
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Q1) Assertion to be proved
A)Hypothesis
B)Methodology
C)Specific aims
D)Literature review
E)Validity
F)Reliability
G)Bias
H)Prevalence
I)Incidence
Q2) When conducting a case-control or retrospective study, a researcher should match cases on variables known to be associated with the disease or the exposure under study.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A major advantage of a prospective study is that its results can be measured after a very short time.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Performance Management and Patient Safety
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Q1) Accreditation refers to the credentialing process for an individual health professional.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A structure measure is direct measure of quality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a physician reviews the health records of another physician, this is often called peer review.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Structure measures of quality are dynamic indicators of organizational performance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most problem-solving models begin with
A) Data collection.
B) Risk assessment.
C) Team formation.
D) An expected outcome.
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Chapter 13: Data Analytics: Reporting, Interpretation, and Use
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Q1) The major benefits of implementing an electronic death registration system include all of the following except
A) Greater efficiency and timeliness of death registration.
B) Higher quality of data with real-time edits.
C) Increased security and fraud prevention.
D) Less collaboration among providers and death registration users.
Q2) Use of aggregate data from various payers is limited because of
A) Differing providers and coding systems from provider data.
B) Lack of legal right to data for encounter information.
C) Differing diagnostic code requirements for reimbursement.
D) Lack of data sharing agreements and differing data elements for the longitudinal records.
Q3) When health care organizations compare their organizations' patient safety and quality indicators against peer organizations that are known for their excellence, they are using which of the following tools?
A) Benchmarking
B) Decision Support
C) Administrative Analysis
D) Consumer Assessment of Health Providers & Systems Survey (CAHPS)
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Chapter 14: Public Health Informatics
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Q1) HIM professionals can contribute to improving prevention of injuries by
A) Advocating for the required use of external use of injury coding in all hospitals and emergency departments.
B) Adding injury data to their facility's syndromic surveillance reporting.
C) Becoming knowledgeable about Joint Commission publications on external injury data.
D) Both a and c
Q2) Public health provides both direct clinical services and community services.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the U.S. states near the Mexico border, which had the highest number of reported cases of tuberculosis (2010)?
A) Texas
B) Arizona
C) California
D) New Mexico
Q4) Mexico has more current cases of tuberculosis than the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Eradicating tuberculosis is an example of a _____________________goal.
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Chapter 15: Privacy and Health Law
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Q1) Which is a practical criterion for determining whether information is confidential or nonconfidential?
A) Was the information exchanged through a patient-provider relationship?
B) Was the information needed to treat or diagnose the patient?
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b
Q2) Age of majority indicates the number of years one must be to be considered an adult under state law.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Patient Self-Determination Act requires that health care organizations inquire whether patients have advance directives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If an order to appear in court and to bring patient records with you is defective because some key information is missing, the subpoena can be ignored.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The U.S. Bill of Rights is a source of ____________________ law.
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Chapter 16: Human Resource Management
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Q1) A manager's right to require or prohibit certain actions refers to his or her
A) Authority.
B) Responsibility.
C) Power.
D) Charisma.
Q2) Effective diversity management
A) Suppresses all conflicts based on racial or ethnic tensions.
B) Insures that the number of employees in the workplace are equally balanced in terms of gender, race, disability status, and sexual orientation.
C) Provides a culture in which employees and clients accept and value individual differences.
D) All of the above.
Q3) The principle of "employment at will" protects the employee from termination without just cause.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the primary purpose of a progressive preventive disciplinary process?
Q5) Identify aspects of this instrument that you would change to improve its effective use in practice.
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Chapter 17: Operational Management
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Q1) A statistical report of the quarterly clinical record review that contains errors and needs to be redone would be counted as a "productive unit of work."
A)True B)False
Q2) When the director of HIM organizes a meeting to brainstorm what kinds of services the HIM department will be performing in 5-10 years, she is asking stakeholders to create a _______________.
Q3) The primary advantage of using a decision matrix in the decision process is
A) All relevant information can be displayed and viewed at the same time.
B) The matrix clearly displays the flow of information.
C) The matrix makes the decision for the individual or group.
D) The matrix identifies all potential problems.
Q4) If work being performed in a health care setting requires handling confidential information, then the space design should factor confidentiality into the space planning process.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 18: Revenue Cycle and Financial Management
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Q1) Referring to the information given, compute the days of revenue in patient accounts receivable.
Q2) The current ratio is a measurement of performance for evaluating the effective use of resources to deliver a service.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Name the four general types of budgets.
Q4) The financial accountant will add a designated account to the ____________________ for processing each transaction for the new imaging service.
Q5) When calculating the net accounts receivable turnover ratio, the correct divisor is net accounts receivables.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In the process of calculating the net cash outflow, equipment depreciation was considered an outflow. Do you agree?
A)True
B)False
Q7) ____________________ is an example of fixed costs.
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