Health Information Management Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Health Information Management focuses on the principles and practices involved in acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to providing quality patient care. The course covers topics such as health data standards, electronic health records, legal and ethical considerations, data privacy and security, coding systems, and the role of health information professionals in supporting healthcare delivery and system management. Emphasizing both theoretical knowledge and practical skills, students learn to manage health information systems efficiently while adhering to regulatory policies and promoting effective communication within healthcare organizations.
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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) If an emergency department physician fails to stabilize an indigent patient before transferring the patient to another facility, he or she is in violation of
A) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
B) Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
C) Patient Self-Determination Act.
D) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Answer: B
Q2) What did the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 mandate?
A) The Medicaid program
B) The prospective payment system
C) Managed care services
D) Conditions of Participation
Answer: B
Q3) The CEO is employed by and is directly responsible to the
A) Governing body.
B) Joint conference committee.
C) Medical staff organization.
D) Executive committee.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Health Informatics and Information
Management Profession
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Q1) Appropriate use of hospital resources and the quality of patient care was precipitated by Medicare legislation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Joint Commission accreditation preempts the need for state licensing of a health care organization in all 50 states.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) To provide continued health care to the public, a health care organization must demonstrate compliance with state licensing regulations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The principal source of reimbursement information is the clinical record.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Health Information Infrastructure and Systems
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Q1) The Institute of Medicine report "Crossing the Quality Chasm" recommends that vendors help build an information infrastructure to support the elimination of handwritten clinical notes.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) In 2004, President George W. Bush publicly supported building a national health information infrastructure.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Coordinate policy and programs to develop, apply, and use health information technology.
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: B
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Chapter 4: Health Data Concepts and Information
Governance
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Q1) A data element is the same as a data item.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Categorical data in a database would include patient date of birth, sex, race, and disposition on discharge.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Transposition of a patient medical record number can be detected by a
A) Check digit.
B) Sequencing check.
C) Format check.
D) Transaction check.
Q4) What is the nominal title for ASTM Standard E 1384?
A) Standards for Patient Privacy, Confidentiality, and Access
B) Standards for Authentication of Health Information
C) Standards for Content and Structure of the Electronic Health Record
D) None of the above
Q5) The abbreviation ____________________ refers to the ability to exchange data electronically.
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Q6) Describe three principles of computer view design.
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Chapter 5: Data Access and Retention
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Q1) An alphabetically arranged database used for the location of patient records in a numeric identification system is called a ______________________________.
Q2) How many primary sections are used in a terminal digit filing system?
A) 10
B) 100
C) 1,000
D) 10,000
Q3) One advantage to storing health records is to contract with a commercial storage company for both storage, retrieval, and filing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Referring to the information above, when was Mr. Rocky States last treated as an outpatient?
Q5) ______________________________ is one advantage of implementing an electronic document management (EDM) system.
Q6) Bar code technology cannot be used for tracking radiology file folders.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Electronic Health Record Systems
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Q1) 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.
Q2) When considering how users retrieve information from an electronic health record (EHR), implementers should consider
A) Document titles.
B) Templates.
C) Copying and pasting.
D) Timeliness.
Q3) Successful selection and implementation of electronic health records requires that key barriers be addressed. Identify three barriers.
Q4) A patient record contains selected data elements for nonclinical uses called ____________________ data.
Q5) Health informatics is the science that deals with _________________, its ____________, ________________, and its _______________.
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Chapter 7: Classification Systems, Clinical Vocabularies and Terminology
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Q1) Publishes the international classification of diseases
A)MeSH
B)ASTM
C)DICOM
D)CHI
E)CAP
F)RELMA
G)HITSP
H)LOINC
I)NCVHS
J)NCPDP
K)IEEE
L)ISO
M)WHO
N)UMLS
O)NDC
Q2) Classifications are intended to aggregate and group information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the purposes of coding diseases and operations.
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Chapter 8: Technology, Applications and Security
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Q1) Define an ERP.
Q2) A primary feature that a radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag contains that a bar code does not is that
A) An RFID tag has write-many capabilities.
B) An RFID tag can be printed on labels.
C) An RFID tag number will never be repeated.
D) An RFID tag is less expensive than a bar code.
Q3) A wireless network can be secured with the use of A) Wired equivalent privacy protocol.
B) A firewall.
C) A virtual private network.
D) All of the above.
Q4) Frames are required to be in each Web page containing health information. A)True
B)False
Q5) List one difference between thick-client and thin-client computers.
Q6) A virtual machine is able to be connected directly to the information warehouse. A)True
B)False
Q7) In what generation language would you find a program generator?
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Chapter 9: Health Information Systems: Collaboration,
Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Operations
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Q1) Which of the following provides a global view of the information and forms the basis for the physical design of the database?
A) RFPs
B) DFDs
C) ERDs
D) Data dictionary
Q2) Icons have cross-cultural advantages over dialog and menu interfaces when considering systems design.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A _______________manual lists, defines, and describes system features, while a _______________manual describes system features critical to specific users.
Q4) Criteria for evaluating vendor responses to RFPs should encompass each of the following considerations EXCEPT
A) RFP distribution considerations.
B) Hardware and software considerations.
C) Vendor considerations.
D) Economic considerations.
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Chapter 10: Statistics and Data Presentation
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Q1) The ____________________ denotes the middlemost value when the values are arranged in numerical order.
Q2) The ____________________ is the average number of observations.
Q3) The average length of stay for a patient who was admitted and died on the same day is 1 day.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the average length of stay for the following patients: 4, 3, 2, 5, 5,10?
A) 5.8
B) 4.8
C) 6.0
D) 7.8
Q5) Which is the average number of days of service for each inpatient discharged within a given period?
A) Median
B) Inpatient census
C) Average length of stay
D) Occupancy average
Q6) A whole number divided in 100 parts is a ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Research and Epidemiology
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Q1) Prospective studies are most useful for investigating diseases of high incidence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In a causal relationship, the cause is the independent variable, and the effect is the dependent variable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Used when researcher has loss of subjects
A)Cross-sectional study
B)Descriptive study
C)Analytic study
D)Case-control study
E)Odds ratio
F)Relative risk
G)Prospective study
H)Clinical trial
I)Life-table analysis
J)Outcome measures
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Chapter 12: Performance Management and Patient Safety
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Q1) Indirect measures of performance are referred to as A) Guidelines.
B) End results.
C) Advocacy.
D) Indicators.
Q2) Lean thinking is more about cost containment than about customer focus.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Organizations such as the National Quality Forum were established to
A) Promote collaborative efforts to improve health care quality.
B) Decrease the cost of health care.
C) Provide oversight of health care facilities and individual providers.
D) Create a forum for health care consumers to interact with lawmakers.
Q4) Which of the following is not one of the core measure areas for the Joint Commission?
A) Acute myocardial infarction
B) Heart failure
C) Community-acquired pneumonia
D) Palliative care
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Chapter 13: Data Analytics: Reporting, Interpretation, and Use
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Q1) The process of developing a data dictionary involves which of the following?
A) It is a consensus among individuals to share information in a specified way so that all participants derive the same meaning from the content.
B) Accumulating a list of data elements over time so that new elements are captured as the electronic health record evolves
C) Performance indicators are constantly evolving, and it facilitates sharing of information.
D) It is an information repository that gives participants several meanings on the basis of the content of the electronic health record.
Q2) Which of the following lead agencies has the primary responsibility to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness by collecting data on published Patient Quality and Patient Safety Indicators?
A) The Leapfrog Group
B) Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
C) Texas Medical Foundation Health Quality Institute
D) Health Grades
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Chapter 14: Public Health Informatics
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Q1) An example of public health population-based data is
A) All school-age children with the diagnosis of Hansen's disease.
B) All licensed drivers over the age of 65.
C) All deaths occurring in an acute care hospital within specified time frames.
D) All of the above.
Q2) What disease does coronavirus cause?
A) Ebola
B) Rubella
C) MERS
D) SARS
Q3) As eligible health professionals and hospitals adopt, implement, and upgrade their EHR systems through the CMS EHR Incentive programs (Meaningful Use programs), there is an opportunity for public health agencies (PHAs) to receive health data routinely from settings other than emergency departments and urgent care centers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Eradicating tuberculosis is an example of a _____________________goal.
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Chapter 15: Privacy and Health Law
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Q1) Laws that give patients the right to access their own health information include all except
A) Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records.
B) Federal Privacy Act.
C) Freedom of Information Act.
D) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Q2) A patient is claiming negligence for a fall in the hospital that resulted in a fracture of the elbow. It is not likely this patient can claim negligence unless there was evidence that the provider breached a duty.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In setting facility policies for patient access to their health information, name the two most important sources of law that the health information management (HIM) professional should consult.
Q4) Once a paper-based health record has been converted onto microfilm, optical disk, or computerized storage, the information cannot be used as evidence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Human Resource Management
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Q1) What are some methods a manager may use to provide regular feedback to staff and keep communication lines open?
Q2) All the following statements are True of effective employee recruitment EXCEPT
A) Recruitment targets should be based on human resource supply and demand analysis.
B) The most cost-effective form of recruitment for any health care position is local newspaper advertisement.
C) Recruitment should be evaluated for its costs and benefits like any other human resources management function.
D) Yield analysis is one quantitative method of evaluating the relative effectiveness of various recruitment activities.
Q3) Which of these functions is typically not a responsibility of human resource management?
A) Collective bargaining
B) Physician credentialing
C) Employee handbooks
D) Employee training and development
Q4) What does the Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act make illegal?
Q5) Name three reasons why job analysis is useful.
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Chapter 17: Operational Management
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Q1) A _________________ can be used to determine alternative actions for solving a problem such as when there is an unexpected volume of requests by patients for medical records.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Organizing the health information department of a large ambulatory care center into teams to provide services to particular clinics is an example of which type of work organization?
A) Functional
B) Customer
C) Process
D) Project
Q4) When planning a project implementation of an EHR in a small physician office, "What is the opportunity? What is to be done? Who is responsible for the project? When must it be completed?" are all components of what part of defining the project?
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Chapter 18: Revenue Cycle and Financial Management
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Q1) Referring to the information given, compute the current ratio.
Q2) What is the major conceptual difference between zero-base budgeting and conventional budgeting?
Q3) What are "rolling budgets?"
Q4) List the major phases in developing the revenue budget.
Q5) A free-standing ambulatory care center incurs medical record folder costs of $3 per new patient and has a monthly rent payment on its space of $12,000. Which of these is a variable cost?
Q6) Explain the benefits of performing ratio analysis.
Q7) The health information manager would include the estimated upkeep costs and supplies for the proposed imaging system in the ____________________ budget.
Q8) An organization's current liabilities can be located on its income statement. A)True B)False
Q9) One of the financial statements most useful to the director of Health Information Management is the
Q11) What is the purpose of a budget? Page 21
Q10) Why is the cash budget so important in managing a health care institution?
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