Health Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Health Information Systems explores the design, implementation, and management of computerized systems that collect, store, and analyze health data. This course covers key concepts such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, interoperability, health data standards, and privacy regulations. Students will learn how health information systems support clinical workflows, improve patient care, and enable data-driven decision-making in healthcare organizations. By examining real-world examples and current technologies, the course provides an understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in managing health information in both public and private healthcare settings.
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Health Information Management of a Strategic Resource 4th Edition by Mervat Abdelhak
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Chapter 1: Health Care Systems
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Q1) The federal government contracts with private insurance companies to process Medicare claims and payments for inpatient hospital care. What reference title is then given to this insurance company?
A) Fiscal intermediary
B) Managed care provider
C) Beneficiary
D) Subscriber
Answer: A
Q2) In addition to psychiatric care, what is the primary focus of health care in a psychiatric facility?
A) Clinical laboratory and pathology services
B) Restorative and adjustive services
C) Psychological and social services
D) Occupational and rehabilitative services
Answer: C
Q3) Medicaid reimbursement for health care services is administered by state government.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Health Informatics and Information Management
Profession
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Q1) Essentials for health information education programs are monitored by American Health Information Management Association in collaboration with the Joint Commission.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) States assume the function of licensing health care institutions.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) The amendments to the Social Security Act of 1965 resulted in both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) The first medical record organization was founded in 1938.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Health Information Infrastructure and Systems
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Q1) Facilitates electronic health care billing
A)HL7
B)DICOM
C)NCPDP
D)IEEE 1073
E)CHI
F)RxNorm
G)SNOMED
H)ASTM 1384
I)LOINC
J)HIPAA transactions
Answer: J
Q2) List three private organizations and their contribution to health information technology.
Answer: Any three of the organizations listed in Table 3-4 in the text .
Q3) The Institute of Medicine report "Crossing the Quality Chasm" links health care quality to health information technology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Health Data Concepts
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Q1) Good forms design divides forms into logical sections by rules.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The creation, authentication, and retention of health information in all health care settings is permitted and protected by federal legislation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) UADS
A)Data set for tracking the mix of patients in managed care
B)Comprehensive assessment of a long-term care patient
C)Data content standard by ASTM
D)Data set for hospitals used by federal and state agencies for billing
E)Agency that collects vital statistics data
F)Database supportive of health care policy and research
G)Agency that collects reportable morbidity information of public interest
H)Data set for ambulatory care
I)Agency that accredits rehabilitation organizations
J)Data set for home health care
K)Agency that encourages the use of guidelines to improve healthcare
L)Data set for long-term care
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Chapter 5: Electronic Health Record Systems
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Q1) A repository of selected electronic information from several transaction systems such as clinical laboratory and dietary is called a(n) ____________________.
Q2) Which of these languages is used frequently today for querying databases?
A) JAVA
B) MUMPS
C) Visual Basic
D) SQL
Q3) A patient record contains selected data elements for nonclinical uses called ____________________ data.
Q4) Which of these standards is not related to the others?
A) HTML
B) LOINC
C) XML
D) XForms
Q5) Identify and discuss three overlapping benefits of health information systems in health care organizations.
Q6) Computer processing of a natural language is called ___________________________________.
Q7) Write a definition of an electronic health record.
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Chapter
6:
Classification Systems, Clinical Vocabularies, and Terminology
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Q1) Develops standards for pharmacy information
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) Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) stores terms with the same meaning as synonyms.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Technology, Applications, and Security
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Q1) In what generation language would you find a program generator?
Q2) List the four popular database models.
Q3) List one reason why health care information systems have been able to expand in both scope and presence in most health care organizations.
Q4) Explain what S-HTTP refers to.
Q5) An industry standard sublanguage, command driven, designed to manipulate relational databases is known as:
A) SQL.
B) HL7.
C) Q&A.
D) R-ADT.
Q6) 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.
Q7) List one benefit of using an interface engine instead of a point-to-point interface.
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Chapter 8: Information Systems Life Cycle and Project Management
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Q1) Which of the following questions would be considered a structured question in an interview process?
A) Which of the following word processing packages do you use?
B) What do you consider to be the most critical problems with your current system?
C) What features in a computer system are most important to support your daily work tasks?
D) What are your three or four most important tasks?
Q2) Which of the following best describes cost-effectiveness evaluation?
A) Attempts to evaluate beneficial consequences in nonmonetary terms
B) Determines the costs to operate a current system
C) Assigns dollar values to the costs and benefits of a system
D) Determines whether a system will fully recover its cost
Q3) In a data dictionary notation for a data element, the label describes which of the following?
A) The project
B) The data name
C) The data entry type
D) The data value or meaning
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Chapter 9: Managing Electronic Health Record Systems:
Collaboration and Implementation
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Q1) When health information management (HIM) managers say that there are many "challenges" associated with a system implementation, what does the word challenges mean?
Q2) Done repeatedly
A)Project
B)Operations
Q3) It is possible to clearly understand the expected outcome of a systems project but not understand the process by which the team is obtaining the outcome.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Information staff members think in terms of business tasks.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Encompasses documentation of the entire system
A)Training manual
B)User manual
Q6) Trust is essential for the success of a major systems project.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Statistics and Data Presentation
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Q1) Ten patients were discharged from the obstetrical service on May 4 at Rocky Mountain Hospital. The day's stay for each patient was 3, 2, 1, 1, 6, 5, 1, 2, 2, and 4. What was the median day's stay for these patients?
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
Q2) What type of data is weight, height, temperature, pulse, cost, or charges in dollars?
A) Nominal
B) Ordinal
C) Discrete
D) Continuous
Q3) The ranking of variables according to some criterion is called _____ data.
A) Nominal
B) Ordinal
C) Discrete
D) Continuous
Q4) ____________________ is a measure of how often data are classified in the same manner.
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Chapter 11: Research and Epidemiology
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Q1) Age, sex, race
A)Independent variable
B)Dependent variable
C)Institutional review board
D)Risk factors
E)Specificity
F)Confounding variables
G)Case
H)Control
I)Research question
J)Historical-prospective study
K)Recall bias
L)Interviewer bias
Q2) In a cohort study, two groups free of disease are followed forward in time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Reliability assesses relevance, completeness, accuracy, and correctness.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Performance Management and Patient Safety
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Q1) A highly reliable measure will identify a large number of random errors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The underlying concept of lean thinking is:
A) Cost savings.
B) Improved quality.
C) Decreased errors.
D) Value.
Q3) The National Practitioner Data Bank contains information about:
A) Current health status.
B) Liability insurance coverage.
C) Adverse quality of care information.
D) Physicians' education and training.
Q4) Lean thinking is more about cost containment than about customer focus.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The mortality rate has been determined to be the most reliable clinical outcome measure.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Data Reporting, Interpretation, and Use
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Q1) In the physician office the codes for reimbursement may be assigned by those who have not been trained in established coding rules. Because of this:
A) The resulting codes may be more accurate than inpatient codes.
B) The resulting codes will be of equal quality to those generated in the inpatient coding process.
C) The resulting codes will be of lower quality than those generated in the inpatient coding process.
D) The resulting codes will be exactly the same.
Q2) Cancer registries have been established to:
A) Investigate the cause(s) of cancer as a disease.
B) Eradicate cancer as a disease.
C) Assess cancer incidence, treatment, and end results.
D) Monitor physician performance in treating cancer patients.
Q3) Which organ-specific registry is associated with the national Organ Procurement Transplantation Network?
A) Kidney
B) Heart/lung
C) Pancreas
D) All of the above
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Chapter 14: Privacy and Health Law
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Q1) Age of majority indicates the number of years one must be to be considered an adult under state law.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
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) A breach of contractual duty may possibly occur when a physician discloses health information to a close long-time friend of a patient without the patient's authorization. A)True
B)False
Q5) A tort action is likely for an unconsented surgical procedure.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Human Resource Management
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Q1) Effective diversity management
A) Suppress 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
Q2) Job descriptions are helpful in minimizing role ambiguity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most effective job description directly anchors the critical success factors of the organization to the expected outcomes of a job.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Job evaluation by use of a factor and point system provides an objective measure of the employee's performance in his or her job.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Operational Management
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Q1) The task of strategic planning in an organization would most likely be completed by:
A) Top management.
B) Middle managers.
C) Consultants.
D) Supervisors.
Q2) Departmental productivity standards help employees understand expected job performance.
A)True
B)False
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) The color red has the effect of putting workers to sleep.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Revenue Cycle and Financial Management
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Q1) The CFO asks you to compare the value of purchasing new high-speed photocopying equipment with contracted copying services. What capital expenditure evaluation method would you use?
Q2) After the imaging proposal was approved, the health information manager was able to complete the operating budget for consolidation in the hospital's ____________________ budget.
Q3) Referring to the information given, what is the payback period for the optical imaging system components only?
Q4) To analyze what has actually been expended compared with that which was budgeted can he determined from the ____________________ report.
Q5) Because the proposed imaging system is competing with other departmental proposals for authorized funding, what capital evaluation measure, in particular, is expected to be analyzed before the hospital makes an objective decision?
A) Net present value
B) Payback method
C) Account rate of return
D) Both b and c
Q6) Referring to the information given, compute the current ratio.
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