IHS MAIN EXAMINATION SET 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What are opportunities in IHS? - ✔✔ambulatory clinics (anticoag,pain management,
diabetes, asthma, CHF/lipid/HTN, etc.)
ambulatory pharmacist
home infusion services, managed care (health plan pharmacies,
mail service pharmacy, pharmacy benefit management)
acute care (hospitals)
✔✔ What is an integrated health system - ✔✔It is a system that combine physicians,
hospitals, and other medical services, along with a health plan, to provide overall
medical care for its patients and customers. Hospitals along with physicians, diagnostic
centers, and other components of the supply side of the supply chain strive to share
info, minimize duplication, and make treatment decisions based on institutional best
practices
✔✔What are the objectives of integrated health systems? - ✔✔Growth, clinical
integration, customer satisfaction, and low cost providers
✔✔Objective=Growth - ✔✔Provides high quality care and cost efficiency with less
duplicate services (free duplicate resources).
✔✔Objective=Clinical Integration - ✔✔- Provides as a continuum of care via the
healthcare triad- physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
-Barriers include lack of population based planning, dispersed geography, and
inadequate information systems
✔✔Objective=Customer Satisfaction - ✔✔- Includes using report cards to demonstrate
high quality outcomes provided by the health systems (poor scores=reimbursed less)
-Barrier includes limited info system capability
✔✔Objective=Low cost providers - ✔✔Allows managing health by driving efficiency and
lowering costs.
Funding for health care will become more limited as more dollars are required "up-front"
from patients
✔✔What are the successful components of the integrated healthcare system? - ✔✔○
Functional - Key support functions are coordinated across HC systems to add the
greatest overall value/
, ○ Physician System - Doctors are economically linked to the system and actively take
part in its planning and management.
○ Clinical - Patient services are coordinated to maximize value.
✔✔Why integration? - ✔✔To develop an organized delivery system
✔✔The integrated health system develops an organized delivery system to provide... -
✔✔○ coordinated continuum of health services (from A to B)
○ responds to a defined population
○ accept clinical (clinical youre doing the right way) and fiscal accountability (don't do it
in a cost efficient manner, you'll be out of business) for the populations health outcomes
○When someone buys another, things don't stay the same. There are advantages but
typically things don't stay the same.
✔✔Integrated Health System (IDN) is successful because all of the concepts and
definitions include a single commonality... - ✔✔Increased communication and
information sharing across the continuum
✔✔Key principles of integration include... - ✔✔Comprehensive services across the care
continuum
Patient focus
Geographic coverage
Standardized care delivery through interprofessional teams
Performance management
Info systems
Organizational culture and leadership
Physician integration
Governance structure
FInancial Management
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What are opportunities in IHS? - ✔✔ambulatory clinics (anticoag,pain management,
diabetes, asthma, CHF/lipid/HTN, etc.)
ambulatory pharmacist
home infusion services, managed care (health plan pharmacies,
mail service pharmacy, pharmacy benefit management)
acute care (hospitals)
✔✔ What is an integrated health system - ✔✔It is a system that combine physicians,
hospitals, and other medical services, along with a health plan, to provide overall
medical care for its patients and customers. Hospitals along with physicians, diagnostic
centers, and other components of the supply side of the supply chain strive to share
info, minimize duplication, and make treatment decisions based on institutional best
practices
✔✔What are the objectives of integrated health systems? - ✔✔Growth, clinical
integration, customer satisfaction, and low cost providers
✔✔Objective=Growth - ✔✔Provides high quality care and cost efficiency with less
duplicate services (free duplicate resources).
✔✔Objective=Clinical Integration - ✔✔- Provides as a continuum of care via the
healthcare triad- physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
-Barriers include lack of population based planning, dispersed geography, and
inadequate information systems
✔✔Objective=Customer Satisfaction - ✔✔- Includes using report cards to demonstrate
high quality outcomes provided by the health systems (poor scores=reimbursed less)
-Barrier includes limited info system capability
✔✔Objective=Low cost providers - ✔✔Allows managing health by driving efficiency and
lowering costs.
Funding for health care will become more limited as more dollars are required "up-front"
from patients
✔✔What are the successful components of the integrated healthcare system? - ✔✔○
Functional - Key support functions are coordinated across HC systems to add the
greatest overall value/
, ○ Physician System - Doctors are economically linked to the system and actively take
part in its planning and management.
○ Clinical - Patient services are coordinated to maximize value.
✔✔Why integration? - ✔✔To develop an organized delivery system
✔✔The integrated health system develops an organized delivery system to provide... -
✔✔○ coordinated continuum of health services (from A to B)
○ responds to a defined population
○ accept clinical (clinical youre doing the right way) and fiscal accountability (don't do it
in a cost efficient manner, you'll be out of business) for the populations health outcomes
○When someone buys another, things don't stay the same. There are advantages but
typically things don't stay the same.
✔✔Integrated Health System (IDN) is successful because all of the concepts and
definitions include a single commonality... - ✔✔Increased communication and
information sharing across the continuum
✔✔Key principles of integration include... - ✔✔Comprehensive services across the care
continuum
Patient focus
Geographic coverage
Standardized care delivery through interprofessional teams
Performance management
Info systems
Organizational culture and leadership
Physician integration
Governance structure
FInancial Management
