CHIMA EXAM PREP - HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
1. Which stage is stated to be the most important stage in the health informa-
tion lifecycle?
a. Maintenance and protection
b. Information management planning
c. Evaluation
d. Capture and collection
*Answer√√ b. Information management planning
2. Which stage of the health information life cycle ensures that necessary
safeguards are in place for the appropriate use of patient information?
a. Governance and accountability
b. Capture and collection
c. Disposition
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MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
d. Access, use and dissemination
*Answer√√ a. Governance and accountability
3. If a healthcare organization plans to exchange health information with other
organizations, the data created must meet what international standard?
a. CIHI
b. EHRS BluePrint Version 2
c. IHE Cross Document Sharing profile
d. Heath Level Seven International (HL7)
*Answer√√ d. Heath Level Seven International (HL7)
4. An example of unstructured data is
a. an electrocardiogram
b. digital heart sounds
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MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
c. ultrasound data
d. transcribed reports
*Answer√√ d. transcribed reports
5. An example of discrete, structured data is
a. free-text boxes on-line
b. nuclear medicine stored as bit mapped
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MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
c. medication orders
d. cardiac catheterizations
*Answer√√ c. medication orders
6. What should be developed for direct charting, voice recognition or tran-
scribed documents to promote the consistent use of language and expres-
sion?
a. Organization-specific lists of abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
b. A staff education program on implications to patient safety of misinterpret-
ed truncated words or characters
c. Templates
d. Data Dictionary
*Answer√√ c. Templates
7. Acceptable authentication for electronic records includes the author using
MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
1. Which stage is stated to be the most important stage in the health informa-
tion lifecycle?
a. Maintenance and protection
b. Information management planning
c. Evaluation
d. Capture and collection
*Answer√√ b. Information management planning
2. Which stage of the health information life cycle ensures that necessary
safeguards are in place for the appropriate use of patient information?
a. Governance and accountability
b. Capture and collection
c. Disposition
, CHIMA EXAM PREP - HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
d. Access, use and dissemination
*Answer√√ a. Governance and accountability
3. If a healthcare organization plans to exchange health information with other
organizations, the data created must meet what international standard?
a. CIHI
b. EHRS BluePrint Version 2
c. IHE Cross Document Sharing profile
d. Heath Level Seven International (HL7)
*Answer√√ d. Heath Level Seven International (HL7)
4. An example of unstructured data is
a. an electrocardiogram
b. digital heart sounds
, CHIMA EXAM PREP - HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
c. ultrasound data
d. transcribed reports
*Answer√√ d. transcribed reports
5. An example of discrete, structured data is
a. free-text boxes on-line
b. nuclear medicine stored as bit mapped
, CHIMA EXAM PREP - HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MOVING TOWARDS AN EHR
c. medication orders
d. cardiac catheterizations
*Answer√√ c. medication orders
6. What should be developed for direct charting, voice recognition or tran-
scribed documents to promote the consistent use of language and expres-
sion?
a. Organization-specific lists of abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
b. A staff education program on implications to patient safety of misinterpret-
ed truncated words or characters
c. Templates
d. Data Dictionary
*Answer√√ c. Templates
7. Acceptable authentication for electronic records includes the author using
