1.Telehealth is provided for
-Homebound patients or those with limited access to transportation, rural populations that lack access to primary care, and those recently discharged from hospitals
2. Health literacy skills include the ability to
- All of these are correct
3.Linda is an occupational therapist who works for a home health agency based in Pennsylvania, very near the Ohio border. She is assigned to monitor the home telehealth patients for one week to cover for another therapist who is on vacation. Which of the following is correct?
-Linda must be licensed to practice occupational therapy in both Pennsylvania and Ohio if telehealth patients are located in both states
4.Individuals having the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information is known as
-Health literacy
5.A unit of measure that reflects the services received by one inpatient during a 24-hour period is called (IPSD) which is an abbreviation for
-Inpatient Service Day
6.Technical security under HIPAA involves issues such as whether sensitive data need to be protected. __________ is a method of scrambling data so that they cannot be read without first being decoded. An AIDS registry, for example, might want to use this specific method to protect patient identifiable information since AIDS data are considered extremely sensitive.
- Encryption
7. A benefit for healthcare professionals of using technology for patient education is
-To improve the compliance and documentation of education
8.Which of the following is not considered a Case-Finding method?
-Medication Lists 9.Population-based registry is gathering information from more than one facility within a geographic area such as a state or regiona. Developing policies for managing information security
-true 10.UMLS is of particular interest to the HIM professional because medical classifications such as ICD-9-CM, CPT, and the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) are among the items included -True
11.The data from an HIE are aggregated rather than patient specific and are not used primarily for patient care
-True
12.Not all registries and databases are covered under HIPAA if they do not bill for patient care services. ________registries would be an example of a registry that is not covered under HIPAA.
-Central