RHIT Exam Prep Domain 1 Practice Questions
Health Information Management
1. What are the two purposes of data sets in healthcare?
Answer: To identify data elements to be collected about each patient and to provide uniform data
definitions to aid standardization efforts across multiple hospitals.
2. Which resource should a HIT use when designing a data collection form for an acute-care hospital?
Answer: The Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS).
3. What is a critical early step in designing an electronic health record (EHR)?
Answer: Developing a data dictionary.
4. In long-term care, what data set is used to develop a resident's care plan?
Answer: UHDDS (Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set).
5. Which characteristic is NOT typical of common healthcare data sets like UHDDS and UACDS?
Answer: They provide a framework for data collection to which an individual facility can add data items.
Record Content and Quality
6. What ensures that data are not altered during transmission across a network or during storage?
Health Information Management
1. What are the two purposes of data sets in healthcare?
Answer: To identify data elements to be collected about each patient and to provide uniform data
definitions to aid standardization efforts across multiple hospitals.
2. Which resource should a HIT use when designing a data collection form for an acute-care hospital?
Answer: The Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS).
3. What is a critical early step in designing an electronic health record (EHR)?
Answer: Developing a data dictionary.
4. In long-term care, what data set is used to develop a resident's care plan?
Answer: UHDDS (Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set).
5. Which characteristic is NOT typical of common healthcare data sets like UHDDS and UACDS?
Answer: They provide a framework for data collection to which an individual facility can add data items.
Record Content and Quality
6. What ensures that data are not altered during transmission across a network or during storage?
