WGU C810 FOUNDATIONS IN HEALTHCARE
DATA MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<BRAND NEW VERSION>
1. A hospital's chief executive officer (CEO) notices a spike in complaints
about a certain unit and wants to know the average number of patients
admitted to that unit in order to monitor staff need. Where should the CEO
look for this data? - ANSWER ✓ Daily census report
2. When an entry is made to a disease registry, an automatic format check
ensures the data field for "Present on Admission" (POA) is
completed.Which principle of data stewardship is this an example of? -
ANSWER ✓ Establishing controls
3. A health information management (HIM) director is writing a data
dictionary for a new disease registry.For which area is this HIM director
being a data steward? - ANSWER ✓ Data definition
4. A report is needed from a disease registry, but patients' names must be de-
identified.Which category of key principles and practices applies to this
scenario? - ANSWER ✓ Responsibility of health data steward
5. A patient is being seen by a physician. The patient describes the reason for
the visit and the history of present illness in detail. The physician records
notes electronically at the point of care. Which technology supports point-of-
, service documentation for this visit? - ANSWER ✓ Electronic health record
(EHR)
6. What is the best definition of a care path? - ANSWER ✓ Protocol for the
process of care
7. What are the standards related to archiving images? - ANSWER ✓ Digital
Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
8. How often are national morbidity data reported? - ANSWER ✓ Weekly
9. Which reimbursement methodology is typically used for government-
sponsored healthcare programs such as Medicare? - ANSWER ✓
Prospective payment system (PPS)
10.When patients have more than one insurance policy, which process ensures
that there is no duplication of benefits paid? - ANSWER ✓ Coordination of
benefits
11.Which exchange methodology uses email pushes? - ANSWER ✓ DIRECT
exchange
12.Which HIE architecture has all data stored in a shared data repository? -
ANSWER ✓ Centralized
13.In which healthcare setting does CMS require specific documentation by the
attending physician and an update to the patient's plan of care? - ANSWER
✓ Home healthcare
14.For which healthcare setting is the patient's history and physical exam a
required part of the health record? - ANSWER ✓ Acute care and behavioral
health
15.A report contains evidence of a review of a patient's record, the examination
of the patient, pertinent findings, and recommendations.
16.In which type of report would this information be found? - ANSWER ✓
Consultation
,17.Why is a patient's history and physical (H and P) used in an inpatient
hospitalization? - ANSWER ✓ To document surgical findings
18.Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) - ANSWER ✓ a program
initiated by the National Library of Medicine to build an intelligent,
automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and
expressions and their interrelationships; includes concepts and terms from
many different source vocabularies.
19.Clinical Trials Database 4 Study Phases - ANSWER ✓ Phase I studies—
Research the safety of the treatment in a small group of people
Phase II studies—Determine the treatment's effectiveness and further
investigate safety
Phase III studies—Look at effectiveness and side effects and make
comparisons to other available treatments in larger populations
Phase IV studies—Look at the treatment after it has entered the market
20.Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) - ANSWER ✓ A set of numbers used in a
trauma registry to indicate the nature and severity of injuries by body
system.
21.Injury Severity Score (ISS) - ANSWER ✓ An overall severity measurement
maintained in the trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury
scores for the three most severe injuries of each patient
22.Accession Number - ANSWER ✓ A number assigned to each case as it is
entered in a cancer registry
23.Regarding continuity of care, which documentation are ambulatory care
providers more likely than acute care providers to rely upon? - ANSWER ✓
Problem list
24.In addition to the typical management processes of planning, organizing, and
directing, what is included in the development of a governance program? -
ANSWER ✓ Controlling
, 25.Which data item would be recorded in an ER record but probably not in an
acute care record? - ANSWER ✓ Time and means of arrival
Correct
26.Constitutional Law - ANSWER ✓ laws outlined in federal and state
Constitutions
27.common law - ANSWER ✓ created by courts that resolve disputes
28.statutory law - ANSWER ✓ written law established by federal and state
legislatures
29.administrative law - ANSWER ✓ branch of law that controls the
government agency
30.malfeasance - ANSWER ✓ execution of unlawful or improper act
31.misfeasance - ANSWER ✓ improper act that results in injury
32.nonfeasance - ANSWER ✓ failure to act as a prudent person would in
similar circumstances
33.Degrees of Negligence - ANSWER ✓ ordinary, gross, criminal
34.Privacy Act of 1974 - ANSWER ✓ addresses the right to privacy and was
written to give individuals some control over information collected on them
by the federal government
35.consent - ANSWER ✓ one's permission or agreement to an action
36.general consent - ANSWER ✓ permit healthcare providers to perform
overall medical care
37.informed consent - ANSWER ✓ ensure patient has a basic understanding of
their diagnosis, the nature of treatment, and the individuals who are
rendering treatment
DATA MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<BRAND NEW VERSION>
1. A hospital's chief executive officer (CEO) notices a spike in complaints
about a certain unit and wants to know the average number of patients
admitted to that unit in order to monitor staff need. Where should the CEO
look for this data? - ANSWER ✓ Daily census report
2. When an entry is made to a disease registry, an automatic format check
ensures the data field for "Present on Admission" (POA) is
completed.Which principle of data stewardship is this an example of? -
ANSWER ✓ Establishing controls
3. A health information management (HIM) director is writing a data
dictionary for a new disease registry.For which area is this HIM director
being a data steward? - ANSWER ✓ Data definition
4. A report is needed from a disease registry, but patients' names must be de-
identified.Which category of key principles and practices applies to this
scenario? - ANSWER ✓ Responsibility of health data steward
5. A patient is being seen by a physician. The patient describes the reason for
the visit and the history of present illness in detail. The physician records
notes electronically at the point of care. Which technology supports point-of-
, service documentation for this visit? - ANSWER ✓ Electronic health record
(EHR)
6. What is the best definition of a care path? - ANSWER ✓ Protocol for the
process of care
7. What are the standards related to archiving images? - ANSWER ✓ Digital
Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
8. How often are national morbidity data reported? - ANSWER ✓ Weekly
9. Which reimbursement methodology is typically used for government-
sponsored healthcare programs such as Medicare? - ANSWER ✓
Prospective payment system (PPS)
10.When patients have more than one insurance policy, which process ensures
that there is no duplication of benefits paid? - ANSWER ✓ Coordination of
benefits
11.Which exchange methodology uses email pushes? - ANSWER ✓ DIRECT
exchange
12.Which HIE architecture has all data stored in a shared data repository? -
ANSWER ✓ Centralized
13.In which healthcare setting does CMS require specific documentation by the
attending physician and an update to the patient's plan of care? - ANSWER
✓ Home healthcare
14.For which healthcare setting is the patient's history and physical exam a
required part of the health record? - ANSWER ✓ Acute care and behavioral
health
15.A report contains evidence of a review of a patient's record, the examination
of the patient, pertinent findings, and recommendations.
16.In which type of report would this information be found? - ANSWER ✓
Consultation
,17.Why is a patient's history and physical (H and P) used in an inpatient
hospitalization? - ANSWER ✓ To document surgical findings
18.Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) - ANSWER ✓ a program
initiated by the National Library of Medicine to build an intelligent,
automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and
expressions and their interrelationships; includes concepts and terms from
many different source vocabularies.
19.Clinical Trials Database 4 Study Phases - ANSWER ✓ Phase I studies—
Research the safety of the treatment in a small group of people
Phase II studies—Determine the treatment's effectiveness and further
investigate safety
Phase III studies—Look at effectiveness and side effects and make
comparisons to other available treatments in larger populations
Phase IV studies—Look at the treatment after it has entered the market
20.Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) - ANSWER ✓ A set of numbers used in a
trauma registry to indicate the nature and severity of injuries by body
system.
21.Injury Severity Score (ISS) - ANSWER ✓ An overall severity measurement
maintained in the trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury
scores for the three most severe injuries of each patient
22.Accession Number - ANSWER ✓ A number assigned to each case as it is
entered in a cancer registry
23.Regarding continuity of care, which documentation are ambulatory care
providers more likely than acute care providers to rely upon? - ANSWER ✓
Problem list
24.In addition to the typical management processes of planning, organizing, and
directing, what is included in the development of a governance program? -
ANSWER ✓ Controlling
, 25.Which data item would be recorded in an ER record but probably not in an
acute care record? - ANSWER ✓ Time and means of arrival
Correct
26.Constitutional Law - ANSWER ✓ laws outlined in federal and state
Constitutions
27.common law - ANSWER ✓ created by courts that resolve disputes
28.statutory law - ANSWER ✓ written law established by federal and state
legislatures
29.administrative law - ANSWER ✓ branch of law that controls the
government agency
30.malfeasance - ANSWER ✓ execution of unlawful or improper act
31.misfeasance - ANSWER ✓ improper act that results in injury
32.nonfeasance - ANSWER ✓ failure to act as a prudent person would in
similar circumstances
33.Degrees of Negligence - ANSWER ✓ ordinary, gross, criminal
34.Privacy Act of 1974 - ANSWER ✓ addresses the right to privacy and was
written to give individuals some control over information collected on them
by the federal government
35.consent - ANSWER ✓ one's permission or agreement to an action
36.general consent - ANSWER ✓ permit healthcare providers to perform
overall medical care
37.informed consent - ANSWER ✓ ensure patient has a basic understanding of
their diagnosis, the nature of treatment, and the individuals who are
rendering treatment
