LCHI 466 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed
Consumer Empowerment - Answers the investment of authority in those who purchase goods and
services
Health Breach Notification Rule - Answers regulation that requires commercial PHR vendors to notify
individuals whose information was breached and file a report with the FTC
HL7 PHR System Functional Model - Answers identifies the features and functions in a system necessary
to create and manage an effective PHR
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) - Answers Government agency that enforces the HIPAA Privacy Act.
Patient Engagement - Answers The combination of patient activation with interventions designed to
promote positive patient behavior.
Personal Health Record (PHR) - Answers An electronic or paper health record maintained and updated
by an individual for himself or herself; a tool that individuals can use to collect, track, and share past and
current information about their health or the health of someone in their care.
PHR Privacy Notice - Answers Another effort to explain PHRs to consumers and address their concerns
Standalone - Answers independent of any sponsor
Tethered - Answers connected to sponsor (each of which may supply data to or use data from a PHR in
different ways)
Transparency - Answers In healthcare, the degree to which individual patients are made aware of how
their personal health information is or has been dispersed to secondary medical databases.
Value-Driven Healthcare - Answers a focus of the federal government on ways to achieve better quality
outcomes per dollar spent on healthcare, such as providing incentives for use of EHR, affording
consumers transparency, and introducing risk of sharing and greater accountability among providers for
continuity of care, along with other health reform measures
Clinical Messaging - Answers the function of electronically delivering data and automating the workflow
around the management of clinical data
Code 39 Bar Code Standard - Answers An alphanumeric, self-checking, variable-length code that has
been standardized by the Health Industry Bar Code Council (HIBCC); also called "linear bar code".
Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) - Answers A storage solution based on digital
scanning technology in which source documents are scanned to create digital images of the documents
that can be stored electronically on optical disks.
Electronic Signature Authentication - Answers a system that utilizes a user ID and password to indicate
review and approval of the content of a document
, Enterprise Content, Collaboration, and Communication Management (EC3M) - Answers Systems that aid
in the management of electronic content as well as the sharing and transmission of such content,
especially among members of a team who may need to dynamically interact with documents as they are
being created.
Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) - Answers Convergence of enterprise-wide content
management (ECM) and electronic record management (ERM) that provides functionality for managing
all content across its life cycle according to legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) - Answers An index that provides access to multiple repositories
of information from overlapping patient populations that are maintained in separate systems and
databases
Hybrid Record - Answers A system with functional components that (1) include both paper and
electronic documents and (2) use both manual and electronic processes.
Information as a Service - Answers
Intelligent Character Recognition - Answers An advanced form of OCR in which the system learns to
recognize a specific person's handwriting and, over time, increases its accuracy.
Intelligent Word Recognition - Answers newest technology that recognizes unconstrained handwritten
words
Knowledge Management System - Answers A management strategy that promotes an integrated and
collaborative approach to the process of information asset creation, capture, organization, access, and
use.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Answers A method of encoding text from analog paper into bit-
mapped images and translating the images into a form that is computer readable
Positive Patient Identification - Answers A method of matching a patient to their information, such as
requiring the use of government-issued photo identification.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - Answers An automatic recognition technology that uses a device
attached to an object to transmit data to a receiver and does not require direct contact
Real-Time Location System (RTLS) - Answers A system used to provide immediate or real-time tracking
and management of medical equipment, staff and patients within all types of patient care
environments.
Scan on Demand - Answers Cost effective alternative to physical file delivery.
Enables records to be available anytime, anywhere via secure web access.
Creation of a central environment where numerous colleagues can rapidly retrieve records.
Consumer Empowerment - Answers the investment of authority in those who purchase goods and
services
Health Breach Notification Rule - Answers regulation that requires commercial PHR vendors to notify
individuals whose information was breached and file a report with the FTC
HL7 PHR System Functional Model - Answers identifies the features and functions in a system necessary
to create and manage an effective PHR
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) - Answers Government agency that enforces the HIPAA Privacy Act.
Patient Engagement - Answers The combination of patient activation with interventions designed to
promote positive patient behavior.
Personal Health Record (PHR) - Answers An electronic or paper health record maintained and updated
by an individual for himself or herself; a tool that individuals can use to collect, track, and share past and
current information about their health or the health of someone in their care.
PHR Privacy Notice - Answers Another effort to explain PHRs to consumers and address their concerns
Standalone - Answers independent of any sponsor
Tethered - Answers connected to sponsor (each of which may supply data to or use data from a PHR in
different ways)
Transparency - Answers In healthcare, the degree to which individual patients are made aware of how
their personal health information is or has been dispersed to secondary medical databases.
Value-Driven Healthcare - Answers a focus of the federal government on ways to achieve better quality
outcomes per dollar spent on healthcare, such as providing incentives for use of EHR, affording
consumers transparency, and introducing risk of sharing and greater accountability among providers for
continuity of care, along with other health reform measures
Clinical Messaging - Answers the function of electronically delivering data and automating the workflow
around the management of clinical data
Code 39 Bar Code Standard - Answers An alphanumeric, self-checking, variable-length code that has
been standardized by the Health Industry Bar Code Council (HIBCC); also called "linear bar code".
Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) - Answers A storage solution based on digital
scanning technology in which source documents are scanned to create digital images of the documents
that can be stored electronically on optical disks.
Electronic Signature Authentication - Answers a system that utilizes a user ID and password to indicate
review and approval of the content of a document
, Enterprise Content, Collaboration, and Communication Management (EC3M) - Answers Systems that aid
in the management of electronic content as well as the sharing and transmission of such content,
especially among members of a team who may need to dynamically interact with documents as they are
being created.
Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) - Answers Convergence of enterprise-wide content
management (ECM) and electronic record management (ERM) that provides functionality for managing
all content across its life cycle according to legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) - Answers An index that provides access to multiple repositories
of information from overlapping patient populations that are maintained in separate systems and
databases
Hybrid Record - Answers A system with functional components that (1) include both paper and
electronic documents and (2) use both manual and electronic processes.
Information as a Service - Answers
Intelligent Character Recognition - Answers An advanced form of OCR in which the system learns to
recognize a specific person's handwriting and, over time, increases its accuracy.
Intelligent Word Recognition - Answers newest technology that recognizes unconstrained handwritten
words
Knowledge Management System - Answers A management strategy that promotes an integrated and
collaborative approach to the process of information asset creation, capture, organization, access, and
use.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Answers A method of encoding text from analog paper into bit-
mapped images and translating the images into a form that is computer readable
Positive Patient Identification - Answers A method of matching a patient to their information, such as
requiring the use of government-issued photo identification.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - Answers An automatic recognition technology that uses a device
attached to an object to transmit data to a receiver and does not require direct contact
Real-Time Location System (RTLS) - Answers A system used to provide immediate or real-time tracking
and management of medical equipment, staff and patients within all types of patient care
environments.
Scan on Demand - Answers Cost effective alternative to physical file delivery.
Enables records to be available anytime, anywhere via secure web access.
Creation of a central environment where numerous colleagues can rapidly retrieve records.
