RHIA Exam Prep – Latest 2025/2026 Update | Study Guide & Test
Practice
Danny, an HIM analyst for Memorial Hospital, is conducting a qualitative analysis of a
discharged patient's chart. His goal in this process is: correct answers Determining if the
documentation includes all requirements set by cms, the state, and accrediting bodies.
In order to set the budget for next year, the hospital administrator tasked a business
analyst with determining the average charges and average length of stay for Medicaid
patients. The business analyst uses hospital claims data for this analysis and provides
the results to the administrator. What type of data are the claims data in this case?
correct answers Secondary data
The Western Hospital Corporation's HIM director wants to compare the time that each
of the hospitals in the corporation are spending on chart analysis and determine how
they are performing against the best practice standard. The HIM director generated the
following data for comparison. What is this comparison process called? correct answers
Benchmarking
Which of the following is the appropriate method for destroying electronic data? correct
answers Degaussing
A hospital employee destroyed a health record so that its contents-which would be
damaging to the employee-could not be used at trial. in legal terms, the employee's
action constitutes correct answers Spoliation
The HIM director at Community Hospital has noticed that history and physicals and
operative reports are not being transcribed and returned by the transcription service
within the negotiated timeframes. What should be her primary concern related to this
issue? correct answers That the Joint Commission will find that history and physicals
are not being uploaded to the EHR system within the required 24 hour timeframe
Lisa, an HIM analyst for Healthwise Hospital, is conducting a quantitative analysis of a
discharged patient's chart. Her goal in this process is: correct answers To identify
deficiencies in the chart early so they can be corrected
Which of the following would not be an appropriate duty for an HIM professional?
correct answers Documenting additions or deletions in a patient's record
The insured party's member identification number is an example of this type of data:
correct answers Financial data
A health data analyst has been asked to compile a report of the percentage of patients
who had a baseline partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test performed prior to receiving
heparin. What clinical reports in the health record would the health data analyst need to
, consult in order to prepare this report? correct answers Medication administration
record and clinical laboratory reports
The data that describe other data in order to facilitate data quality are found in the ?
correct answers Data dictionary
Bloodwork results from the laboratory information system, mammogram reports and
films from radiology information system, a listing of chemotherapy agents administered
to the patient from the pharmacy information system are all delivered into the patient's
EHR. These different information systems that feed information into the EHR are called
_____. correct answers Source Systems
Which of the following processes is an ancillary function of the health record? correct
answers Biomedical research
While the focus of inpatient data collection is on the principal diagnosis, the focus of
outpatient data collection is on the correct answers Reason for encounter
What document is a snapshot of a patient's status and includes everything from social
issues to disease processes as well as critical paths and clinical pathways that focus on
a specific disease process or pathway in a long-term care hospital(LTCH)? correct
answers Care plan
Name of element, definition, application in which the data element is found, locator key,
ownership, entity relationship, date first entered system, date terminated from system,
and system of origin are all examples of correct answers metadata
Which of the following represents dataflow for a hospital inpatient admission? correct
answers Registration>services performed> charges recorded> diagnostic and
procedure codes assigned
Which of the following is the goal of quantitative analysis performed by health
information management (HIM) professional? correct answers Identifying deficiencies
early so they can be corrected
To complete a comprehensive assessment and collect information for the minimum data
set for long-term care, the coordinator must use which of the following correct answers
Resident assessment instrument
How do healthcare providers use the administrative data they collect? correct answers
For regulatory, operational, and financial purposes
Data mapping is used to harmonize data sets or code sets. The code or data set from
which the map originates is the: correct answers source
Practice
Danny, an HIM analyst for Memorial Hospital, is conducting a qualitative analysis of a
discharged patient's chart. His goal in this process is: correct answers Determining if the
documentation includes all requirements set by cms, the state, and accrediting bodies.
In order to set the budget for next year, the hospital administrator tasked a business
analyst with determining the average charges and average length of stay for Medicaid
patients. The business analyst uses hospital claims data for this analysis and provides
the results to the administrator. What type of data are the claims data in this case?
correct answers Secondary data
The Western Hospital Corporation's HIM director wants to compare the time that each
of the hospitals in the corporation are spending on chart analysis and determine how
they are performing against the best practice standard. The HIM director generated the
following data for comparison. What is this comparison process called? correct answers
Benchmarking
Which of the following is the appropriate method for destroying electronic data? correct
answers Degaussing
A hospital employee destroyed a health record so that its contents-which would be
damaging to the employee-could not be used at trial. in legal terms, the employee's
action constitutes correct answers Spoliation
The HIM director at Community Hospital has noticed that history and physicals and
operative reports are not being transcribed and returned by the transcription service
within the negotiated timeframes. What should be her primary concern related to this
issue? correct answers That the Joint Commission will find that history and physicals
are not being uploaded to the EHR system within the required 24 hour timeframe
Lisa, an HIM analyst for Healthwise Hospital, is conducting a quantitative analysis of a
discharged patient's chart. Her goal in this process is: correct answers To identify
deficiencies in the chart early so they can be corrected
Which of the following would not be an appropriate duty for an HIM professional?
correct answers Documenting additions or deletions in a patient's record
The insured party's member identification number is an example of this type of data:
correct answers Financial data
A health data analyst has been asked to compile a report of the percentage of patients
who had a baseline partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test performed prior to receiving
heparin. What clinical reports in the health record would the health data analyst need to
, consult in order to prepare this report? correct answers Medication administration
record and clinical laboratory reports
The data that describe other data in order to facilitate data quality are found in the ?
correct answers Data dictionary
Bloodwork results from the laboratory information system, mammogram reports and
films from radiology information system, a listing of chemotherapy agents administered
to the patient from the pharmacy information system are all delivered into the patient's
EHR. These different information systems that feed information into the EHR are called
_____. correct answers Source Systems
Which of the following processes is an ancillary function of the health record? correct
answers Biomedical research
While the focus of inpatient data collection is on the principal diagnosis, the focus of
outpatient data collection is on the correct answers Reason for encounter
What document is a snapshot of a patient's status and includes everything from social
issues to disease processes as well as critical paths and clinical pathways that focus on
a specific disease process or pathway in a long-term care hospital(LTCH)? correct
answers Care plan
Name of element, definition, application in which the data element is found, locator key,
ownership, entity relationship, date first entered system, date terminated from system,
and system of origin are all examples of correct answers metadata
Which of the following represents dataflow for a hospital inpatient admission? correct
answers Registration>services performed> charges recorded> diagnostic and
procedure codes assigned
Which of the following is the goal of quantitative analysis performed by health
information management (HIM) professional? correct answers Identifying deficiencies
early so they can be corrected
To complete a comprehensive assessment and collect information for the minimum data
set for long-term care, the coordinator must use which of the following correct answers
Resident assessment instrument
How do healthcare providers use the administrative data they collect? correct answers
For regulatory, operational, and financial purposes
Data mapping is used to harmonize data sets or code sets. The code or data set from
which the map originates is the: correct answers source
