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MHA 705 | Health Data Standards, Coding & Interoperability | 55 Questions on HL7, SNOMED CT, LOINC, Terminology Mapping | Louisiana State University Shreveport

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This document includes a complete and exam-verified set of 55 multiple-choice questions with correct answers for MHA 705 – Healthcare Informatics, focusing on Chapter 4: Data Standards and Terminologies, from the 2025/2026 academic year at Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS) . It provides a comprehensive overview of data standardization in health informatics, emphasizing how consistent data formatting, coding, and exchange support system interoperability and clinical accuracy. Core topics covered: – Importance of standardized health terminology in EHRs and across clinical systems – In-depth understanding of leading systems like SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD, CPT, DRG, and HCPCS – Overview of HL7 standards and their role in enabling health information exchange – Concepts of semantic interoperability, coding system mapping, and data granularity – Functions of data dictionaries and data mapping to align disparate system vocabularies – Challenges in maintaining consistency and precision in patient record documentation – How data standards support decision support systems, quality metrics, and care coordination – Examples of terminology implementation in lab results, medication orders, and billing systems – Evaluation of UMLS, NDC, RVS, and data standard organizations like Regenstrief Institute and AHIMA This document is essential for understanding the technical and strategic importance of uniform language and classification systems in digital health environments. Best suited for: – Graduate students in Healthcare Informatics, Health Information Management, Data Science in Health, or Health IT – Professionals engaged in clinical data exchange, EHR development, coding compliance, or analytics – Students preparing for MHA 705 at LSUS, or equivalent courses on health data standardization and interoperability Keywords: health data standards, SNOMED CT, LOINC, HL7, ICD coding, CPT codes, DRG, HCPCS, semantic interoperability, terminology mapping, data granularity, data dictionaries, UMLS, NDC, coding systems, standardized health terminology, decision support systems, healthcare interoperability, AHIMA, Regenstrief Institute

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_______________ is the science of information management. - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔Informatics


Informatics can be summarized by the following statement:

____________________________________________________________

_________________ (Friedman 2009, 169). - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"A person

working in partnership with an information resource is 'better' than a person

unassisted"

Healthcare informatics is

____________________________________________________________

__________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the field of information science concerned

,with managing all aspects of health data and information through the

application of computers and computer technologies

The Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan defined

____________________________________________________________

___________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a number of goals, objectives, and

strategies that bring together all federal efforts in health IT in a coordinated

fashion

The purpose of the Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan

is to

____________________________________________________________

____________________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔guide the advancement of

health IT throughout the federal government through 2012

Today's task for informatics is to

____________________________________________________________

_. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔design, develop, and implement computer information

systems that enable healthcare organizations to accomplish visions for

providing the highest-quality care in the most effective way

Applied healthcare informatics emphasizes the use of

____________________________________________________________

,________________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔computer-based applications in

delivering and documenting healthcare services (AMIA 2005)

__________________________________ is the application of information

technology to functions and activities that are closely aligned with the

domains of practice associated with the health information management

(HIM) profession. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Applied healthcare informatics


The clinical data repository is

________________________________________________. - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔a component of the EHR that captures data


The automated files making up the EHR system's component information

systems and technologies consist of __________________, and the data

in the files consist of ____________________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔different

data types; different data formats

Data formats can be __________________________________. - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔structured or unstructured


___________________________ is discrete because its fields are

predefined and limited. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Structured data




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, Examples of discrete data are

________________________________________________________ - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔data elements in a patient's automated laboratory order,

result, or demographic or financial information system that are coded and

alphanumeric.

Free-text data, as opposed to discrete, structured data, are generated by

_____________________________, and their fields are not predefined

and limited. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔word processors


The format of the data contained in a patient's transcribed radiology or

pathology result, history and physical (H&P), or clinical note system using

word processing technology is ___________________. - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔unstructured


Data embedded in unstructured text

____________________________________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔are not

easily retrieved by the search engine

Examples of diagnostic image data are

_______________________________________________. - 🧠 ANSWER

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