A benefit for healthcare professionals of using technology for patient education is - Answers To
improve the compliance and documentation of education
Individuals having the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information is known
as - Answers Health literacy
The gap that exists between the consumers who have Internet access to information and those
who do not is known as - Answers Digital divide
Disease registries are collections of secondary data related to patients with a specific ________ -
Answers Diagnosis, condition, or procedure
When persons living with a chronic disease use the Internet for blogging about their health
challenges or participating in online discussion forums, this is known as - Answers Peer-to-peer
support
Telehealth is provided for - Answers Homebound patients or those with limited access to
transportation, rural populations that lack access to primary care, and those recently discharged
from hospitals
Health literacy skills include the ability to - Answers all of these are correct
Linda is an occupational therapist who works for a home health agency based in Pennsylvania,
very near the Ohio border. She is assigned to monitor the home telehealth patients for one week
to cover for another therapist who is on vacation. Which of the following is correct? - Answers
Linda must be licensed to practice occupational therapy in both Pennsylvania and Ohio if
telehealth patients are located in both states
A unit of measure that reflects the services received by one inpatient during a 24-hour period is
called (IPSD) which is an abbreviation for - Answers Inpatient Service Day
Technical security under HIPAA involves issues such as whether sensitive data need to be
protected. __________ is a method of scrambling data so that they cannot be read without first
being decoded. An AIDS registry, for example, might want to use this specific method to protect
patient identifiable information since AIDS data are considered extremely sensitive. - Answers
Encryption
Which of the following is not considered a Case-Finding method? - Answers Medication Lists
(T/F) Population-based registry is gathering information from more than one facility within a
geographic area such as a state or region - Answers True
(T/F) UMLS is of particular interest to the HIM professional because medical classifications
such as ICD-9-CM, CPT, and the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) are