CAHIMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. COO(Chief Operating Officer) ANSWER handles day-to-day operations
2. CMIO ANSWER Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer ANSWER Liaison
between CIO and CMO
3. CMO ANSWER chief medical oflcer, usually a physician serving as a liaison between upper management and
the medical statt at a HCO. Responsible for clinical care, quality improvement, and sometimes graduate medical
education
4. CIO ANSWER Chief Information Oflcer ANSWER oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of
IT with business goals and objectives
5. Joint Commission accredits both ANSWER medicare and medicaid
6. Insurance paid for by govenment ANSWER Single payer
7. HOPD(Hospital Outpatient Department) ANSWER medicare parts
8. PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) ANSWER Choose your own specialist
A type of health plan that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to create a network of
participating providers. You pay less if you use providers that belong to the plan's network.
9. Bundles payments ANSWER a single funding amount to a healthcare provider specific to a
certain patient's treatment and recovery; episodes of care
10. URAC ANSWER An acronym for Utilization Review Accreditation Commission. One of the accrediting
bodies of health plans.;
11. American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) ANSWER a
professional association for health professionals involved in the health information management needed to
deliver quality health care to the public
12. IMIA ANSWER International Medical Interpreters Association
13. Both AMIA and IMIA place privacy in ANSWER the number one position on their lists of ethical
duties for health informatics professionals
14. Culture refers to ANSWER the beliefs and customs of a single group of society
15. diversity means ANSWER composed of ditterent elements or types
16. Internal diversity ANSWER what humans are born with and is out of their control, such as gender, race,
ethnicity, age, physical ability, and sexual orientation
17. External diversity ANSWER religion, education, marital status, and income
18. ethnocentrism ANSWER superiority
19. ethnorelativism ANSWER the opposite; all are equal though dissimilar
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20. High-context ANSWER nonverbal cues are improtant
21. low-context ANSWER words are more important(help desks)
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22. Strategic planning ANSWER long-term, assumption, alignment, upper management; need input from
all stake- holders
23. technical planning ANSWER short-term, detailed, lower management
24. IT strategic planning ANSWER how to best help the business goals of the organization
25. What best explains the need and purpose for having an IT governance
structure ANSWER It estabilshed a framework for the leadership and organizational structures, as well as
clarification of the roles and responsibilities at every level of the organization, to ensure that the IT strategic plan
provides maximum facilitation toward achieving the goals of its BUSINESS strategic plan
26. IT governing bodies ANSWER regulatory oversight, procurement, lower managers
27. Governance council ANSWER ASSESS alignment, initiate evaluation/approval PROPORSALS, LEAD
GOVERNANCE, business division heads, IT senior management
28. IT Executive steering committee ANSWER confirm alignment, approve resources,
investments, top man- agement
29. IT governance structure ANSWER should be driven by all stakeholders
30. MIPS need to submit data on four performance categories ANSWER Cost,
Quality, Improve- ment Activities, and Promoting Interoperability
31. ACOs ANSWER Accountable Care Organizations
Established by Attordable Care Act as a pilot payment models for Medicare
32. ACOs are charged with ANSWER reducing the cost of healthcare
33. IOM ANSWER Institute of Medicine; "Crossing the quality chasm"
34. "Crossing the quality chasm" has six principles ANSWER safe, ettective, patient-
centered, timely, eflcient and equitable
35. AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) ANSWER a federal agency
established to improve the quality, safety, eflciency, and ettectiveness of health care for Americans
36. AHRQ provides ANSWER evidence
37. AHRQ ANSWER works with HHS to produce annual health reports for current state
38. NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) ANSWER not for profit
organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on quality and performance of health care plans; accredits
HMO's
Quality key measures and PMCHs and ACOs
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39. Process measures ANSWER examine steps in providing care process
-adherence to professional standards or practice guidelines
-determine if they are suflcient; these improve before outcomes do
40. Outcome measures ANSWER data describing the results of
healthcare services impact of changes (views from the patients and other
stakeholders)
41. Balancing measures ANSWER see if the process works as a whole; looks at costs and the patient
42. Aims ANSWER what, how much, when
43. clinical decision support ANSWER provides clinicians, statt, patients or other individuals with
knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance
health and health care.
patient specific info with relevant PROTOCOLS
44. Disease management ANSWER method of reducing healthcare costs by providing integrated care
for chronic conditions
program coordinated with patient for them to provide significant portion of their own healthcare
45. Disease Registries ANSWER a centralized database for collection of data
about a disease patient population
46. Workarounds ANSWER occur when people work around the system to accomplish a task or goal when
the normal process or method isn't producing the desired result
47. Artifacts ANSWER objects used to communicate information about yourself to those around you
48. science of safety ANSWER procedures you follow to stay safe in the science
classroom the system is perfectly designed to deliver the results it gets
49. Swiss Cheese Model ANSWER systems approach to understanding errors. Declares humans are fallible
and errors are to be expected even in the best organization. The holes represent opportunities for the process to
fail
holes represent vulnerabilities
50. Clinicians have not fully accepted clinical decisions support systems (CDSS)
ANSWER due to myths and ditterent opinions
51. Quality Assurance (QA) ANSWER process to provide accurate, complete, consistent health care
documentation in a timely manner while making every reasonable ettort to resolve inconsistencies, inaccuracies, risk
1. COO(Chief Operating Officer) ANSWER handles day-to-day operations
2. CMIO ANSWER Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer ANSWER Liaison
between CIO and CMO
3. CMO ANSWER chief medical oflcer, usually a physician serving as a liaison between upper management and
the medical statt at a HCO. Responsible for clinical care, quality improvement, and sometimes graduate medical
education
4. CIO ANSWER Chief Information Oflcer ANSWER oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of
IT with business goals and objectives
5. Joint Commission accredits both ANSWER medicare and medicaid
6. Insurance paid for by govenment ANSWER Single payer
7. HOPD(Hospital Outpatient Department) ANSWER medicare parts
8. PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) ANSWER Choose your own specialist
A type of health plan that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to create a network of
participating providers. You pay less if you use providers that belong to the plan's network.
9. Bundles payments ANSWER a single funding amount to a healthcare provider specific to a
certain patient's treatment and recovery; episodes of care
10. URAC ANSWER An acronym for Utilization Review Accreditation Commission. One of the accrediting
bodies of health plans.;
11. American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) ANSWER a
professional association for health professionals involved in the health information management needed to
deliver quality health care to the public
12. IMIA ANSWER International Medical Interpreters Association
13. Both AMIA and IMIA place privacy in ANSWER the number one position on their lists of ethical
duties for health informatics professionals
14. Culture refers to ANSWER the beliefs and customs of a single group of society
15. diversity means ANSWER composed of ditterent elements or types
16. Internal diversity ANSWER what humans are born with and is out of their control, such as gender, race,
ethnicity, age, physical ability, and sexual orientation
17. External diversity ANSWER religion, education, marital status, and income
18. ethnocentrism ANSWER superiority
19. ethnorelativism ANSWER the opposite; all are equal though dissimilar
, CAHIMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
20. High-context ANSWER nonverbal cues are improtant
21. low-context ANSWER words are more important(help desks)
, CAHIMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
22. Strategic planning ANSWER long-term, assumption, alignment, upper management; need input from
all stake- holders
23. technical planning ANSWER short-term, detailed, lower management
24. IT strategic planning ANSWER how to best help the business goals of the organization
25. What best explains the need and purpose for having an IT governance
structure ANSWER It estabilshed a framework for the leadership and organizational structures, as well as
clarification of the roles and responsibilities at every level of the organization, to ensure that the IT strategic plan
provides maximum facilitation toward achieving the goals of its BUSINESS strategic plan
26. IT governing bodies ANSWER regulatory oversight, procurement, lower managers
27. Governance council ANSWER ASSESS alignment, initiate evaluation/approval PROPORSALS, LEAD
GOVERNANCE, business division heads, IT senior management
28. IT Executive steering committee ANSWER confirm alignment, approve resources,
investments, top man- agement
29. IT governance structure ANSWER should be driven by all stakeholders
30. MIPS need to submit data on four performance categories ANSWER Cost,
Quality, Improve- ment Activities, and Promoting Interoperability
31. ACOs ANSWER Accountable Care Organizations
Established by Attordable Care Act as a pilot payment models for Medicare
32. ACOs are charged with ANSWER reducing the cost of healthcare
33. IOM ANSWER Institute of Medicine; "Crossing the quality chasm"
34. "Crossing the quality chasm" has six principles ANSWER safe, ettective, patient-
centered, timely, eflcient and equitable
35. AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) ANSWER a federal agency
established to improve the quality, safety, eflciency, and ettectiveness of health care for Americans
36. AHRQ provides ANSWER evidence
37. AHRQ ANSWER works with HHS to produce annual health reports for current state
38. NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) ANSWER not for profit
organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on quality and performance of health care plans; accredits
HMO's
Quality key measures and PMCHs and ACOs
, CAHIMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
39. Process measures ANSWER examine steps in providing care process
-adherence to professional standards or practice guidelines
-determine if they are suflcient; these improve before outcomes do
40. Outcome measures ANSWER data describing the results of
healthcare services impact of changes (views from the patients and other
stakeholders)
41. Balancing measures ANSWER see if the process works as a whole; looks at costs and the patient
42. Aims ANSWER what, how much, when
43. clinical decision support ANSWER provides clinicians, statt, patients or other individuals with
knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance
health and health care.
patient specific info with relevant PROTOCOLS
44. Disease management ANSWER method of reducing healthcare costs by providing integrated care
for chronic conditions
program coordinated with patient for them to provide significant portion of their own healthcare
45. Disease Registries ANSWER a centralized database for collection of data
about a disease patient population
46. Workarounds ANSWER occur when people work around the system to accomplish a task or goal when
the normal process or method isn't producing the desired result
47. Artifacts ANSWER objects used to communicate information about yourself to those around you
48. science of safety ANSWER procedures you follow to stay safe in the science
classroom the system is perfectly designed to deliver the results it gets
49. Swiss Cheese Model ANSWER systems approach to understanding errors. Declares humans are fallible
and errors are to be expected even in the best organization. The holes represent opportunities for the process to
fail
holes represent vulnerabilities
50. Clinicians have not fully accepted clinical decisions support systems (CDSS)
ANSWER due to myths and ditterent opinions
51. Quality Assurance (QA) ANSWER process to provide accurate, complete, consistent health care
documentation in a timely manner while making every reasonable ettort to resolve inconsistencies, inaccuracies, risk
