HIM Test Chpts 1-4 Questions with
complete solution 2025/2026
Physician's order - correct answer ✔verbal or written direction regarding patient's care. Ex: MRI script,
therapy, medication
HIM - correct answer ✔Health Information Management - administration of health information,
including collection, storage, retrieval, securing/protecting, and reporting of that information. May assist
in the development and implementation of EHRs, oversee maintenance of those databases, provide
support services such as patient registration, retrieve data for reporting and continuing patient care, and
participate in billing process.
AHIMA - correct answer ✔American Health Information Management Association - an association that
supports HIM by promoting high-quality information standards through a variety of activities, including
continuing education, professional development and educational publications and legislative and
regulatory advocacy.
Alphabet Soup - correct answer ✔R - Registered, individuals have complied w/ the standards of
registering organization
C - Certified;
F - Fellow; demonstrated a long-term contribution to his or her discipline or a specific high level of
competence
L - License; denotes compliance w/ state regulations
Job tasks and titles in HIM - correct answer ✔Medical Coder - assigns, collects and reports codes
representing clinical data
Release of information specialist - specializes in privacy and security aspects of HIM practice
Data Analyst - analyzes health care data
Clinical Documentation Improvement Professional - Supports collection of clinical documentation
, Health Unit Coordinator - Transcribes physician's orders, prepares and complies records during patient
hospitalization
Registered Health Information Technician/Administrator - provides administrative support targeting the
collection, retention, and reporting of health information
Admission - correct answer ✔the process that occurs when a patient is registered for evaluation or
treatment by provider on the order of the physician.
Inpatient - correct answer ✔Patient who's admitted by a physician's order with intention of staying
overnight in the hospital and being discharged on a different day.
Exs: inpatient rehab, inpatient psychological facility, long term rehab, inpatient hospice.
Outpatient - correct answer ✔Patient's health services are to be delivered within 1 calendar day or 24
hr period
Exs: doctor's office, imaging center, same day sx, colonoscopies, eye sx, sleep studies, observation
status, ambulatory care, chemo or dialysis
Palliative Care - correct answer ✔make the patient comfortable by easing his or her pain and other
discomforts.
LTC - correct answer ✔Long term care treats a wide variety of patients who need more care than they
would be able to get at home but who do not need the intensity of care provided by and acute care
facility. ALOS is 30 days
Rehab facility - correct answer ✔treats patients who have suffered a debilitating illness or trauma or
recovering from a certain type of sx
Continuity of care - correct answer ✔refers to communication among all the patient's care providers in
a facility from admission to discharge. Communication should be as smooth as possible. Also refers to
the patient's experience from one facility to another, either throughout an illness or the life of the
patient.
complete solution 2025/2026
Physician's order - correct answer ✔verbal or written direction regarding patient's care. Ex: MRI script,
therapy, medication
HIM - correct answer ✔Health Information Management - administration of health information,
including collection, storage, retrieval, securing/protecting, and reporting of that information. May assist
in the development and implementation of EHRs, oversee maintenance of those databases, provide
support services such as patient registration, retrieve data for reporting and continuing patient care, and
participate in billing process.
AHIMA - correct answer ✔American Health Information Management Association - an association that
supports HIM by promoting high-quality information standards through a variety of activities, including
continuing education, professional development and educational publications and legislative and
regulatory advocacy.
Alphabet Soup - correct answer ✔R - Registered, individuals have complied w/ the standards of
registering organization
C - Certified;
F - Fellow; demonstrated a long-term contribution to his or her discipline or a specific high level of
competence
L - License; denotes compliance w/ state regulations
Job tasks and titles in HIM - correct answer ✔Medical Coder - assigns, collects and reports codes
representing clinical data
Release of information specialist - specializes in privacy and security aspects of HIM practice
Data Analyst - analyzes health care data
Clinical Documentation Improvement Professional - Supports collection of clinical documentation
, Health Unit Coordinator - Transcribes physician's orders, prepares and complies records during patient
hospitalization
Registered Health Information Technician/Administrator - provides administrative support targeting the
collection, retention, and reporting of health information
Admission - correct answer ✔the process that occurs when a patient is registered for evaluation or
treatment by provider on the order of the physician.
Inpatient - correct answer ✔Patient who's admitted by a physician's order with intention of staying
overnight in the hospital and being discharged on a different day.
Exs: inpatient rehab, inpatient psychological facility, long term rehab, inpatient hospice.
Outpatient - correct answer ✔Patient's health services are to be delivered within 1 calendar day or 24
hr period
Exs: doctor's office, imaging center, same day sx, colonoscopies, eye sx, sleep studies, observation
status, ambulatory care, chemo or dialysis
Palliative Care - correct answer ✔make the patient comfortable by easing his or her pain and other
discomforts.
LTC - correct answer ✔Long term care treats a wide variety of patients who need more care than they
would be able to get at home but who do not need the intensity of care provided by and acute care
facility. ALOS is 30 days
Rehab facility - correct answer ✔treats patients who have suffered a debilitating illness or trauma or
recovering from a certain type of sx
Continuity of care - correct answer ✔refers to communication among all the patient's care providers in
a facility from admission to discharge. Communication should be as smooth as possible. Also refers to
the patient's experience from one facility to another, either throughout an illness or the life of the
patient.
