RHIT Exam Questions with
Revised Answers
Which of the following situations violate a patient's privacy? - Answer-The hospital
provides patient names and addresses to a pharmaceutical company to be used in a
mass mailing of free drug samples.
State law says that the hospital must keep a record of disclosures for 10 years. HIPAA
says 6 years. What should the hospital do to comply with the conflicting laws? - Answer-
Keep it the 10 years required by the state because it is stricter than HIPAA.
Your transcription system is set up to back up your hard drive every 5 minutes. The
backup is on the hard drive of another computer. This computer is located in the room
next door to the primary computer. What should be done to improve the backup
process? - Answer-Move backup computer to an office 100 miles away.
Today is January 10, 2008. Barbara has received a written authorization from an
attorney for records on John Marshall. The dates of service requested by the
authorization are the admission of January 2, 2008, through January 8, 2008. The
authorization is dated January 3, 2008. Which of the following is the appropriate
response? - Answer-Return the authorization and request one dated after January 8,
2008.
Which of the following statements demonstrates a violation of protected health
information? - Answer-"Mary, at work yesterday I saw that Susan had a hysterectomy."
Your facility had a hacker break in and data was altered in your facility's electronic
information. What is the best way to ensure someone from the outside cannot do this
again? - Answer-firewall
You are walking around the facility to identify any privacy and security issues. You walk
onto the 6W nursing unit and stand in a public area to look for possible violations. From
where you are standing, you see that anyone can watch the nurse entering confidential
patient information. You make a note of this. What are you doing? - Answer-conducting
a risk assessment
If HIPAA and state law conflicts, which prevails: - Answer-whichever is more protective
of the patient's privacy
The term"deidentified" indicates - Answer-all of the HIPAA specified patient identifiers
have been removed.
, Which of the following causes a privacy concern? - Answer-Bob Jones viewed a chart of
another patient with the last name of Jones.
If there are 150,000 medical records and the Health Information Department receives
3,545 requests for records in a week, what percentage of the records are requested
weekly? - Answer-2.4%
A small portion of the form you are using for a research study is reproduced below. This
is an example of
Male 1
Female 2 - Answer-nominal data
The ability to obtain the same results from different studies using different
methodologies and different populations is - Answer-reliability
The inpatient census at midnight is 67. Two patients were admitted in the morning; 1
died two hours later; the second patient was transferred to another facility that same
afternoon. The inpatient service days for that day will be - Answer-69
A patient admitted to the hospital on January 24 and discharged on February 9 has a
length of stay of - Answer-16 days
Live Births 225
Intermediate and late fetal deaths 5
Early fetal deaths 4
Newborn discharges 235 - Answer-to compute the fetal death rate at All Women's
Hospital for March. 2.2%
William Rumple was pronounced dead on arrival (DOA). The hospital pathologist
performed an autopsy on Mr. Rumple's body. This statistical event would be counted in
the - Answer-hospital autopsy rate
The best form/graph for demonstrating trends over time would be - Answer-line graph
A bar graph which displays continuous data and the columns are placed directly next to
each other is: - Answer-histogram, which is commonly used to display continuous data
Twelve new cases of a certain disease occurred during the month of August. If 4,000
persons were at risk during August, then the - Answer-incidence was 3 per 1,000
persons
You have been conducting productivity studies on your coders and find that 20% of their
time is devoted to querying physicians about missing or unclear diagnoses. Assuming
your coders work a 7-hour day, how many minutes do they spend per day querying
physicians? - Answer-84 (7*20%=1.4hr convert to minutes=84)
Revised Answers
Which of the following situations violate a patient's privacy? - Answer-The hospital
provides patient names and addresses to a pharmaceutical company to be used in a
mass mailing of free drug samples.
State law says that the hospital must keep a record of disclosures for 10 years. HIPAA
says 6 years. What should the hospital do to comply with the conflicting laws? - Answer-
Keep it the 10 years required by the state because it is stricter than HIPAA.
Your transcription system is set up to back up your hard drive every 5 minutes. The
backup is on the hard drive of another computer. This computer is located in the room
next door to the primary computer. What should be done to improve the backup
process? - Answer-Move backup computer to an office 100 miles away.
Today is January 10, 2008. Barbara has received a written authorization from an
attorney for records on John Marshall. The dates of service requested by the
authorization are the admission of January 2, 2008, through January 8, 2008. The
authorization is dated January 3, 2008. Which of the following is the appropriate
response? - Answer-Return the authorization and request one dated after January 8,
2008.
Which of the following statements demonstrates a violation of protected health
information? - Answer-"Mary, at work yesterday I saw that Susan had a hysterectomy."
Your facility had a hacker break in and data was altered in your facility's electronic
information. What is the best way to ensure someone from the outside cannot do this
again? - Answer-firewall
You are walking around the facility to identify any privacy and security issues. You walk
onto the 6W nursing unit and stand in a public area to look for possible violations. From
where you are standing, you see that anyone can watch the nurse entering confidential
patient information. You make a note of this. What are you doing? - Answer-conducting
a risk assessment
If HIPAA and state law conflicts, which prevails: - Answer-whichever is more protective
of the patient's privacy
The term"deidentified" indicates - Answer-all of the HIPAA specified patient identifiers
have been removed.
, Which of the following causes a privacy concern? - Answer-Bob Jones viewed a chart of
another patient with the last name of Jones.
If there are 150,000 medical records and the Health Information Department receives
3,545 requests for records in a week, what percentage of the records are requested
weekly? - Answer-2.4%
A small portion of the form you are using for a research study is reproduced below. This
is an example of
Male 1
Female 2 - Answer-nominal data
The ability to obtain the same results from different studies using different
methodologies and different populations is - Answer-reliability
The inpatient census at midnight is 67. Two patients were admitted in the morning; 1
died two hours later; the second patient was transferred to another facility that same
afternoon. The inpatient service days for that day will be - Answer-69
A patient admitted to the hospital on January 24 and discharged on February 9 has a
length of stay of - Answer-16 days
Live Births 225
Intermediate and late fetal deaths 5
Early fetal deaths 4
Newborn discharges 235 - Answer-to compute the fetal death rate at All Women's
Hospital for March. 2.2%
William Rumple was pronounced dead on arrival (DOA). The hospital pathologist
performed an autopsy on Mr. Rumple's body. This statistical event would be counted in
the - Answer-hospital autopsy rate
The best form/graph for demonstrating trends over time would be - Answer-line graph
A bar graph which displays continuous data and the columns are placed directly next to
each other is: - Answer-histogram, which is commonly used to display continuous data
Twelve new cases of a certain disease occurred during the month of August. If 4,000
persons were at risk during August, then the - Answer-incidence was 3 per 1,000
persons
You have been conducting productivity studies on your coders and find that 20% of their
time is devoted to querying physicians about missing or unclear diagnoses. Assuming
your coders work a 7-hour day, how many minutes do they spend per day querying
physicians? - Answer-84 (7*20%=1.4hr convert to minutes=84)
