CAHIMS - Module 2 - Technology
Environment Solved
_______ is the highest number of bits that can be sent across the media at any one
time
A) Bandwidth
B) Throughput
C) Mbps
D) Goodput - ANSWER-B
"An electronic record of patient health information containing care received in all health
facilities" is the definition of:
A) an Electronic Medical Record
B) a Personal Health Record
C) a Healthcare Information Record
D) an Electronic Health Record - ANSWER-D
A friend of a patient asks the nurse if the patient is HIV positive. If the nurse provides
this information, what is he or she guilty of?
A) Breach of confidentiality
B) Information by consent
C) Violating information security
D) Nothing; this is not illegal - ANSWER-A
Due to increased funding for health IT, healthcare organizations and administrators are
currently more motivated to use technology to do which of the following?
A) Survey patient satisfaction
B) Improve quality and patient safety
C) Decrease cost
D) Manage information - ANSWER-B
Hardware can be defined as:
A) The physical components that make things work
B) Fast, low cost PC systems that permeate the workplace often less than $500 each
C) Data needed to tell the computer what to do and how to behave
D) A computer designed to efficiently run server applications - ANSWER-A
Software can be defined as:
A) The physical components of servers
B) A collection of computers and devices connected by communications channels that
facilitates communications among users to share resources with other users
C) The nuts and bolts that make things work
D) A collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions
telling a computer what to do - ANSWER-D
Environment Solved
_______ is the highest number of bits that can be sent across the media at any one
time
A) Bandwidth
B) Throughput
C) Mbps
D) Goodput - ANSWER-B
"An electronic record of patient health information containing care received in all health
facilities" is the definition of:
A) an Electronic Medical Record
B) a Personal Health Record
C) a Healthcare Information Record
D) an Electronic Health Record - ANSWER-D
A friend of a patient asks the nurse if the patient is HIV positive. If the nurse provides
this information, what is he or she guilty of?
A) Breach of confidentiality
B) Information by consent
C) Violating information security
D) Nothing; this is not illegal - ANSWER-A
Due to increased funding for health IT, healthcare organizations and administrators are
currently more motivated to use technology to do which of the following?
A) Survey patient satisfaction
B) Improve quality and patient safety
C) Decrease cost
D) Manage information - ANSWER-B
Hardware can be defined as:
A) The physical components that make things work
B) Fast, low cost PC systems that permeate the workplace often less than $500 each
C) Data needed to tell the computer what to do and how to behave
D) A computer designed to efficiently run server applications - ANSWER-A
Software can be defined as:
A) The physical components of servers
B) A collection of computers and devices connected by communications channels that
facilitates communications among users to share resources with other users
C) The nuts and bolts that make things work
D) A collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions
telling a computer what to do - ANSWER-D
