WGU C810 Foundations in Healthcare Data
Management questions with verified answers
Ans✓✓✓ _____________ is individually identifiable health information held or
transmitted by a covered entity or business associate.
a. Designated Record Set
b. Protected Health Information (PHI)
c. Disclosure List
d. Directory Information
Ans✓✓✓ A hospital receives less reimbursement because a patient acquires a
stage 4 pressure ulcer during a hospitalization. This is an example of which of the
following?
a. External benchmarking
b. Value-based payment penalty
c. Internal benchmarking
d. Value-based payment incentive
Ans✓✓✓ A patient has the right to request a(n) ______________________,
which describes where the covered entity has disclosed patient information for
the past 6 years outside of treatment, payment, and healthcare operations.
a. Disclosure List
b. Designated Record Set
c. Amendment of Medical Record
d. Accounting of Disclosures
Ans✓✓✓ An example of an intrahospital transfer is when a(n)
,a. patient is moved from one hospital to another.
b. emergency room patient is admitted to the hospital.
c. inpatient is moved from the surgical nursing unit to the ICU.
d. clinic patient is moved to the hospital via ambulance.
Ans✓✓✓ Data and statistical analysis is valuable in which of the following HIM
tasks?
a. scanning
b. strategic planning
c. coding
d. orientation and training
Ans✓✓✓ How is health information exchange intended to improve care quality?
a. Better management of health care information.
b. Greater consumer engagement in their wellness.
c. Easier reporting to public health organizations.
d. Healthcare information available where and when it is needed.
Ans✓✓✓ In which form of database would data mining to support complex data
analysis most effectively take place?
a. Clinical data repository
b. Clinical data warehouse
c. Database management system
d. Electronic health record
, Ans✓✓✓ Interoperability between healthcare information systems is
challenging to achieve because of the following.
a. Technology vendors refuse to deploy recommended standards
b. Organizations do not want to share information with competitors
c. Flexibility in standards deployment enables a high level of customization within
an organization
d. Inadequate incentives provided to motivate cooperation between technology
vendors.
Ans✓✓✓ On which criterion is Medicaid eligibility based?
a. Income
b. Whether a person is Medicare eligible
c. Age
d. Health status
Ans✓✓✓ The arithmetic average is the:
a. middle
b. mode
c. mean
d. median
Ans✓✓✓ The blue Button Initiative is an example of what kind of health
information exchange model.
a. Boolean based exchange
b. Query based exchange
c. Direct Protocol messaging
, d. Consumer mediated exchange
Ans✓✓✓ The emerging wireless technology that could potentially replace bar
codes for tracking patients, clinicians, medications and equipment is _____.
a. HTML
b. OCR
c. RFID
d. ICR
Ans✓✓✓ The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act of 2009 was passed to address the following:
a. Inform Technology vendors about interoperability standards
b. Improve the efficiency of healthcare in the United States
c. Increase the use of health IT
d. Improve consumer engagement in healthcare delivery
Ans✓✓✓ The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) contains which of these
characteristics?
a. Human Readability
b. Syntax
c. Extensible Metadata
d. Continuity
Ans✓✓✓ The management of all aspects of health data and information through
the application of computers and computer technologies is called _____.
a. medical informatics
Management questions with verified answers
Ans✓✓✓ _____________ is individually identifiable health information held or
transmitted by a covered entity or business associate.
a. Designated Record Set
b. Protected Health Information (PHI)
c. Disclosure List
d. Directory Information
Ans✓✓✓ A hospital receives less reimbursement because a patient acquires a
stage 4 pressure ulcer during a hospitalization. This is an example of which of the
following?
a. External benchmarking
b. Value-based payment penalty
c. Internal benchmarking
d. Value-based payment incentive
Ans✓✓✓ A patient has the right to request a(n) ______________________,
which describes where the covered entity has disclosed patient information for
the past 6 years outside of treatment, payment, and healthcare operations.
a. Disclosure List
b. Designated Record Set
c. Amendment of Medical Record
d. Accounting of Disclosures
Ans✓✓✓ An example of an intrahospital transfer is when a(n)
,a. patient is moved from one hospital to another.
b. emergency room patient is admitted to the hospital.
c. inpatient is moved from the surgical nursing unit to the ICU.
d. clinic patient is moved to the hospital via ambulance.
Ans✓✓✓ Data and statistical analysis is valuable in which of the following HIM
tasks?
a. scanning
b. strategic planning
c. coding
d. orientation and training
Ans✓✓✓ How is health information exchange intended to improve care quality?
a. Better management of health care information.
b. Greater consumer engagement in their wellness.
c. Easier reporting to public health organizations.
d. Healthcare information available where and when it is needed.
Ans✓✓✓ In which form of database would data mining to support complex data
analysis most effectively take place?
a. Clinical data repository
b. Clinical data warehouse
c. Database management system
d. Electronic health record
, Ans✓✓✓ Interoperability between healthcare information systems is
challenging to achieve because of the following.
a. Technology vendors refuse to deploy recommended standards
b. Organizations do not want to share information with competitors
c. Flexibility in standards deployment enables a high level of customization within
an organization
d. Inadequate incentives provided to motivate cooperation between technology
vendors.
Ans✓✓✓ On which criterion is Medicaid eligibility based?
a. Income
b. Whether a person is Medicare eligible
c. Age
d. Health status
Ans✓✓✓ The arithmetic average is the:
a. middle
b. mode
c. mean
d. median
Ans✓✓✓ The blue Button Initiative is an example of what kind of health
information exchange model.
a. Boolean based exchange
b. Query based exchange
c. Direct Protocol messaging
, d. Consumer mediated exchange
Ans✓✓✓ The emerging wireless technology that could potentially replace bar
codes for tracking patients, clinicians, medications and equipment is _____.
a. HTML
b. OCR
c. RFID
d. ICR
Ans✓✓✓ The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act of 2009 was passed to address the following:
a. Inform Technology vendors about interoperability standards
b. Improve the efficiency of healthcare in the United States
c. Increase the use of health IT
d. Improve consumer engagement in healthcare delivery
Ans✓✓✓ The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) contains which of these
characteristics?
a. Human Readability
b. Syntax
c. Extensible Metadata
d. Continuity
Ans✓✓✓ The management of all aspects of health data and information through
the application of computers and computer technologies is called _____.
a. medical informatics
