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Physicians use the ________ to access multiple sources of patient information within
the healthcare organization's network. - Answer - ✔ Clinician portal
The MPI manager has identified a pattern of duplicate health record numbers from the
specimen processing area of the hospital. After spending time merging the patient
information and correcting the duplicates in the patient information system, the MPI
manager needs to notify which department to correct the source system data? - Answer
- ✔ Laboratory
As a preliminary step in designing an IS strategy, it is important for the steering
committee to conduct a scan of the external environment and to: - Answer - ✔ Conduct
an internal environmental assessment
The capture of secondary diagnoses that increase the incidence of CCs and MCCs at
final coding may have an impact on: - Answer - ✔ Case-mix index
Online or real-time transaction processing (OLTP) is a functional requirement for a: -
Answer - ✔ Data repository
Data repositories in healthcare organizations require tools designed to perform intricate
data searches and retrievals using online or real-time transaction processing (OLTP)
Master patient index (MPI) - Answer - ✔ contains patient-identifiable data such as
name, address, date of birth, dates of hospitalizations or encounters, name of attending
physician, and health record number
A request for proposal (RFP) serves two important purposes: it solidifies the planning
information and healthcare entity requirements into a single document, and it: - Answer
- ✔ Provides valuable insights into the vendors operations and products and levels the
playing field in terms of asking all the vendors the same questions
There were 25 inpatient deaths, including newborns, at Community Memorial Hospital
during the month of June. The hospital performed five autopsies during the same
period. The gross autopsy rate for the hospital for June was: - Answer - ✔ 20%
A gross autopsy rate is the proportion or percentage of deaths that are followed by the
performance of autopsy. Using this data, five patients had autopsies performed out of
the 25 deaths; therefore, 5/25 = 0.2 × 100 = 20%
, Personal Health Record (PHR) - Answer - ✔ Organizational policy should address how
personal health information provided by the patient will or will not be incorporated into
the patient's health record. Copies of personal health records (PHR), created, owned,
and managed by the patient are considered part of the legal health record when the
organization uses them to provide treatment; however, the PHR does not replace the
legal health record
In January, Community Hospital had 57 discharges from its medicine unit. Four patients
developed urinary tract infections while in the hospital. What is the hospital-acquired
infection rate for the medicine unit for January? - Answer - ✔ 7 %
In which phase of the systems development life cycle does initial training on a new
information system generally occur? - Answer - ✔ Implementation
What is an example that illustrates data that has been transformed into meaningful
information? - Answer - ✔ Average length of stay at Holt Hospital is 5.6 days
HIM departments may be the hub of identifying, mitigating, and correcting master
patient index (MPI) errors. But that information often is not shared with other
departments within the healthcare entity. After identifying procedural problems that
contribute to the creation of the MPI errors, which department should the MPI manager
work with to correct these procedural problems? - Answer - ✔ Registration or patient
access
Structured Query Language (SQL) - Answer - ✔ includes both data dictionary language
and data manipulation language components and is used to create and manipulate
relational databases
A protocol to pass data from the system of one vendor to the information system of
another vendor is called: - Answer - ✔ Interface
software that works between two or more systems to enable the two systems to share
data
The ________ is a standardized assessment of consumer perspectives regarding
healthcare access and quality in hospitals. - Answer - ✔ Hospital Consumer
Assessment of Healthcare Providers (HCAHPS)
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers (HCAHPS) is standardized
assessment of consumer perspectives regarding healthcare access and quality
(CAHPS) by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services
Which request for proposal (RFP) component would fit the following description:
Describe how your product supports the ability to register a patient in the clinic, admit