RHIT Exam Prep – Practice Questions and Complete Content
Review for AHIMA Certification 2024–2025
This exam prep guide provides a structured and complete review for the 2024–2025
AHIMA Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) exam. It features practice
questions with detailed answer explanations and covers all major competency domains:
data content and structure, information protection, informatics, revenue cycle, and legal
compliance. Ideal for RHIT candidates preparing for certification through content mastery
and targeted practice.
1. Health record tech is asked to review discharge pt abstracting module of proposed
new EHR, so what would tech consult to ensure system collects all fed req discharge
data elements for Medicare, Medicaid inpts in acute-care hosp?: Uniform Hospital
Discharge Data Set (UHDDS)
2. Outpt clinic reviews functionality of EHR it is considering purchasing, so what
should the clinic consult that ensure all fed recommended data elements for Medicare,
Medicaid outpts are collected by system?: Uniform Ambulatory
Care Data Set (UACDS)
3. Standard med term to avoid diff in naming various health conds and procedures is
one purpose of:: Vocabulary standards
4. Pt care mgrs use data and info doc'd in health record to:: Evaluate patterns and
trends of patient care
5. Active storage area for health records at a hosp is almost full, so to create more
space, what should they do:: Purge oldest records to another location
,6. As part of initiative to imp data integrity, Data Quality Committee (DQC) conducted
inventory of all hosp's databases and found that 70%+ of ID'd databases did not have
dictionaries. What should be committee's first action?-
: Establish a data dictionary policy with associated standards
7. Hosp has 100+ clinical databases and DQC is studying comparability among
databases (DB). Data elements and definitions are cataloged for each DB, so what should
their next step be to determine the degree of data comparability among DBs?: Select rep
set of data elements and track these across the databases to ID consistencies and differences.
8. New HIM director has been asked by hosp to ensure data content standards are
ID'd, understood, implemented, and managed for hosp's planned EHR system, so what
should be the HIM director's first step in carrying out responsibility?: Identify data content
requirements for all areas of the organization
9. At adm, pt's DOB is 3/25/48, but audit of EHR shows the numbers in DOB are
transposed in reports. This situation reflects a problem in:: Data consistency
10. Family pract req's opinion of phys specialist, who reviews pt's health record and
examines pt. Phys specialist would record findings, impressions, and recommendations
in what type of report:: Consultation report
11. What are key characteristics of the problem-oriented health record?: Uses an itemized
list of patient's past and present health problems?
12. Data elements collected on large populations of individuals and stored in
DBs are referred to as:: Aggregate data
13. Health data analyst has been asked to compile a report of the percentage of pts who
had baseline PTT tests performed prior to rec'ing heparin, so what clinical reports in
the health record would the analyst consult to prepare this report?: Medication record
and clinical lab reports
14. ABC Hosp wants to compare it's HAC UTI rate for Medicare pts w/nat'l avg and is
using MEDPAR DB for comparison. MEDPAR DB contains 13M discharges, with
, 200K adm'd w/PD of UTI, 300K adm'd w/PD of infectious dz, and 700K had dx of
hypertension. What would be the best comparison data for ABC Hosp?: All individuals
in MEDPAR DB except those admitted with principal diagnosis of UTI or infection disease
15. Health data analyst is asked to compile listing of daily BP readings for pts w/dx of
hypertension who were tx on medicine unit within a 2wk period, so what clinical
report would be best to gather this info?: Vital signs record
16. What is the median of 47, 20,11, 33, 30, 35, and 50?: 11, 20, 30, 33, 35, 47, 50 mean that
the median would be 33, but the answer say to take the avg of 30 and 33 and therefore = 31.5
WRONG!!!!
17. ABC Hosp had 250 pts in hosp at midnight on 5/, admitted 30 pts on 5/2, discharged
40 pts (incl deaths) on 5/2, 2 pts adm'd and discharged on 5/2, so what was the total
number of inpt service days for 5/2?: 242
250+30-40+2 = 242
18. An example of data collected by TJC for the ORYX initiatives is:: Patient
demographic data
19. What is ORYX?: A Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
initiative that supports integration of outcomes data and other performance measurement data
into the accreditation process
20. What is the best numbering system for maintaining enc's of pt's health record
together?: Unit
21. HIM mgr conducts study of comparing ICD-9 and ICD-10 DM codes and the
variations in order to assess impact on the organization, so this process creates what?:
Data map/data mapping is an essential component of standards building to facilitate health
information exchange and requires significant linkage between old and new code sets to
preserve continuity of service and prevent data loss
22. What is considered the authoritative key in locating a health record?: Master patient
index
Review for AHIMA Certification 2024–2025
This exam prep guide provides a structured and complete review for the 2024–2025
AHIMA Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) exam. It features practice
questions with detailed answer explanations and covers all major competency domains:
data content and structure, information protection, informatics, revenue cycle, and legal
compliance. Ideal for RHIT candidates preparing for certification through content mastery
and targeted practice.
1. Health record tech is asked to review discharge pt abstracting module of proposed
new EHR, so what would tech consult to ensure system collects all fed req discharge
data elements for Medicare, Medicaid inpts in acute-care hosp?: Uniform Hospital
Discharge Data Set (UHDDS)
2. Outpt clinic reviews functionality of EHR it is considering purchasing, so what
should the clinic consult that ensure all fed recommended data elements for Medicare,
Medicaid outpts are collected by system?: Uniform Ambulatory
Care Data Set (UACDS)
3. Standard med term to avoid diff in naming various health conds and procedures is
one purpose of:: Vocabulary standards
4. Pt care mgrs use data and info doc'd in health record to:: Evaluate patterns and
trends of patient care
5. Active storage area for health records at a hosp is almost full, so to create more
space, what should they do:: Purge oldest records to another location
,6. As part of initiative to imp data integrity, Data Quality Committee (DQC) conducted
inventory of all hosp's databases and found that 70%+ of ID'd databases did not have
dictionaries. What should be committee's first action?-
: Establish a data dictionary policy with associated standards
7. Hosp has 100+ clinical databases and DQC is studying comparability among
databases (DB). Data elements and definitions are cataloged for each DB, so what should
their next step be to determine the degree of data comparability among DBs?: Select rep
set of data elements and track these across the databases to ID consistencies and differences.
8. New HIM director has been asked by hosp to ensure data content standards are
ID'd, understood, implemented, and managed for hosp's planned EHR system, so what
should be the HIM director's first step in carrying out responsibility?: Identify data content
requirements for all areas of the organization
9. At adm, pt's DOB is 3/25/48, but audit of EHR shows the numbers in DOB are
transposed in reports. This situation reflects a problem in:: Data consistency
10. Family pract req's opinion of phys specialist, who reviews pt's health record and
examines pt. Phys specialist would record findings, impressions, and recommendations
in what type of report:: Consultation report
11. What are key characteristics of the problem-oriented health record?: Uses an itemized
list of patient's past and present health problems?
12. Data elements collected on large populations of individuals and stored in
DBs are referred to as:: Aggregate data
13. Health data analyst has been asked to compile a report of the percentage of pts who
had baseline PTT tests performed prior to rec'ing heparin, so what clinical reports in
the health record would the analyst consult to prepare this report?: Medication record
and clinical lab reports
14. ABC Hosp wants to compare it's HAC UTI rate for Medicare pts w/nat'l avg and is
using MEDPAR DB for comparison. MEDPAR DB contains 13M discharges, with
, 200K adm'd w/PD of UTI, 300K adm'd w/PD of infectious dz, and 700K had dx of
hypertension. What would be the best comparison data for ABC Hosp?: All individuals
in MEDPAR DB except those admitted with principal diagnosis of UTI or infection disease
15. Health data analyst is asked to compile listing of daily BP readings for pts w/dx of
hypertension who were tx on medicine unit within a 2wk period, so what clinical
report would be best to gather this info?: Vital signs record
16. What is the median of 47, 20,11, 33, 30, 35, and 50?: 11, 20, 30, 33, 35, 47, 50 mean that
the median would be 33, but the answer say to take the avg of 30 and 33 and therefore = 31.5
WRONG!!!!
17. ABC Hosp had 250 pts in hosp at midnight on 5/, admitted 30 pts on 5/2, discharged
40 pts (incl deaths) on 5/2, 2 pts adm'd and discharged on 5/2, so what was the total
number of inpt service days for 5/2?: 242
250+30-40+2 = 242
18. An example of data collected by TJC for the ORYX initiatives is:: Patient
demographic data
19. What is ORYX?: A Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
initiative that supports integration of outcomes data and other performance measurement data
into the accreditation process
20. What is the best numbering system for maintaining enc's of pt's health record
together?: Unit
21. HIM mgr conducts study of comparing ICD-9 and ICD-10 DM codes and the
variations in order to assess impact on the organization, so this process creates what?:
Data map/data mapping is an essential component of standards building to facilitate health
information exchange and requires significant linkage between old and new code sets to
preserve continuity of service and prevent data loss
22. What is considered the authoritative key in locating a health record?: Master patient
index
