HIMT 11OO MID TERM STUDY GUIDE EXAM WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS A+ GRADED
STANDARDS - ANSWER Measurements of a health care organization's level of
performance in specific areas that are created by accrediting agencies are called
REGULATION - ANSWER An interpretation of a law as written by an administrative
agency is called a(n)
ACCREDITATION - ANSWER Voluntary compliance with standards is known as
Black Death - ANSWER From 500 AD through 1347 AD, a series of epidemics known as
the ____________________ killed 42 million people in Europe
GIROLAMO FRANCASTORO - ANSWER In the De Contagione, the modern theory of the
spread of infection by invisible germs and modes of disease transmission was written by
_________________________
RENESSIANCE - ANSWER Laws against dissection were relaxed and the first scientific
studies of the human body occurred during the ____________________ period.
GERM - ANSWER Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch established the microbial, or
____________________, theory of disease.
ANESTHETIC - ANSWER Long and Morton discovered that ether gas could be used
during surgery as a(n) ____________________ to put patients to sleep
STERILIZE - ANSWER Lister believed that germs caused many surgical deaths, and he
began using carbolic acid to ____________________ surgical wounds
, CHEMOTHERAPY - ANSWER Paul Ehrlich destroyed microbes responsible for particular
diseases by using ____________________
PENNSYLVANNIA - ANSWER Benjamin Franklin established the first United States
hospital, known as the ____________________ Hospital
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID - ANSWER The Health Care Financing
Administration, now known as ____________________, was created to manage the
Medicare and Medicaid programs
PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION - ANSWER The Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982
replaced professional standard review organizations with ____________________, which
review statewide utilization of services and quality of care provided to Medicare and
Medicaid patients.
The Federal Healthcare Improvement act of 1986 - ANSWER The National Practitioner
Data Base (NPDB) was established by the ____________________ to gather information
about a practitioner's credentials, previous malpractice, and adverse action histories.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ANSWER Regulations that govern
privacy, security, and electronic transactions for health care information were
mandated by the
SMART CARD - ANSWER A plastic card that contains a small central processing unit
and memory, and can interact with a reader is known as a ____________________.
DISCHARGED - ANSWER A universal chart is created when inpatient and
____________________ patient records are organized in the same order.
PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY - ANSWER A digital signature uses
______________________________ to attach an alphanumeric code to a document to
represent the person signing the document.
SOLUTIONS A+ GRADED
STANDARDS - ANSWER Measurements of a health care organization's level of
performance in specific areas that are created by accrediting agencies are called
REGULATION - ANSWER An interpretation of a law as written by an administrative
agency is called a(n)
ACCREDITATION - ANSWER Voluntary compliance with standards is known as
Black Death - ANSWER From 500 AD through 1347 AD, a series of epidemics known as
the ____________________ killed 42 million people in Europe
GIROLAMO FRANCASTORO - ANSWER In the De Contagione, the modern theory of the
spread of infection by invisible germs and modes of disease transmission was written by
_________________________
RENESSIANCE - ANSWER Laws against dissection were relaxed and the first scientific
studies of the human body occurred during the ____________________ period.
GERM - ANSWER Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch established the microbial, or
____________________, theory of disease.
ANESTHETIC - ANSWER Long and Morton discovered that ether gas could be used
during surgery as a(n) ____________________ to put patients to sleep
STERILIZE - ANSWER Lister believed that germs caused many surgical deaths, and he
began using carbolic acid to ____________________ surgical wounds
, CHEMOTHERAPY - ANSWER Paul Ehrlich destroyed microbes responsible for particular
diseases by using ____________________
PENNSYLVANNIA - ANSWER Benjamin Franklin established the first United States
hospital, known as the ____________________ Hospital
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID - ANSWER The Health Care Financing
Administration, now known as ____________________, was created to manage the
Medicare and Medicaid programs
PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION - ANSWER The Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982
replaced professional standard review organizations with ____________________, which
review statewide utilization of services and quality of care provided to Medicare and
Medicaid patients.
The Federal Healthcare Improvement act of 1986 - ANSWER The National Practitioner
Data Base (NPDB) was established by the ____________________ to gather information
about a practitioner's credentials, previous malpractice, and adverse action histories.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ANSWER Regulations that govern
privacy, security, and electronic transactions for health care information were
mandated by the
SMART CARD - ANSWER A plastic card that contains a small central processing unit
and memory, and can interact with a reader is known as a ____________________.
DISCHARGED - ANSWER A universal chart is created when inpatient and
____________________ patient records are organized in the same order.
PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY - ANSWER A digital signature uses
______________________________ to attach an alphanumeric code to a document to
represent the person signing the document.
