HIM 3101 Exam 1 Study Guide PREP
STUDY QUESTIONS correctly answered
to pass
Patient record - correct answer ✔✔a primary source of health data and information for health
care industry; can be paper-based, electronic, or a combination of both
Hybrid record - correct answer ✔✔paper-based, electronic or a combination of both
Data - correct answer ✔✔raw facts, characters, or symbols that, when organized and processed
to produce meaning, result in information
Record - correct answer ✔✔a body of known or recorded facts regarding someone or
something
Secondary data - correct answer ✔✔data from the record that are stored in government and
private databases
Legal health record (LHR) - correct answer ✔✔a legal document, the patient record is defined as
a record that is "generated at or for a healthcare organization as its business record and is the
record that would be released upon request.
Clinical data - correct answer ✔✔captured during the process of diagnosis and treatment,
supports direct patient care and is used for health care reimbursement, planning, and research
purposes
Epidemiological databases - correct answer ✔✔aggregated data about a population, reveals
disease trends
, Demographic data - correct answer ✔✔used to provide unique identification of individual,
patient, health care provider
Financial data - correct answer ✔✔derived from care process, used individual for patient billing,
reimbursement, and in aggregate for understanding clinical cost of health care, rules for
reimbursement and organizations of financial well-being
Research data - correct answer ✔✔collected as part of care or gathered for specific research
purposes or clinic trials
Coded data - correct answer ✔✔data translated into a code using standard nomenclature or
classification system that may be aggregated, analyzed, and compared for decision-making
purposes
COP - conditions of participations - correct answer ✔✔spelled out for health care providers the
regulations that they must follow to be reimbursed for health care given to patients who use
Medicare and Medicaid as their payment source
AHIMA Foundation - correct answer ✔✔a separate, incorporate affiliate organization that
actively supports people, research, resources, and education in the HIM profession
Associate Degree HIM - correct answer ✔✔possesses technical expertise in health data
collection, analysis, monitoring, maintenance, and reporting activities in accordance with
established data quality principles, legal and regulatory standards, and professional best
practice guidelines
Baccalaureate Degree HIM - correct answer ✔✔possesses expertise to develop, implement, or
manage individual, aggregate, and public health care data collection and reporting systems.
STUDY QUESTIONS correctly answered
to pass
Patient record - correct answer ✔✔a primary source of health data and information for health
care industry; can be paper-based, electronic, or a combination of both
Hybrid record - correct answer ✔✔paper-based, electronic or a combination of both
Data - correct answer ✔✔raw facts, characters, or symbols that, when organized and processed
to produce meaning, result in information
Record - correct answer ✔✔a body of known or recorded facts regarding someone or
something
Secondary data - correct answer ✔✔data from the record that are stored in government and
private databases
Legal health record (LHR) - correct answer ✔✔a legal document, the patient record is defined as
a record that is "generated at or for a healthcare organization as its business record and is the
record that would be released upon request.
Clinical data - correct answer ✔✔captured during the process of diagnosis and treatment,
supports direct patient care and is used for health care reimbursement, planning, and research
purposes
Epidemiological databases - correct answer ✔✔aggregated data about a population, reveals
disease trends
, Demographic data - correct answer ✔✔used to provide unique identification of individual,
patient, health care provider
Financial data - correct answer ✔✔derived from care process, used individual for patient billing,
reimbursement, and in aggregate for understanding clinical cost of health care, rules for
reimbursement and organizations of financial well-being
Research data - correct answer ✔✔collected as part of care or gathered for specific research
purposes or clinic trials
Coded data - correct answer ✔✔data translated into a code using standard nomenclature or
classification system that may be aggregated, analyzed, and compared for decision-making
purposes
COP - conditions of participations - correct answer ✔✔spelled out for health care providers the
regulations that they must follow to be reimbursed for health care given to patients who use
Medicare and Medicaid as their payment source
AHIMA Foundation - correct answer ✔✔a separate, incorporate affiliate organization that
actively supports people, research, resources, and education in the HIM profession
Associate Degree HIM - correct answer ✔✔possesses technical expertise in health data
collection, analysis, monitoring, maintenance, and reporting activities in accordance with
established data quality principles, legal and regulatory standards, and professional best
practice guidelines
Baccalaureate Degree HIM - correct answer ✔✔possesses expertise to develop, implement, or
manage individual, aggregate, and public health care data collection and reporting systems.
