Question 1. Question : (TCO 5) The physician records his findings while still in the patient’s room. This is called:
Computers on wheels
Alerts
Point of care documentation
Clinical practice guidelines
Question 2. Question : (TCO 5) The coding supervisor wants a daily report of health records that need to be coded. Which of the following systems would be best in meeting the supervisor’s needs?
CDSS
DSS
EIS
MIS
Question 3. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following systems is designed primarily to support patient care by providing healthcare professionals access to timely, complete, and relevant information for patient care purposes?
Administrative information system
Clinical information system
Management support system
Strategic information system
Question 4. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a DSS?
Provides ad hoc reports
Provides day-to-day reports
Uses statistical modeling
Answers what-if questions
Question 5. Question : (TCO 5) I am entering free text and structured data. This is called:
Template-based entry
Alerts
Care pathways
Clinical practice guidelines
Question 6. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following information systems is used to assist healthcare providers in the actual diagnosis and treatment of patients?
Clinical decision support system
Laboratory information system
Management information system
Pharmacy information system
Question 7. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following is used primarily for monitoring performance?
DSS
EIS
ES
MIS
Question 8. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following systems focuses on providing reports and information to managers for day-to-day operations of the organization?
Executive information system
Clinical decision support system
Management information system
Strategic decision support system
Question 9. Question : (TCO 7) Which of the following is a core ethical obligation of HITs?
Coding diseases and operations
Protecting patients’ privacy and confidential communications
Transcribing medical reports
Performing quantitative analysis on record content
Question 10. Question : (TCO 7) Which of the following ethical principles is being followed when an HIT professional ensures that patient information is only released to those who have a legal right to access it?
Autonomy
Beneficence
Justice
Nonmaleficence
Question 11. Question : (TCO 7) Privacy can be defined as:
The limitation of the use and disclosure of private information
The right of an individual to be let alone
The physical and electronic protection of information
The protection of information from accidental or intentional disclosure
Question 12. Question : (TCO 7) Which of the following is an example of data collected by a patient monitoring system?
Demographic information
Vital signs
Lab results
Radiology report
Question 13. Question : (TCO 7) I am concerned about the possibility that the PHI that I am releasing as an ROI coordinator will be re-released to another inappropriately. Why would I be concerned with a secondary release of information?
PHI could be released without patient authorization.
This practice is illegal.
The hospital would be responsible for any inappropriate secondary release.
The secondary release is prohibited by many states.
Question 14. Question : (TCO 7) Which of the following statements represents an example of nonmaleficence?
HITs must ensure that patient-identifiable information is not released to unauthorized parties.
HITs must apply rules fairly and consistently to every case.
HITs must ensure that patient-identifiable information is released to the parties who need it to provide services to their patients.
HITs must ensure that patients themselves, and not other parties, are authorizing access to the patients’ individual health information.
Question 15. Question : (TCO 6) I work for a 10-hospital chain that is purchasing five more hospitals. Many of these hospitals have different vendors supplying their information systems. This has resulted in concerns regarding
Point-of-care charting
Data mining
Interoperability
Supportive functions
