Information Retention and Access

Question 1

What is a Terminal Digit filing system?

Answer 1

A system of health record identification and filing in which the last digit or group of digits in the health record number determines file placement.

Question 2

What is a Straight Numeric filing system?

Answer 2

A health record filing system in which health records are arranged in ascending numerical order.

Question 3

What is a Middle Digit filing system?

Answer 3

A numeric filing system in which the middle digits are used as the finding aid to organize the filing system.

Question 4

What is the Patient Self Determination Act?

Answer 4

The federal legislation that requires healthcare facilities to provide written information on the patient’s right to issue advance directives and to accept or refuse medical treatment.

Question 5

True or False: Under the PSDA, advance directives are not required to be included in the health record.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

According to Medicare’s COP’s, medical records must be held for at least how many years

Answer 6

Five

Question 7

What is Roll Microfilm?

Answer 7

This format stores each document page sequentially in a long roll.

Question 8

What is Jacket Microfilm?

Answer 8

A roll of microfilm is cut and placed into special 4 by 6 inch jackets with several sleeves to hold images.

Question 9

What is Cartridge Microfilm?

Answer 9

A microfilm cartridge is simply roll microfilm that has been placed in a compact plastic holder, which is self-threading in compatible retrieval equipment.

Question 10

What is Cassette Microfilm?

Answer 10

A cassette is like a cartridge in that it houses a roll of microfilm but different in that it contains both a feed and take-up reel.

Question 11

What is a Serial Numbering System?

Answer 11

Patients are assigned a different but unique numerical identifier for every admission.

Question 12

What is a Unit Numbering System?

Answer 12

The patient receives a unique medical record number at the time of the first encounter and is used for all subsequent encounters.

Question 13

What is HTML?

Answer 13

Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.

Question 14

What is SQL?

Answer 14

Structured Query Language. SQL is used to communicate with a database.

Question 15

What is XML?

Answer 15

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

Question 16

What is the Intranet?

Answer 16

a local or restricted communications network, especially a private network created using World Wide Web software.

Question 17

What is the Internet?

Answer 17

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide.

Question 18

What is the Extranet?

Answer 18

An intranet that can be partially accessed by authorized outside users, enabling businesses to exchange information over the Internet securely.

Question 19

What is a Clinical Information System.

Answer 19

A Hospital information system is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage all the aspects of a hospital operation, such as medical, administrative, financial, legal and the corresponding service processing.

Question 20

What is OLAP?

Answer 20

OLAP is an acronym for Online Analytical Processing. OLAP performs multidimensional analysis of business data and provides the capability for complex calculations, trend analysis, and sophisticated data modeling.