RHIA Domain III Practice Quesions Flashcards
The use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health-related education, public health, and health administration is called:
a. Secure messaging
b. Consumer informatics
c. Personalized medicine
d. Telehealth
d. Telehealth
In order for health information exchange (HIE) participants to search for health records on each of the other systems using patient indexing and identification software, the systems must be linked by a(n):
a. Primary key interface (PKI)
b. Application programming interface (API)
c. Continuity of care record (CCR)
d. Record locator service (RLS)
d. Record locator service (RLS)
Which of the following is the unique identifier in the relational database patient table?
Patient Table
Patient # - Patient Last Name - First Name - DOB
021234 Smith Donna 03/21/1944
022366 Jones Donna 04/09/1960
034457 Smith Mary 08/21/1977
a. Patient last name
b. Patient last and first name
c. Patient date of birth
d. Patient number
d. Patient number
In addition to bar codes on health record documents, what other forms of recognition characteristics enhance the accuracy of form indexing features?
1. Access controls
2. COLD
3. OCR
4. Workflow
- OCR. In addition to bar codes on medical record documents, optical character recognition (OCR) may be available to enhance the accuracy of indexing features on forms
What term is used for a centralized database that captures, sorts, and processes patient data and then sends it back to the user?
1. Clinical data repository
2. Data exchange standard
3. Central processor
4. Digital system
- Clinical data repository
In a relational database, which of the following is an example of a many-to-many relationship?
a. Patients to hospital admissions
b. Patients to consulting physicians
c. Patients to hospital health records
d. Primary care physician to patients
b. Patients to consulting physicians
A possible justification for building an information system in-house rather than purchasing one from a vendor is that:
a. It is cheaper to buy than to build
b. The facility has development teams they do not want to give up
c. Integration of systems will be easier
d. Vendor products are not comprehensive enough
b. The facility has development teams they do not want to give up
What is the formatting problem in the following table?
Medical Center Hospital Admission Types
Elective 2,843 62.4
Emergency admission 942 37.6
Total 3,785 100.0
a. The variable names are missing
b. The title of the table is missing
c. The column headings are missing
d. The column totals are inaccurate
c. The column headings are missing
Community Memorial Hospital had 25 inpatient deaths, including newborns, during the month of June. The hospital had a total of 500 discharges for the same period, including deaths of adults, children, and newborns. The hospital’s gross death rate for the month of June was:
a. 0.05%
b. 2%
c. 5%
d. 20%
c. 5%
In which of the following phases of systems selection and implementation would the process of running a mock query to assess the functionality of a database be performed?
a. Initial study
b. Design
c. Testing
d. Operation
c. Testing
In the data warehouse, the patient’s last name and first name are entered into separate fields. This is an example of what?
a. Query
b. Normalization
c. Key field
d. Slicing and dicing
b. Normalization
A physician is interested in conducting research on herniated intervertebral disc disease. She wants to compare the success of conservative medical care versus surgical intervention. The best source of this information is the:
a. Disease index
b. Operative index
c. Master patient index
d. Trauma registry
a. Disease index
The health information services department at Medical Center Hospital has identified problems with its work processes. Too much time is spent on unimportant tasks, there is duplication of effort, and task assignment is uneven in quality and volume among employees. What should the manager do?
a. The manager should have each employee complete a serial work request.
b. The manager should have each employee complete a work distribution chart.
c. The manager should have the employees complete a use case analysis.
d. The manager should develop a flow process chart.
b. The manager should have each employee complete a work distribution chart.
By querying the healthcare entity data, you find that patients admitted on a weekend have a mean length of stay that is 1.3 days longer than patients who are admitted Monday through Friday. This method of finding information is called:
a. Structuring query language
b. Data mining
c. Multidimensional data structuring
d. Satisficing
b. Data mining
A health information professional is preparing statistical information about the third-party
payers that reimburse care in the facility. She finds the following information: Medicare
reimburses 46 percent; Medicaid reimburses 13 percent; Blue Cross reimburses 21 percent;
workers’ compensation reimburses 1 percent; commercial plans reimburse 15 percent; and other payers or self-payers reimburse 4 percent. What is the best graphic tool to use to display this data?
a. Histogram
b. Pie chart
c. Line graph
d. Table
b. Pie chart
