Ch.4 Review Questions

The name of the government agency that has led the development of basic data sets for health records and computer databases is the:

Minimum data set in healthcare are developed to:

Data that are collected from individual records and then combined are referred to as:

The inpatient data set that has been incorporated into federal law and is required for Medicare reporting is the:

Both HEDIS and the Joint Commission's ORYX program are designed to collect data to be used for:

Critique this statement: The continutity care record contains only current clincial information:

Standardizing medical terminology to avoid differences in naming various medical conditions and procedures (such as the synonyms bunionectomy, McBride procedure, and repair of hallus valgus) is one purpose of:

The federal law that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop healthcare standards governing electronic data interchange and data security is the:

A key technology tool for enabling data is:

Most healthcare informatics standards have been implemented by:

A critical early step in designing an EHR is to developed a ____ in which the characteristics of each data element are defined

According to the UHDDS definiton, ethnicity should be recorded on a patient record as:

Mary Smith, RHIA has been asked to work on the develpment of a hospital trauma data registry. Which of the following data sets would be most helpful in developing this registry?

While the focus of inpatient data collection is on the principal diagnosis, the focus of ______ outpatient data collection is on:

In long term care, the resident's care plan is based on data collected in the:

Reinbursement for home health services in dependent of data collected from:

A consumer interested in comparing the performance of health plans should review data from:

HEDIS

Each of the three dimensions (personal, provider, community) of information defined by the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) contains specific recommendations for:

A statewide cancer surveillance system is an example of which of the NHII dimensions?

Providers and health plans need to share information. What standard must they use?

A radiology department is planning to develop a remote clinic and plans to transmit images for diagnostic purposes. The most important standards to implement in order to transmit images is:

I work for outpatient surgery center. What data set should I use?

Laboratory data is succnessfully transmitted back and forth from Community Hospital to three local physician clinics. This successful transmission is dependent on which of the following standards?

As many private and public standards groups promulgate health informatics standards, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has been given resposibility for: