RHIT Domain 3 Practice questions

The HIM department at Community Hospital has three full time coders. One is considered the lead coder and his salary is $20.35 per hour. One coder is a new graduate who makes $15.50 per hour and a third coder is an experienced employee who earns $18.90 per hour. The lead coder codes four records per hour; the new coder codes three records per hour and their experienced coder codes six records per hour. Using a 7.5-hour productive day, what is the unit cost for the lead coder? $3.36 per record $4.49 per record $5.43 per record $5.51 per record

$5.43 per record

The HIM department of Community Hospital has three full time coders. One is considered the lead coder and his salary is $20.35 per hour. One coder is a new graduate who makes $15.50 per hour and the third coder is an experienced employee who earns $18.90 per hour. The lead coder codes four records per hour; the new coder codes three records per hour and their experienced coder codes six records per hour. Using a 7.5-hour productive day, what is the unit cost for the new graduate coder? $3.36 per record $4.49 per record $5.43 per record $5.51 per record

$5.51 per record

In the community clinic Dr. Simpson, an interventional cardiologist, saw 270 patients last quarter. Of those, he performed stent procedures on 182 patients and angioplasty procedures on 88 patients. What is the proportion of Dr. Simpson's patients who have had stent procedures? 0.67 0.45 0.33 Unable to determine

0.67

At Community Hospital, each full-time employee is required to work 2,080 hours annually. The table below shows the amount of time that five employees were absent from work over the past year. Employee A: Vacation used: 40; Sick leave used: 6 Employee B: Vacation used: 22; sick leave used: 16 Employee C: Vacation used: 36; sick leave used: 8 Employee D: Vacation used: 80; sick leave used: 32 Employee E: Vacation used: 16; sick leave used: 40 What is the total sick leave rate for this group of employees for the year? 0.29% 0.98% 1.29% 1.54%

0.98%

Mr. Jones was admitted to the hospital on March 21 and discharged on April 1. What was the length of stay for Mr. Jones? 5 days 10 days 11 days 15 days

11 days

In a frequency distribution, the lowest value is 5, and the highest value is 20. What is the range? 5 to 20 15 7.5 20 to 5

15

What is the mean for the following frequency distribution: 10, 15, 20, 25, 25? 47.5 20 19 95

19

The Information Services Department has requested information about the electronic signature system being used in your facility. They would like to know the locations where physicians are accessing the system. Review the information in the table below. What is the percentage of physicians not using the electronic signature system? 500 physician's on staff; 489 Using the system; 11 not using the system 2.2% 2.45% 18.81% 99.99%

2.2%

Community Hospital had 25 inpatient deaths, including newborns, for the month of June. The hospital performed five autopsies for the same period. What was the gross autopsy rate for the hospital for June? 0.02% 5% 20% 200%

20%

Using the information in the table below, calculate the C-section rate at University Hospital for the semiannual period. Admissions: 672 Discharges and Deaths: Delivered: 504 Not Delivered: 147 Aborted: 21 Vaginal deliveries: 403 C-sections: 101 15.03% 19.24% 20.04% 25.06%

20.04%

Analyze the following report of physician deficiency rates and determine which physician has the lowest deficiency rate for H&Ps completed within 24 hours of admission. Physician 102: 2.64 Physician 237: 1.71 Physician 391: 8.16 Physician 318: 4.10 Physician 637: 1.69 102 237 391 637

637

The coding department at Community Physician's Clinic developed the following report for the denials committee at the clinic. Use the billing report to determine how many hours it will take to reconcile these denials if each denial takes 1.5 hours to review and resubmit the bill. Total number of denials: 176 11.46 hours 264 hours 3450 hours Unable to determine

264 hours

Given the numbers 47, 20, 11, 33, 30, 30, 35, and 50, what is the median? 30 32 32.5 35

30

A family practitioner in your local physician's clinic saw 150 adults in one week for their annual physical examinations. Sixty-seven received the flu vaccine and three patients received the pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine. What is the rate of the flu vaccine administration for this physician? 44.7% 67.0% 20.0% 447%

44.7%

Community Memorial Hospital has 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: 0.05% 2% 5% 20%

5%

The HIM professional reported to the quality improvement committee at Community Hospital that there were 58 patients with influenza discharged from the hospital in January. Of those 58 patients, 3 patients died. What is the case fatality rate for influenza for January? 1.60% 5.17% 0.10% 95.8%

5.17%

On October 1st, a hurricane hit a small costal community, which has a community. Hospital licensed for 50 beds. Hospital staff set up 10 additional beds around the facility and use three labor room beds and two treatment room beds in order to help take care of patients. Which of the following would be the denominator used to determine the percentage of occupancy for October 1st? 50 60 63 65

50

Using the information in the table below, calculate the vaginal delivery rate at University Hospital for the semiannual period. Admissions: 672 Discharges and Deaths: Delivered: 504 Not Delivered: 147 Aborted: 21 Vaginal Deliveries: 403 C-sections: 101 20.04% 59.97% 84.13% 79.96%

79.96%

Community Hospital discharged nine patients on April 1. The length of stay for each of the patients was as follows: for patient A, 1 day; for patient B, 5 days; for patient C, 3 days; for patient D, 3 days; for patient E, 8 days; for patient F, 8 days; for patient G, 8 days; for patient H, 9 days; for patient I, 9 days. What was the median length of stay? 5 days 6 days 8 days 9 days

8 days

Information that has been taken from the health records of injured patients and entered into the trauma registry database has been: Aggregated Mapped Abstracted Queried

Abstracted

The Medical Staff Executive Committee has requested a report that identifies all medical staff members who have been suspended in the past six months due to delinquent health records. This is an example of what type of report? Ad hoc or demand Annual report Exception Periodic scheduled

Ad hoc or demand

The following data were derived from a comparative discharge database for hip and femur procedures: Hospital A: Hip procedures: 2,300; Femur procedures: 988 Hospital B: Hip procedures: 1,467; Femur procedures: 1,245 Hospital C: Hip procedures: 2,567; Femur procedures: 1,067 Hospital D: Hip procedures: 1,100; Femur procedures: 678 These data can be described as: Aggregate Identifiable Patient specific Primary

Aggregate

City Hospital's HIM department made a decision to discontinue outsourcing its release of information (ROI) function and perform the function in house. Because of HIPAA implementation, the department wanted better control over tracking release of information. Given the graph shown here, how would you evaluate the ROI revenue growth? Graph as follows: YR-1; Revenue: 0 Costs: 1,000,000; YR-2, Revenue: 80,000 Costs: 1,000,000; YR-3, Revenue: 1,000,000 Costs: 1,000,000; YR-4, Revenue: 1,500,000 Costs: 1,000,000; YR-5, Revenue: 1,650,000 Costs: 1,000,000; YR-6, revenue: 18,000,000 costs: 1,500,000; YR-7, Revenue: 2,150,000 Costs: 1,500,000 The ROI function continues to cost more than revenue generated. Annualized revenue for YR-7 is more than the costs. The ROI function costs are inversely related to revenue generated. The ROI costs for YR-7 are greater than the revenue.

Annualized revenue for YR-7 is more than the costs.

Suppose that five patients stayed in the hospital for a total of 27 days. Which term would be used to describe the result of the calculation 27 divided by 5? Average length of stay Total length of stay Patient length of stay Average patient census

Average length of stay

Which of the following is an example of how an internal user utilizes secondary data? State infectious disease reporting Birth certificates Death certificates Benchmarking with other facilities

Benchmarking with other facilities

After the types of cases to be included in a trauma registry have been determined, what is the next step in data acquisition? Registering Defining Abstracting Case Finding

Case finding

Review of disease indexes, pathology reports, and radiation therapy reports are parts of which function in the cancer registry? Case definition Case finding Follow-up Reporting

Case finding

The number of inpatients present in a healthcare facility at any given time is called a _____. Survey Census Sample Enumeration

Census

What term is used for the number of inpatients present at any one time in a healthcare facility? Average daily census Census Inpatient service day Length of stay

Census

Data found on sites such as Hospital Compare are aggregated data to describe the experiences of unique types of patients with one or more aspects of their care. This data collection is called? Patient-specific Administrative Comparative Detailed

Comparative

A record is considered a primary data source when it: Contains data about a patient and has been documented by the professionals who provided care to the patient. Contains data abstracted from a patient record Includes data stored in a computer system Contains data that are entered into a disease-oriented database

Contains data about a patient and has been documented by the professionals who provided care to the patient.

Community Hospital performed a cost-savings analysis between its current on-site coding processes and an e-WebCoding telecommuting model. What does the cost analysis show in the graph below? Graph shows that the current system costs more per month than the e-WebCoding application. And the e-WebCoding w/ DNFB savings is even lower The current system saves more than the e-WebCoding system would. The current system reduces DNFB significantly. Cost comparison reflects a net reduction in overall expenses on a monthly basis for the e-WebCoding system. There is not enough information to make a determination.

Cost comparison reflects a net reduction in overall expenses on a monthly basis for the e-WebCoding system.

What is the official count of inpatients taken at midnight called? Average daily census Census Daily inpatient census Inpatient service days

Daily inpatient census

Which term is used to describe the number of inpatients present at the census-taking time each day plus the number of inpatients who were both admitted and discharged after the census-taking time the previous day? Inpatient bed occupancy rate Bed count Average daily census Daily inpatient census

Daily inpatient census

One of the pediatricians at Community Physician's Clinic worked with a software vendor to get a display of the patients she currently has in the hospital on her smart phone that lets her know current information such as lab results, vital signs, medications given. This is called a _____. Big data Descriptive analytics screen Dashboard Descriptive tablet

Dashboard

Which of the following is a technique for graphically depicting the structure of a computer database? Data model Data flow diagram Foreign key Primary key

Data model

Your administrator has asked you to generate a report that gives the number of hypertension patients last year. This is an example of ______. Descriptive analytics Predictive analytics Prescriptive analytics Real-time analysis

Descriptive analytics

Community Hospital has compared its admission-type patient-profile data for two consecutive years. For a performance improvement standpoint, which admission types should the hospital examine for possible changes in capacity handling? Year 1 Patient Profile: Newborn 11%; Delivery: 10%; Emergency: 14; Urgent: 28%; Elective: 37% Year 2 Patient Profile: Newborn: 9%; Deliver: 8%; Emergency: 38%; Urgent: 16%; Elective: 29% Elective Emergency Newborn Urgent

Emergency

At Community Hospital, each full-time employee is required to work 2,080 hours annually. The table below shows the amount of time that four employees were absent from work over the past year. Employee A; Vacation used: 40; Sick leave used: 6 Employee B; Vacation used: 22; Sick leave used: 16 Employee C; Vacation used: 36; Sick leave used: 8 Employee D; Vacation used: 80; Sick leave used: 32 Which employee had the highest absentee rate? Employee A Employee B Employee C Employee D

Employee D

Large population-based studies are used to identify the care processes or interventions that achieve the best healthcare outcomes in different types of medical practice. This research concept is called? Clinical pathway Evidence-based medicine Patient-centered care Morbidity indicators

Evidence-based medicine

A statewide data base is used by your performance improvement department each month to compare other faciltiies' readmission rates to your facility's rates. This is an example of ____. Internal data External data Ratio data Nominal data

External data

The following table compares Community Hospital's pneumonia length of stay (observed LOS) to the pneumonia LOS of similar hospitals (expected LOS). Given this data, where might Community Hospital want to focus attention on its pneumonia LOS? Clinical specialty/ cases/ observed LOS/ Expected LOS/ Savings opportunity Cardiology/ 1/ 6/ 6.36/ 0 Family practice/ 17/ 8.47/ 6.26/ 38 Internal medicine/ 34/ 3.82/ 4.89/ -36 Endocrinology/ 1/ 3/ 3.93/ -1 Pediatrics/ 7/ 3.43/ 3.55/ -1 Cardiology Endocrinology Family practice Internal medicine

Family practice

The following data has been collected by the HIM department's coding productivity as part of the organization's total quality improvement program. Which of the following is the best assessment of this data? Coder/ work output/ total hours worked/ average work output per hour/ completed work percentage/ completed work output/ completed work per hour A/ 500/ 140 (full time)/ 3.57/ 91%/ 455/ 3.25 B/ 475/ 140 (full time)/ 3.39/ 96%/ 456/ 3.26 C/ 300/ 80 (part time)/ 3.75/ 85%/ 240/ 3.00 D/ 350/ 80 (part time)/ 4.69/ 70%/ 245/ 3.06 Department average: Average work output per hour: 3.69; Completed work per hour worked: 3.17 Part-time coders are more productive than full-time coders Full-time coders are more productive than part-time coders. All coders produce more than the departmental average. Part-time coders exceed the departmental average.

Full-time coders are more productive than part-time coders.

Which autopsy rate compares the number of autopsies performed on hospital inpatients to the total number of inpatient deaths for the same period of time? Net Gross Hospital Average

Gross

Which rate is used to compare the number of inpatient deaths to the total number of inpatient deaths and discharges? Net hospital death rate Fetal/newborn/maternal hospital death rate Gross hospital death rate Adjusted hospital death rate

Gross hospital death rate

To be reliable, statistical data must: Have some consistency Be applicable to what is being measured Be collected from one source only Have multiple meanings

Have some consistency

Given the following information, which of the following has the lowest work RVU? Office Visit Work RVU: 2.43 I&D of pilonidal cyst, simple work RVU: 1.22 Colonoscopy with biopsy Work RVU: 4.43 TURP, complete Work RVU: 15.26 Office visit I&D of pilonidal cyst, simple Colonoscopy with biopsy TURP, complete

I&D of pilonidal cyst, simple

Case finding is a method used to: Identify patients who have been seen or treated in a facility for a particular disease or condition for inclusion in a registry Define which cases are to be included in a registry Identify trends and changes in the incidence of disease Identify facility-based trends

Identify patients who have been seen or treated in a facility for a particular disease or condition for inclusion in a registry

Use the information provided to determine which of the following statements is correct? MS-DRG/ MDC/ Type/ MS-DRG title/ Weight/ Discharges/ Geometric mean/ Arithmetic mean 191/ 04/ MED/ Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC/ 0.9139/ 10/ 3.1/ 3.7 192/ 04/ MED/ Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC/ 0.7241/ 20/ 2.5/ 3.0 193/ 04/ MED/ Simple pneumonia & pleurisy w MCC/ 1.3167/ 10/ 4.2/ 5.2 194/ 04/ MED/ Simple pneumonia & pleurisy w CC/ 0.9002/ 20/ 3.3/ 3.9 195/ 04/ MED/ Simple pneumonia & pleurisy w/o CC/MCC/ 0.6868/ 10/ 2.6/ 3.1 In each MS-DRG, the geometric mean is lower than the arithmetic mean. In each MS-DRG, the arithmetic mean is lower than the geometric mean. The higher the number of patients in each MS-DRG, the greater the geometric mean for that MS-DRG The geometric means are lower in MS-DRGs that are associated with a CC or MCC.

In each MS-DRG, the geometric mean is lower than the arithmetic mean.

Which rate describes the probability or risk of illness in a population over a period of time? Mortality Prevalence Incidence Morbidity

Incidence

The type of statistics that makes a best guess about a larger group of data by drawing conclusions from a smaller group of data is called: Descriptive statistics Inferential statistics Generalized statistics Mathematical statistics

Inferential statistics

Which unit of measure is used to indicate the services received by one inpatient in a 24-hour period? Inpatient service day Volume of services Average occupancy charges Length of services provided

Inpatient service day

Why is the MEDPAR file limited in terms of being used for research purpose? It only contains Medicare patients. It only provides demographic data about patients. It uses diagnoses and procedure codes. It breaks charges down by specific types of service.

It contains only Medicare patients.

Which term is used to describe the number of calendar days that a patient is hospitalized? Average length of stay Length of stay Occupancy rate Level of service

Length of stay

Which of the following is made up of claims data from Medicare claims submitted by acute-care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities? NPDB MEDPAR HIPDB UHDDS

MEDPAR

Which of the following reportable diseases usually requires reporting within 24 hours of a suspected diagnosis? Chicken pox Mumps Measles Pertussis

Measles

Given the following information, from which payer does the hospital proportionately receive the least amount of payment? Payer/ Charges/ Payments/ Adjustments BC/BS/ 23%/ 31%/ 12% Commercial/ 13%/ 17%/ 6% Medicaid/ 18%/ 6%/ 35% Medicare/ 39%/ 42%/ 33% TRICARE/ 7%/ 4%/ 13% BC/BS TRICARE Medicare Medicaid

Medicaid

Certificates, such as those for birth and fetal-deaths, are reported by hospitals to the individual state registries and maintained permanently. State vital statistics registrars then compile the data and report them to which of the following: National Center for Health Statistics Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Services Research National Statistics Research

National Center for Health Statistics

Which of the following types of data does not have a natural order? Nominal Ordinal Ratio Interval

Nominal

A managed care organization is using a system that examines the past healthcare behaviors of their patients to determine their future costs for their healthcare. This is an example of _____. Descriptive analytics Predictive modeling Prescriptive analytics Real-time analysis

Predictive modeling

In the relational database shown here, the patient table and the visit table are related by: Patient Table Patient #/ Patient Last Name/ Patient First Name/ Date of Birth 021234/ Smith/ Donna/ 03/21/1944 022366/ Jones/ William/ 04/09/1960 034457/ Collins/ Mary/ 08/21/1977 Visit Table Visit #/ Date of Visit/ Practitioner #/ Patient # 0045678/ 11/12/2008/ 456/ 021234 0045679/ 11/12/2008/ 997/ 021234 0045680/ 11/12/2008/ 456/ 034457 Visit number Date of visit Patient number Practitioner number

Patient number

Which of the following is the unique identifier in the relational database patient table? Patient #/ patient last name/ patient first name/ date of birth 021234/ Smith/ Donna/ 03/21/1944 022366/ Jones/ Donna/ 04/09/1960 034457/ Smith/ Mary/ 08/21/1977 Patient last name Patient last and first name Patient date of birth Patient number

Patient number

What do the wedges or divisions in a pie graph represent? Frequency groups Various data Percentages Classes

Percentages

The Information Services Department has requested information about the electronic signature system being used in your facility. They would like to know the locations where physicians are accessing the system. Review the information in the table below and determine which site has the highest percentage of use. Medicine, 2 West: 11.04% Medicine, 2 East: 12.68% Pediatrics, 3 West: 8.59% Obstetrics, 1 West: 2.45% Physician's lounge: 17.79% HIM department: 13.29% Personal mobile device: 18.81% Physician home: 15.34% HIM department Obstetrics, 1 West Personal mobile device Physician home

Personal mobile device

If you want to display the parts of a whole in graphic form, what graphic technique would you use? Table Histogram Line graph Pie chart

Pie chart

The business office at Community Hospital is looking at software that can help them with decreasing their fraud and abuse cases. The software claims to be able to flag those patients that would most likely be involved in fraud by examining many databases at the same time and finding those patients with demographic discrepancies. This is an example of ______. Descriptive analytics Predictive analytics Inferential statistics Descriptive statistics

Predictive analytics

This type of analytics allows users to prescribe a number of different possible actions: Descriptive analytics Predictive analytics Prescriptive analytics Real-time analysis

Prescriptive analytics

Which of the following uniquely identifies each record in a database table? Data definition Data element Foreign key Primary key

Primary key

Suppose that 6 males and 14 females are in a class of 20 students with the data reported as 3/1. What term could be used to describe the comparison? Average Percentage Proportion Rate

Proportion

One of the questions on the patient satisfaction survey that is sent to the patient after discharge asks for the number of times the nurses checked the patient's vital signs in a day. This is an example of which type of data? Qualitative Interval Nominal Quantitative

Quantitative

Community Hospital is using a system that will help them detect when intracranial pressure becomes high in patients with a recent CVA that will quickly send an alert to the physician. This is an example of _____. Descriptive analytics Predictive analytics Prescriptive analytics Real-time analysis

Real-time analysis

A report has lists the ICD-10-CM codes associated with each physician in a healthcare facility can be used to assess the quality of the physician's services before he or she is: Scheduled for a coding audit Subjected to corrective action Recommended for staff reappointment Involved in an in-house training program

Recommended for staff reappointment

The HIM data analytics professional is reviewing a chart on nosocomial infections presented by the hospital's infection control committee. The committee is reporting that the decrease in infection rate has accelerated during the past 10 years. What comments should the data analytics professional make? Graph has the rate by year starting with 1950: 0.20; 1960: 0.15; 1970: 0.10; 1980: 0.07; 1982: 0.06; 1990: 0.06; 1995: 0.05; 2000: 0.05; 2005: 0.02 Concur with the conclusion of the committee State that the greatest decrease in infection rate in a year took place in 2005 State that the greatest decrease in infection rate occurred in 1960 and 1970 Request a new data chart be presented that accurately reflects the trend of infection rate

Request a new data chart be presented that accurately reflects the trend of infection rate

A celebrity injured while on vacation was admitted to the local community hospital for treatment of a fracture. On day two of the admission, the hospital was contracted by several media agencies stating that they were aware the patient was at the facility and requesting information about the current medical condition of this high profile celebrity patient. The CEO is concerned that an employee has shared information to the media regarding this patient. The facility privacy officer was tasked with determining if a facility employee leaked this information to the press. How would the privacy officer begin this analysis? Create a new policy about high-profile patient privacy Start by discussing the situation with the media to resolve their inquiries Contact employees in the facility Review audit trail information to determine which employees have accessed this patient's information

Review audit trail information to determine which employees have accessed this patient's information

Which of the following is used to plot the points for two variables that may be related to each other in some way? Force-field analysis Pareto chart Root cause analysis Scatter diagram

Scatter diagram

Given the following information, which city is the GPCI the highest for practice expense? City/ work GPCI/ Practice expense GPCI/ malpractice expense GPCI St. Louis/ 1.000/ 0.968/ 1.064 Dallas/ 1.009/ 1.001/ 0.969 Seattle/ 1.020/ 1.098/ 0.785 Philadelphia/ 1.015/ 1.084/ 1.619 St. Louis Dallas Seattle Philadelphia

Seattle

The HIM Logistics Manager, Tim, is working with the IT Workflow Analyst, Kristen, to develop entity-relationship diagrams and data flow diagrams to evaluate HIM procedures prior to the implementation of the new EHR. What type of metadata is being created during this process? Structural Descriptive Administrative Modeling

Structural

Hospital A discharges 10,000 patients per year. Hospital B is located in the same town and discharges 5,000 patients per year. At Hospital B's medical staff committee meeting, a physician reports that he is concerned about the quality of care at Hospital B because the hospital has double the number of deaths per year than Hospital A. The HIM director is tending the meeting in a staff position. Which of the following actions should the director take? Make no comment since this is a medical staff meeting. Agree with the physician that the data suggest a quality issue Suggest that the data be adjusted for possible differences in type and volume of patients treated. Suggest that an audit be done immediately to determine the cause of deaths within the hospital.

Suggest that the data be adjusted for possible differences in type and volume of patients treated.

The coding department at Community Physician's Clinic developed the following report for the denials committee at the clinic. The billing report shows the following information. Using the information below, identify which payment source has the highest denial rate. Medicare: 9.35% Medicaid: 10.14% TRICARE/Military: 7.69% Commercial payers: 6.35% Worker's compensation: 16.17% Medicare Commercial Payers Worker's Compensation TRICARE/Military

Worker's Compensation

A secondary data source includes _____. Vital statistics The medical record The physician's index A videotape of a counseling session

The physician's index

Within the context of the inpatient prospective payment system, how is the case-mix index calculated? The sum of all relative weights divided by the total number of discharges The total number of inpatient service days divided by the total number of discharges The sum of all MDCs divided by the total number of discharges The total number of inpatient beds divided by the total number of discharges

The sum of all MDCs divided by the total number of discharges.

What is (are) the format problem(s) with the following table? Community Hospital Discharges by Sex Sex/Number/Percentage Male/3,000/37.5% Female/5,000/62.5% Unknown/——/—— Total/8,000/100% The title is missing. Variable names are missing. There are blank cells. Row totals are inaccurate.

There are blank cells

Recently, a state senator was admitted to your facility for a serious medical condition. The facility privacy officer has been tasked with reviewing access logs daily to determine which of the following? Whether or not the patient is fit to continue public service What information should be shared with the media That the patient has received adequate care Whether all access by hospital employees was appropriate

Whether all access by hospital employees was appropriate

The HIM manager at Community Hospital is responsible for reviewing audit trails detailing potential access issues within the EHR. Which one of the following would be a type of activity that the manager would want to review? Every access to every data element or document type that occurred within the facility Whether the person viewed, created, updated, or deleted information belonging to a patient with the same last name Physical location of the redundant servers used for backup Whether all patients setup accounts in the patient portal

Whether the person viewed, created, updated, or deleted information belonged to a patient with the same last name.

The facility privacy officer is visited at the hospital by a recent patient who is concerned that her nosy neighbor, who happens to be a hospital employee, accessed her EHR inappropriately in order to tell other neighbors about the patient's health conditions. In order to determine this occurred, the privacy officer requests an audit log of activity within the patient's health record. What part of the audit log would the privacy officer need to first analyze to determine if this patient complaint is valid? The physician documentation from her recent stay regarding the patient's health conditions Whether the patient had requested any amendments to her record If the record has any deficiencies that would cause the record to be delinquent Which employee viewed, created, updated, or deleted information

Which employee viewed, created, updated, or deleted information