Health Welfare

Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent one million heart attacks. The focus is to educate providers and patients on the "ABCS" of health attack prevention through the use of health information technology. Which of the following is a component of the ABCS?

Blood Pressure Control

True or False? Health information technology's (HIT) goal is to manage the health data that can be used by patients/consumers, insurance companies, health care providers, health care administrators, and any stakeholder that has an interest in health care

True

True or False? The Sherman Act of 1890 is an antitrust law focused on eliminating monopolies

True

True or False? The concept of informed consent is based on the patient's right to make an informed decision regarding medical treatment. It is a legal requirement in all 50 states. It is more than a patient signing an informed consent form—it is the communication between the provider and patient regarding a specific medical treatment

True

True or False? Electronic health records, according to the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), are electronic records of health-related information on an individual that is accumulated from one health system and is utilized by the health organization that is providing patient care. The electronic health record (EHR) and electronic mental record (EMR) are the same record and there is no difference between the two

False

True or False? Meaningful use as it applies to electronic health records has established core measures that patients can select to determine the contents of their medical record

False

True or False? Qui tam provisions, a concept used in antitrust law, is Latin for "he who sues". This provision prohibits individuals to sue providers for fraudulent activity against the federal government, recovering a portion of the funds returned to the government

False

True or False? Telemedicine refers to the use of IT to enable healthcare provider to communicate only with other providers within the same hospital

False

True or False? The Patient Bill of Rights states that the patient must obtain consent from his/her provider in order to access any information from the provider regarding any testing, diagnoses, and treatments.

False

The development of electronic medical records (EMRs) has had a significant impact on the healthcare industry. Which of the following are advantages of EMRs?

All of the above are correct

The American Medical Association recommends which step(s) to a physician on how to terminate a relationship with a patient

All of these are correct

The _ was enacted under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, is Title XXI of the Social Security Act, and is jointly financed by federal and state funding and administered by the states. Administered by CMS, the purpose of this program is to provide coverage for low-income children younger than the age of 19 years who live above the income level requirements of Medicaid

Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

The purpose of antitrust law is to protect the consumer by ensuring there is a market driven by competition, so the consumer has a choice for health care. Which of the following is an example of federal antitrust laws

Clayton Act

In the legal relationship between the provider and patient, in order to establish a contractual relationship with a patient, three elements must be present. Which of the following elements is not needed to establish a patient provider contractual relationship

Designation of a beneficiary

Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) are used by software programs to alert pharmacists and clinicians about potential drug-drug interactions. Of the DDI's usefulness in increasing patient safety, which of the following is not a component of the software

Inform clinicians as to the cost and insurance plan of the patient

Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) are clinical decision support systems that enable a patient's provider to enter a prescription order, order for a lab or diagnostic test into a computer system. The COPE entry has four components. Which of the following is not a component of the COPE system

Information must then be hand written by front desk staff

In order for a contract to exist, there must be four components of the contract. Which of the following is not a component of a contract?

Only one of the two parties must be competent to consent to the agreement

In order to implement a health information technology (HIT)within a healthcare organization, several critical factors must be present within the healthcare organization for successful HIT implementation. These include all but which of the following

Patients willing to pay a premium to use the system

The merging of medicine and technology have led to the development of a variety of medical related instruments and tool that have improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare encounters. Examples of these applied health information technology include all but which of the following?

RadMed 100

refers to employers that take reasonable action to accommodate a disabled individual such as providing special computer equipment or furniture to accommodate a physical limitation

Reasonable accommodation

True or False? "Tying", which is illegal according to the Sherman Act of 1890, refers to health care providers that will only sell a product to a consumer who will also buy a second product from them

True

True or False? A technique of AI is expert systems (ESs) which were developed to imitate expert's knowledge in decision- making

True

True or False? An Enterprise Data Warehouse is developed to provide information to aid enterprises in making decisions from a strategic perspective. Data warehousing requires an integration of many computer systems across an organization

True

True or False? Torts, derived from the French word for wrong, is a category in civil law, used to sue for wrong acts which may have been committed by a healthcare provider. Increase in malpractice cases have resulted in what is know as physicians practicing "defensive "medicine

True

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986, enforced by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG), require Medicare participants to receive emergency care from a hospital or medical entity that provides dedicated emergency services. Which of the following is not a component of EMTALA

Was passed as part of the ACA