Laboratory administration final exam

A normal healthy newborn's Apgar score would be:

2

What requirements are needed for an individual to obtain the RHIA credential?

Bachelor's degree and pass the RHIA exam

The Hill-Burton Act requires hospitals to provide care for patients for free or at a reduced rate in exchange for:

Funding for the modernization of hospitals or for building new ones

HITECH is the acronym for:

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act

As of fall 2014, coding staff was using what version of ICD-CM to code patient records?

ICD-9-CM

Health information professionals, previously known as "record librarians," were first organized where?

Massachusetts general hospital

Health informatics programs are generally offered and accredited at what level?

Master's

Before making an appointment for inclusion in a local sleep laboratory, John Doe decides to more effectively track his own sleep habits. The most efficient way to collect data for him would be the use of:

a wearable device that would record his quality of sleep

A healthcare facility that has been granted approval based on a set of voluntary standards is known as:

accredited

A network of providers that share financial and clinical responsibility to coordinate care of their assigned patients led by one primary care physician is known as a(n):

affordable care act group

Sarah Jones is an awake and alert emergency room patient in the city where her children live, away from her home community hospital. She is currently a cancer patient at a tertiary care facility. A speedy option for obtaining her medical history from either of these facilities would be the use of:

all of the above

A data integrity coordinator is a nontraditional role in HIM. What task(s) might that person be required to do?

all of these

A healthcare professional who converts recorded dictation into typed format is known as a(n):

coder

ADT plays an important role in Meaningful Use in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

commonly exchanged information supports transition in care.

A patient was admitted to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. The EMS responders hand off initial information about the patient's vitals to go in her health record. The nurse then updates and adds further information after an initial battery of tests. The doctor then includes pre-operative and post-operative reports. At this point in the healthcare process, what is the health record called?

concurrent

A coding professional enters the appropriate code assignments for diagnoses and procedures, the patient's age, and the dates of admission and discharge in order to calculate and assign a reimbursement for hospital inpatients under this process:

encoding

A project "goes live" during which step in the project management process?

executing the project

A set of questions asked of a patient regarding symptoms he or she may be having is known as a:

history of present illness

A transcriptionist who is using an EHR would typically look for what type(s) of error(s)?

incomplete or missing documentation or words that voice technology may not recognize

A set of regulations that hospitals and providers must meet in order to be eligible to receive reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid is:

medicare licensure

dicine was not considered an actual "profession" until the:

mid 19th century

Accreditation is:

obligatory

A listing of guarantees that a patient should expect such as the right to privacy, the right to make his/her own medical decisions, the right to refuse treatment, and the right to be treated fairly is known as:

patient rights

What does PHI mean according to HIPAA?

protected health information

A written plan that states the length of time a healthcare facility retains its health records is called a(n):

record retention plan

What type of care is covered and reimbursed by Medicare?

skilled care