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