CH 9: Electronic medical records

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of an EMR?

• electronic signatures
• avoiding meidcal errors
• patients receive info online
• takes longer to retrieve a patient chart

Handwriting that is indecipherable is:

• easy to read
• spelled incorrectly
• written in all capital letters
• impossible to read

Ideally, a physician who saves time using EMR will then

• have more time to do paperwork
• spend more time on patient care
• be able to eliminate some staff positions
• eliminate some office hours

Which of the following would NOT be included in an EMR drop down menu?

• a patient's telephone number
• a list of symptoms
• a list of diagnoses
• none of the above

How would a medical assistant use the EMR to send information about a patient to the patient’s health insurance company?

• by making a copy of the info
• directly from the EMR
• by printing the info & mailing it
• by scanning the info

A medical office might send reminder cards to patients for all of the following medical services EXCEPT:

• a mammogram
• a CPE
• a past due balance
• a colonoscopy

Written correspondence with other staff members regarding patient care should always be 

• professional
• personal
• abbreviated 
• handwritten

Which of the following events helped highlight the importance of making the conversion to the EMR a national goal?

• The terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001
• President Bush's State of the Union address in 2004
• Hurricane Katrina in September 2005
• President Obama's Health care reform activities of 2009

The first health care organization to utilize an electronic medical record was the ________.

• Boston Children's Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente
• Mayo clinic
• Blue cross

Much of the patient information contained in an EMR is ________ as the contents of a paper medical record.

• different
• the same
• more current
• more accurate