The surgery department is evaluating its postoperative infection rate of 6%. The chief of surgery asks the quality improvement coordinator to find the post-operation infection rates of 10 similar hospitals in the same geographic region to see how the rates compare. This process is called:

Which of the following are phases of the system development life cycle (SDLC)?

Which of the following is an example of a clinical information system?

What is the term for health records maintained by patients or their families?

A hospital uses the copy functionality in its EHR system for documentation purposes. The hospital has established explicit policies that define when the copy function may be used. Which of the following would be the best approach for conducting a retrospective analysis to determine if hospital copy policies are being followed?

How long should the master patient index be maintained?

A technique that describes an interaction between a user and a system is call a(n):

A current key function in the health information field whereby data is turned into useful information is:

What term is used for a centralized database that captures, sorts, and processes patient data and then sends it back to the user?

Dr. Jones comes into the HIM department and requests that the HIM director pull all of his records from the previous year in the which the principal diagnosis of myocardial infarction was indicated. Where would the HIM director begin to pull these records?

In analyzing the reason for changes in hospital's Medicare case-mix index over time, the analyst should start with which of the following levels of detail?

A healthcare entity remains committed to purchasing a vendor's product, which the entity finds solid in its financial and administrative applications but weaker in clinical applications. What is the term for this strategy?

The HIM director is on the design team for the CPOE system. During a user interface design session, a sample of the electronic system is demonstrated. Two of the physicians are concerned about the overuse of alerts. What problem could the alert feature pose in the new system?

In which phase of the systems development life cycle does initial training on a new information system generally occur?

Identifying user information needs is part of which phase of the systems development life cycle?

In which type of health information exchange architectural model does the entity operate much like an application service provider (ASP) or bank vault?

Which index, often considered the most important resource in a healthcare facility, is a database of patients within the facility or associated group of facilities?

Which of the following basic services provided by a health information exchange(HIE) entity matches identifying information to an individual?

Dictated and transcribed reports and notes written by the physicians and other practitioners are examples of:

Allowing different health information systems to work together within and across organizational boundaries is referred to as:

One strategy for acquiring EHR components from various and interfacing them is

The EHR implementation strategy stops its paper processing immediately after the go-live of the system.

Mary Smith, RHIA, director of HIM at Central Hospital is in the process of training staff and employees on the move from a paper record to an electronic record. As she continues this transition, what health record format would most likely be used?

A secure method of communication between the healthcare provider and the patient is: