WorksheetsNHA CEHRS Quiz 1: Nonclinical Operations
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following information about a patient should an EHR specialist match with the patient's name to verify the patient's identity before entering information into the EHR?
Medical Record Number
Diagnosis
Room Number
Provider Name
During a pediatric clinic visit, a patient's parent tells a staff member that the family has recently moved. Which of the following sections of the EHR should an EHR specialist update with the new address?
Legal
Financial
Administrative
Clinical
In which of the following areas of the EHR should a patient's progress notes be recorded?
Legal
Clinical
Financial
Administrative
When generating admission documentation for a patient, which of the following information should be entered into the EHR under the administrative section?
Consent Form
Medication List
Insurance Provider
Emergency Contact
What type of data should an EHR specialist reference to determine which patients are covered by a specific insurance carrier?
Clinical
Administrative
Financial
Legal
An EHR specialist has obtained medical records from an institutional database, and the data needs to be integrated into the patent's EHR. Which of the following information should the EHR specialist use to identify the patient before integrating the data?
Allergy List
Place of Birth
Mother's Maiden Name
Date of Birth
A patient brings a copy of a recent hematology result to their first visit with an oncologist and gives the document to an EHR specialist. Which of the following actions should the EHR specialist take?
Place the document on the provider's desk for review.
Ask the patient to request the laboratory fax the results for verification.
Inform the patient that the provider will be performing a repeat hematology test.
Scan the document into the patient's EHR.
A marketing department receives records for marketing purposes from an EHR specialist. Which of the following information should the EHR specialist de-identified on the documents before releasing them to the marketing department?
Patient Ethnicities
Patient Zip Codes
Patient Diagnoses
Patient Medical Record Numbers
Which of the following actions ensures that a digital image imported from a fax machine with scanning capabilities is linked to the correct patient's EHR?
Importing the Image
Cataloging the Image
De-identifying the Image
Downloading the Image
An EHR specialist is assisting with moving a provider's office into a new building. To which portion of the Device and Media Controls standard is the EHR specialist adhering when creating a record of hardware and media to move?
Disposal
Media Reuse
Accountability
Data Backup and Storage
Which of the following would be helpful to a health care organization when initiating inventory tracking of e-signature pads?
National Provider Identity (NPI)
Source-oriented Record
Unified Medical Language
Universal Medical Device Nomenclature (UMDN)
An office manager needs to ensure schedulers are aware of a provider's vacation days to avoid errors in patient scheduling and disruption of the workflow. Which of the following actions should the office manager take?
Notify the staff of the provider's projected vacation days by email.
Inform the schedulers of the change during the weekly staff meeting.
Record the provider's vacation days on the schedule as nonpatient appointments.
Place a note listing the dates of the provider's vacation on the schedulers' calendars.
Which of the following functions can an EHR specialist perform while in a typical electronic scheduling module?
Sending diagnostic test results to a patient.
Transferring patient charges to the billing section.
Rescheduling patient appointments to a different day.
Notifying the provider of patient arrivals to the examination room.
An EHR specialist is training a newly hired staff member when a patient who is receiving inpatient care dies. Which of the following terms should the EHR specialist tell the staff member to enter into the patient's EHR for discharge disposition?
Dead
Expired
No Signs of Life
Breathing Absent
An auditor is reviewing the medical record of an adult patient who is 6 feet tall and has a diagnosis of obesity, Which of the following notes in the patient's EHR would constitute a data discrepancy?
"Patient has a good appetite."
"Patient has a poor appetite."
"Patient height is 72 inches."
"Patient weight is 56.7 kg (125 lb)."
An EHR specialist receives a patient prescription stating, "Give Aspirin 81 mg PO QD." An EHR specialist confirms the prescription with the provider and reconciles the information to read as which of the following in the patient's medical record?
Aspirin 81 mg PO daily
Aspirin 0.081 g PO QD
Aspirin 81 mg per os QD
Aspirin .81 g by mouth QD
An EHR specialist notes that a patient has a different medical record number in the EHR than the organization's administrative database. Which of the following actions should the EHR specialist take?
Report the discrepancy to a supervisor.
Change the number in the EHR system.
Request an external audit.
Recognize this as a normal occurrence.
An EHR specialist is explaining to a patient about the process for accessing the patient portal. The EHR specialist should instruct the patient to use the provided username and which of the following other items to gain entry into the portal?
Date of Birth
Access Code
Complete Name
Social Security Number
An EHR specialist answers a query originating from the patient portal that states, "Where can I find the outstanding balance I owe for my surgery?" To which of the following sections within the patient portal should the EHR specialist direct the patient?
Billing
Messages
Preferences
Administrative Information
Which of the following methods should an organization use to disseminate new information to staff members about changes to implement due to an upgrade to the EHR general compliance software?
Administering a written test to staff members.
Conducting a training session for staff members.
Asking staff members to spread the new information among the team.
Placing informational brochures in break rooms.
