RHIT Exam Prep Domain 1 Practice Questions
Health Information Management
1. What are the two purposes of data sets in healthcare?
Answer: To identify data elements to be collected about each patient and to provide uniform data
definitions to aid standardization efforts across multiple hospi...
1. What are the two purposes of data sets in healthcare?
Answer: To identify data elements to be collected about each patient and to provide uniform data
definitions to aid standardization efforts across multiple hospitals.
2. Which resource should a HIT use when designing a data collection form for an acute-care hospital?
Answer: The Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS).
3. What is a critical early step in designing an electronic health record (EHR)?
Answer: Developing a data dictionary.
4. In long-term care, what data set is used to develop a resident's care plan?
Answer: UHDDS (Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set).
5. Which characteristic is NOT typical of common healthcare data sets like UHDDS and UACDS?
Answer: They provide a framework for data collection to which an individual facility can add data items.
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