RHIA Mock Exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
The Contingency Plan Standard includes all of the following as required implementation
standards except for which plan?
A. Data backup plan
B. Disaster recovery plan
C. Emergency mode operation plan
D. Environmental risk plan - ✔️✔️D. Environmental risk plan
Medical identity theft includes all of the following except use of another person's:
A. Name to obtain durable medical equipment
B. Insurance policy number to undergo reconstructive surgery
C. Financial information to purchase expensive handbags
D. Identity to falsify claims for medical services - ✔️✔️C. Financial information to purchase
expensive handbags
Which of the following is an example of a 1:M relationship?
A. Patients to consulting physicians
B. Patients to hospital admissions
C. Patients to hospital health records
D. Primary care physicians to patients - ✔️✔️B. Patients to hospital admissions
When an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is implemented as a relational database, an
attribute will become a(n):
A. Field
B. Object
C. Query
D. Table - ✔️✔️A. Field
What is the term for the record of care in any health-related setting that is used by healthcare
professionals while providing patient-care services or for administrative, business, or payment
purposes?
A. Minimum data record
B. Legal health record
C. Mixed-media health record
D. Electronic health record - ✔️✔️B. Legal health record
Highland Hospital requires all dates be recorded in its clinical information system as
MM/DD/YYYY. This required data definition and format should be part of the________.
A. data dictionary
B. database administration system
C. decision support system
D. tacit information system - ✔️✔️A. data dictionary
How does mentoring differ from coaching as a career development practice?
A. Offers specific job-related training
B. Reviews the work of the employee
C. Most often performed by a senior employee
D. Involves performance appraisal - ✔️✔️C. Most often performed by a senior employee
The technology that allows a healthcare organization to logically (or conceptually) link multiple
physical data repositories is:
A. MPI
B. OLAP
C. OLTP
D. EMPI - ✔️✔️C. OLTP
A visitor to the hospital looks at the screen of the admitting clerk's computer workstation when
the clerk leaves her desk to copy some documents. What security mechanism would best have
minimized this security breach?
A. access controls
B. audit controls
C. automatic log off controls
D. device and media controls - ✔️✔️C. automatic log off controls
What work measurement tool uses random sample observations to obtain information about the
performance of an entire department?
A. Performance measurement
B. Work distribution
C. Work sampling
D. Performance controls - ✔️✔️C. Work sampling
An employee in the physical therapy department arrives early every morning to snoop through
the clinical information system for potential information about neighbors and friends. What
security mechanisms should have been implemented that could minimize this security breach?
A. Audit controls
B. Information access controls
C. Facility access controls
D. Workstation security - ✔️✔️B. Information access controls
The primary goals of which of the following groups are to enable health information to follow
the consumer, to make health information available for clinical decision making, and to support
appropriate use of healthcare information beyond direct patient care?
A. EHR Collaborative
B. Health level 7
C. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
D. National Health Information Network - ✔️✔️D. National Health Information Network
Which of the following fields of informatics largely focuses on developing tools and processes to
empower patients?
A. consumer
B. health
C. medical
D. nursing - ✔️✔️A. consumer
What project management tool focuses on the percentage completion of a task but does not show
a link between one or more tasks?
A. PERT chart
B. project management
C. planning and design
D. Gantt - ✔️✔️D. Gantt
An 80-year-old female is admitted with fever, lethargy, hypotension, tachycardia, oliguria, and
elevated WBC. The patient has more than 100,000 organisms of Escherichia coli per cc of urine.
The attending physician documents "urosepsis." How should the coder proceed to code this case?
A. Code sepsis as the principal diagnosis with urinary tract infection due to E. coli as secondary
diagnosis.
B. Code urinary tract infection with sepsis as the principal diagnosis.
C. Query the physician to ask if the patient has septicemia because of the symptomatology.
D. Query the physician to ask if the patient had septic shock so that this may be used as the
principal diagnosis. - ✔️✔️C. Query the physician to ask if the patient has septicemia because of
the symptomatology.
Allowing patterns of retrospective documentation, hiding or ignoring negative quality review
outcomes, and hiding incomplete health records from accreditation surveyors are unethical
behaviors for which of the following Code of Ethics principle?
A. Advocate and uphold the right to privacy
B. Put service before self-interest
C. Represent the profession accurately to the public
D. Respect the inherent dignity and worth of every person - ✔️✔️B. Put service before self-
interest
The health information manager is conducting a patient satisfaction survey in an outpatient
clinic. Because the clinic typically sees about 300 people per day, the manager decides to have
the interviewers administer the questionnaire on every tenth patient. This is an example of what
type of sampling:
A. cluster sampling
B. convenience sampling
C. stratified sampling
D. systematic sampling - ✔️✔️D. systematic sampling
The director of Health Information Services is allowed access to the health record tracking
system when providing the proper login and password. Under what kind of access security
mechanism is the director allowed access to the system?
A. Context-based
B. Role-based
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