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CEHRS Review Chapter 1 HERquestions well answered to pass
Practice management (PM) programs - correct answer ✔✔perform administrative and financial
functions, such as scheduling patients' appointments, billing patients and health plans, receiving and
recording payments, and managing collections
Health information technology (HIT) - correct answer ✔✔is the use of computers and electronic
communications to manage medical information and its secure exchange
Electronic health record (EHR) - correct answer ✔✔is a computerized lifelong health care record for an
individual that incorporates data from all sources that provide treatment for the individual. EHRs have
the potential to improve the quality of health care, prevent many medical errors, and reduce health care
costs
Health informatics (also known as medical informatics) - correct answer ✔✔knowledge required to
optimize the acquisiton, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine
Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) - correct answer ✔✔protects
patients' private health information, ensures health care coverage when workers change or lose jobs,
and uncovers fraud and abuse in the health care system
Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) - correct answer ✔✔technology that enables a physician to
transmit a prescription electronically to a patient's pharmacy. The system electronically checks for drug
interactions and allergies and eliminates prescription errors caused by illegible handwriting
standards - correct answer ✔✔technical specifications for the electronic exchange of information
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) - correct answer ✔✔this program gives bonuses to
physicians when they use treatment plans and clinical guidelines that are based on scientific evidence
, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - correct answer ✔✔a $787 billion economic
stimulus bill passed in 2009 that allocates $19.2 billion to promote the use of HIT
Meaningful use - correct answer ✔✔is the utilization of certified EHR technology to improve quality,
efficiency and patient safety in health care system
Regional Extension Centers (RECs) - correct answer ✔✔centers that offer information, guidance, training
and support services to primary care providers who are in the process of making the transition to an EHR
system
Health Information Exchange (HIE) - correct answer ✔✔enables the sharing of health-related
information among provider organizations according to nationally recognized standards. HIE include
sharing patient records with physicians outside the physicians own medical group, transmitting
prescriptions to pharmacies, and ordering tests from an outside lab
National Health Information Network (NHIN) - correct answer ✔✔is a key component of the
government's HIT strategy that will provide a common platform for health information exchange across
the country. They set standards, services, and policies that enable the secure exchange of health
information over the internet
Integrated PM/EHR programs - correct answer ✔✔programs that share and exchange demographic
information, appointment schedules and clinical data. The use of integrated programs increases patient
safety, improves the quality of patient care, and reduces operating costs. Clinical and financial data are
accessed from any computer
encounter - correct answer ✔✔also known as a visit, is the meeting of a patient with a physical or other
medical professional for the purpose of providing health care
patient examination - correct answer ✔✔is the heart of the encounter. The patient is escorted to the
exam room, the MA gathers information and takes the patient's vital signs and then notifies the provider
that the patient is ready to be seen
preventative care - correct answer ✔✔includes routine annual physical examinations, immunizations,
screening tests, and behavioral counseling
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