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Study Tools to Pass the CEHRS Examcorrectly answered to pass
2004 - correct answer ✔✔President Bush recommended the use of Health Information Technology (HIT)
and set a 10 year goal for all Americans to be using Electronic Health Records (EHR)
HIPAA act of 1996 - correct answer ✔✔The HIPPA act of 1996 was designed to protect a patients private
health information ensure health care coverage when workers lost or changed their jobs and uncover
fraud or abuse in the health care system. HIPAA requires the use of electronic rather than paper
insurance claims
The Institute of Medicine - correct answer ✔✔Suggests that an EHR should include 8 core elements.
1. Health Information and Data Elements
2. Results Management
3. Order Management
4. Decision Support
5. Electronic communications and Connectivity
6. Patient Support
7. Administrative Process
8. Reporting and Population Management
Electronic Medical Records (EHR) - correct answer ✔✔Computerized records of one physician's
encounter with a patient over time.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - correct answer ✔✔a computerized lifelong health care record for an
individual that incorporates data from providers who treat the individual.
Personal Health Record (PHR) - correct answer ✔✔Maintained and owned by the patient. Information
sheet that contain the individual's medical history, including diagnoses, symptoms, and medications
, Acute Care - correct answer ✔✔Most often refers to a Hospital, treats patients with urgent problems.
Ambulatory Care - correct answer ✔✔Another term for outpatient care
Advantages of Electronic Health Records - correct answer ✔✔* Safety
* Quality of Care
* Efficiency
* Cost Reduction
Total Conversion - correct answer ✔✔may be costly; allows all patient data to be converted at once
while office still sees patients
Incremental Conversion - correct answer ✔✔gradual change to EHR, lower cost, smoother transition and
less impact on office, however paper is still used and not all patient data available
Hybrid Conversion - correct answer ✔✔uses combination of paper and electronic forms of data
Clinical Vocbularies - correct answer ✔✔Set of common definitions for medical terms they ease
commincation by decreasing ambiguity
SNOMED-CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) - correct answer ✔✔Clinical
Vocabulary disigned to encompass all terms used in medicine
LOINC (logical observation identifier names and codes) - correct answer ✔✔Terms and codes used for
electronic exchange of lab results and clinical observations.
UMLS (Unified Medical Language System. - correct answer ✔✔Thesaurus database of medical terms.
ICD-9 & ICD-10 - correct answer ✔✔international classification of diseases developed by the World
Health Orgnanization (WHO)
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