HIT 120 R eview Exam Questions With Verified Solutions autonomy - answer✔✔A core ethical principle centered on the individual's right to self -
determination that includes respect for the individual; in clinical applications, the patient's right to determi ne what does or does not happen to him or her in terms of healthcare beneficence - answer✔✔a legal term that means promoting good for others or providing services that benefit others, such as releasing health information that will help a patient receive ca re or will ensure payment for services received bias - answer✔✔Favoritism, partiality, or prejudice blanket authorization - answer✔✔The patient signs an authorization allowing the release of information specialist to release any and all information from th at point forward breach - answer✔✔Under HITECH, the acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of protected health information in a manner not permitted under subpart E of this part that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health information (45 CFR 164.402 2013) code of ethics - answer✔✔A statement of ethical principles regarding business practices and professional behavior confidentiality - answer✔✔1. A legal and ethical concept that establishes the healthcare provider's responsibility for p rotecting health records and other personal and private information from unauthorized use or disclosure 2. As amended by HITECH, the practice that data or information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized persons or processes (45 CFR 164.304 2 013) culture - answer✔✔The values, beliefs, attitudes, languages, symbols, rituals, behaviors, and customs unique to a particular group of people cultural audit - answer✔✔A strategy to define an organization's values, symbols, and routines and identify are as for improvement cultural competence - answer✔✔Skilled in awareness, understanding, and acceptance of beliefs and values of the people of groups other than one's own cultural diversity - answer✔✔The perceived or actual difference among people double billing - answer✔✔occurs when two providers bill for one service provided to one patient ethical principles - answer✔✔Concepts such as altruism, beneficence, consequentialism, deontology, egoism, least harm, and utilitarianism, upon which ethical de cisions are made ethics - answer✔✔A field of study that deals with moral principles, theories, and values; in healthcare, a formal decision -making process for dealing with the competing perspectives and obligations of the people who have an interest in a c ommon problem ethics committee - answer✔✔A committee tasked with reviewing clinical ethics violations to determine the course of action required to remedy the violations integrity - answer✔✔1. The state of being whole or unimpaired 2. The ability of data t o maintain its structure and attributes, including protection against modification or corruption during transmission, storage, or at rest. Maintenance of data integrity is a key aspect of data quality management and security leadership - answer✔✔Visionary thinking, decisions responsive to membership and mission, and accountability for actions and outcomes managed cared - answer✔✔1. Payment method in which the third -party payer has implemented some provisions to control the costs of healthcare while maintain ing quality care 2. Systematic merger of clinical, financial, and administrative processes to manage access, cost, and quality of healthcare medical identity theft - answer✔✔The fraudulent use of an individual's identifying information in a healthcare sett ing moral values - answer✔✔A system of principles by which one guides one's life, usually with regard to right or wrong need to know principle - answer✔✔The release -of-information principle based on the minimum necessary standard nonmaleficence - answer✔✔A legal principle that means "first do no harm" prejudice - answer✔✔Occurs when a person is judged solely based on cultural factors such as ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or such privacy - answer✔✔The quality or state of being hidden from, or undisturbed by, the observation or activities of other persons, or freedom from unauthorized intrusion; in healthcare -related contexts, the right of a patient to control disclosure of protected health information quality - answer✔✔The degree or gr ade of excellence of goods or services, including, in healthcare, meeting expectations for outcomes of care respect - answer✔✔Appreciation of the value of differing perspectives, enjoyable experiences, courteous interaction, and celebration of achievements that advance our common cause retrospective documentation - answer✔✔Healthcare providers add documentation after care has been given, possibly for the purpose of increasing reimbursement or avoiding a medical legal action security - answer✔✔1. The means t o control access and protect information from accidental or intentional disclosure to unauthorized persons and from unauthorized alteration, destruction, or loss 2. The physical protection of facilities and equipment from theft, damage, or unauthorized access; collectively, the policies, procedures, and safeguards designed to protect the confidentiality of information, maintain the integrity and availability of information systems, and control access to the content of these systems stereotyping - answer✔✔An assumption that everyone within a certain group are the same unbundling - answer✔✔The practice of using multiple codes to bill for the various individual steps in a single procedure rather than using a single code that includes all of the steps of the comprehensive procedure upcoding - answer✔✔The practice of assigning diagnostic or procedural codes that represent higher payment rates than the codes that actually reflect the services provided to patients values - answer✔✔The social and cultural belief syst em of a person or a healthcare organization clinical data analytics - answer✔✔The process by which health information is captured, reviewed, and used to measure quality clinical data repository (CDR) - answer✔✔A central database that focuses on clinical information clinical data warehouse (CDW) - answer✔✔A database that makes it possible to access data from multiple databases and combine the results into a single query and reporting interface clinical decision support system (CDSS) - answer✔✔CDS that requir es the combination of data from more than one sources and the ability to deliver the alert back to the appropriate system or systems dashboard - answer✔✔Reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to assist with strategic planning database - answer✔✔An organized collection of data, text, references, or pictures in a standardized format, typically stored in a computer system for multiple applications data abstraction - answer✔✔The identification of data elements by an individual through healt h record review data analytics - answer✔✔The science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information. It includes data mining, machine language, development of models, and statistical measurements. Analytics can be desc riptive, predictive, or prescriptive data capture - answer✔✔The process of recording healthcare -related data in a health record system or clinical database data mining - answer✔✔The process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships or patterns and using those relationships to predict behaviors decision support sys tem - answer✔✔A computer -based system that gathers data from a variety of sources and assists in providing structure to the data by using various analytical models and visual tools in order to facilitate and improve the ultimate outcome in decision -making tasks associated with nonroutine and nonrepetitive problems discrete data - answer✔✔Data that represent separate and distinct values or observations; that is, data that contain only finite numbers and have only specified values eHealth exchange - answer✔✔A group of federal agencies and non -federal organizations that came together under a common mission and purpose to improve patient care, streamline disability benefit claims, and improve public health reporting through secure, trusted, and interoperable hea lth information exchange. Participating organizations mutually agree to support a common set of standards and specifications that enable the establishment of a secure, trusted, and interoperable connection among all participating Exchange organizations for the standardized flow of information executive information system - answer✔✔A system that facilitates and supports senior managerial decisions healthcare data analytics - answer✔✔The practice of using data to make business decisions in healthcare health i nformatics - answer✔✔The field of information science concerned with the management of all aspects of health data and information through the application of computers and computer technologies health information exchange (HIE) - answer✔✔The exchange of he alth information electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability, such as labs and pharmacies key indicator - answer✔✔A quantifiable measure used over time to determine whether some structure, process, or outcome in the provision of care to a patient supports high -quality performance measured against best practice criteria natural language processing (NLPP - answer✔✔A technology that converts human language (structured or unstructured) into data that can be translated th en manipulated by computer systems; branch of artificial intelligence
