CAHIMS Unit 7 Health Computing Q&A

CAHIMS Unit 7 Health Computing Q&A ______primary areas of focus include translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics. - ANS-American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Which of the following professional association chapter meetings would medical coders be likely to attend? AHIMA AMIA HIMSS - ANS-AHIMA American Health Information Management Association If you want to find current information on mobile health, which of the following professional association sites would you visit first? AHIMA AMIA HIMSS - ANS-HIMSS Which of the following best describes clinical informatics? -A broad concept that encompasses an array of technologies to store, share, and analyze health information - Survey and distillation of clinical research - The intersection of genomics and computer science -A combination of biomedical informatics, information technology, healthcare, and computer science to organize medical data for easy access and use by healthcare providers - ANS-A combination of biomedical informatics, information technology, healthcare, and computer science to organize medical data for easy access and use by healthcare providers Which of the following is not a benefit of telemedicine? Patients with conditions that require specialized care, whose region does not have these specialists, can receive care virtually. The quality of healthcare provided via telemedicine is usually superior to that provided through conventional office visits. Telemedicine offers patients with chronic conditions a convenient way to manage their condition effectively. Having this option can help prevent deterioration of a patient's health. Patients can avoid travel costs. Patients in rural areas that have a shortage of primary care physicians can obtain care. - ANS-The quality of healthcare provided via telemedicine is usually superior to that provided through conventional office visits. True or false? CMS, through the HITECH Act, provides sizable financial remunerations to physicians and other eligible providers for implementing EHR systems and meeting certain standards referred to as meaningful use criteria. True False - ANS-true Which of the following are ethical uses of health data accessed through HIT applications? A cancer research center shares anonymized data from its patients with another cancer research institute. A nurse on the phone, within earshot of patients in a waiting room, says, "Hi, Mrs. Jones. Your pregnancy test came back negative." An employee at a healthcare organization looks at the record of a patient he knows socially, even though he is not that patient's medical provider. A genetics testing company provides information about clients to an insurance company. - ANS-A cancer research center shares anonymized data from its patients with another cancer research institute. True or false? Third-party payers can influence EHR implementations by offering financial bonuses for improved performance, the documentation of which typically requires an EHR system. -Continues...