Domain 1 rhit 4 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

RHIT Domain 1 All Answers Correct Health Information Management 1. What is a core data set developed by ASTM to communicate a patient's past and current health information as the patient transitions from one care setting to another? Answer: Continuity of care record. 2. How can registration clerks ensure that they consistently use the correct notation for assigning admission date in an EHR? Answer: By providing a template for entering data in the field. 3. What should be done if...

Practice Questions for RHIT Exam: DOMAIN 6: Leadership 1. To determine the daily filing hours required for retrieving and filing records at Community Clinic, what calculation should be done? Answer: 600 clinic visits per day / 60 records per hour (filing) + 600 clinic visits per day / 40 records per hour (retrieval) = 25 hours per day. 2. What type of workflow function in an electronic information system would help support tasks that need to be performed in a specific sequence? Ans...

RHIT Mock Exam Domain 1 Coding and Classification 1. Which volume of ICD-9-CM contains the tabular and alphabetical list of procedures? Answer: Volume 3. 2. What is the correct order in which problems are organized in a problem-oriented medical record? Answer: In numeric order. 3. Where would you find a notation for a hypertensive patient's blood pressure being adequately controlled? Answer: Assessment. 4. What is an example of a problem with data consistency? Answer: The di...

RHIT Practice Questions Domain 1: #51-#61 Accreditation 1. What is the act of granting approval to a healthcare organization based on whether the organization has met a set of voluntary standards called? Answer: Accreditation. 2. Which accrediting organization has been responsible for accrediting healthcare organizations since the mid-1950s and determines whether the organization is continually monitoring and improving the quality of care provided? Answer: The Joint Commission. ...

RHIT PRACTICE EXAM DOMAIN 5 COMPLIANCE 1. What is one purpose of a physician query? Answer: To clarify conflicting documentation. 2. What is a general statement that defines the parameters for decision-making guidance on a topic? Answer: Policy. 3. What best describes the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of information in an EHR? Answer: Workflow management. 4. Where can you find information on healthcare fraud and abuse mandated by HIPAA? Answer: Healthcare inte...

RHIT PRACTICE TEST 1 DOMAIN 3- data analytics and use 1. What type of data is collected on large populations of individuals and stored in databases? Answer: Aggregate data. 2. What database is used to compare hospital-acquired urinary tract infection rates for Medicare patients with the national average? Answer: MEDPAR database. 3. What data provides the best comparison for Community Hospital's UTI rate? Answer: All individuals in the MEDPAR database except those admitted with a p...

RHIT PREP DOMAIN 1 ALREADY GRADED A+ 1. What type of patient data is used to identify an individual? a. Demographic data b. Secondary data c. Aggregate data d. Identification data Answer: a. Demographic data 2. Which of the following is a derivation business rule? a. Assigning a patient to a clinical service b. Calculating the average length of stay c. Documenting a patient's date of birth d. Taking a hospital census Answer: b. Calculating the average length of stay 3....

RHIT Exam Prep Domain 1 Practice Questions Health Information Management 1. What are the two purposes of data sets in healthcare? Answer: To identify data elements to be collected about each patient and to provide uniform data definitions to aid standardization efforts across multiple hospitals. 2. Which resource should a HIT use when designing a data collection form for an acute-care hospital? Answer: The Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS). 3. What is a critical early step i...

RHIT Domain 5 Verified Guide 1. A baby was not found in a hospital despite following all procedures, indicating a sentinel event. Answer: Yes, this is a sentinel event. 2. What is the primary goal of a corporate compliance program? To protect providers from sanctions or fines. Answer: No, the primary goal is to ensure compliance with laws and regulations. 3. What should be done to secure text messages sent by nursing staff to attending physicians? Encrypt text messages during trans...