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Health IT Security and Privacy
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Health IT Security and Privacy explores the critical principles and practices for
safeguarding sensitive health information in a digital environment. The course
addresses regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, technical standards for data
protection, and strategies for ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of
electronic health records (EHRs). Students will examine real-world case studies involving
security breaches, learn about risk assessment methods, and discuss technologies such
as encryption, access control, and audit trails. The course also emphasizes the ethical
and legal implications of privacy in healthcare settings and prepares students to identify
and mitigate emerging security threats in health information technology systems.
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Health Information Technology 3rd Edition by Nadinia A. Davis
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Chapter 1: Health Care Delivery Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a diagnosis?
A) Tonsillitis
B) Appendectomy
C) Chest x-ray
D) Physical therapy
Answer: A
Q2) Care that is consistent while a patient is receiving care from multiple medical
specialties is called:
A) Care plan
B) Integrated delivery
C) Continuum of care
D) None of the above
Answer: C
Q3) _________ focuses on treating patients where they reside.
Answer: Home health care
Q4) Voluntary compliance with a set of standards developed by an independent agency
is part of the _________ process.
Answer: accreditation
Q5) Health care professionals must adhere to their discipline's ____________.
Answer: code of ethics
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Chapter 2: Collecting Health Care Data
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Q1) Data collected for the purpose of patient identification is ________ data.
Answer: demographic
Q2) A collection or series of related characters is a ________.
Answer: field
Q3) How does the quantity of health data affect our understanding of what it contains?
Answer: Voluminous data are virtually impossible to understand unless they are put in
some context, summarized, or otherwise organized. Before data become meaningful,
that is, before they become information, they must be sorted, categorized, labeled, and
analyzed.
Q4) Public health data collected through birth certificates, death certificates, and other
data gathering tools are called _______ statistics.
Answer: vital
Q5) The integrated record is organized by:
A) Source
B) Date
C) Alphabetical order
D) Numerical order
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Electronic Health Records
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Q1) A method used to identify records in an electronic system is called __________.
Answer: indexing
Q2) An organization that stores patient records electronically for which an affiliated
health care entity treating a patient can gain access is called:
A) CPOE
B) HIE
C) EDMS
D) CDA
Answer: B
Q3) Two independent systems configured to communicate with each other are known to
be _________.
Answer: interfaced
Q4) The greatest obstacle to convert to an EHR system is:
A) Employee dissatisfaction
B) Start-up costs
C) Space for unit
D) Patient dissatisfaction
Answer: B
Q5) The result of a patient's treatment is called the ___________.
Answer: outcome
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Chapter 4: Acute Care Records
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Q1) All of the following are typical elements of an inpatient admission record EXCEPT:
A) Home telephone number
B) Religion
C) Insurance carrier, if any
D) Vital signs
Q2) Which of the following would NOT be found on an admission record or face sheet?
A) admitting diagnosis
B) patient name
C) nursing progress notes
D) attending physician
Q3) All of the following are elements of the UHDDS EXCEPT:
A) Date of birth
B) Gender
C) Religion
D) Discharge date
Q4) If a health care professional is working under the supervision of another, such as a
resident being supervised by an attending physician, then the notes written by that
professional must be _________________ by the supervisor.
Q5) What are essential elements in the operative report? List at least five.
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Chapter 5: Health Information Management Processing
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Q1) A computer can create a log of processing and access activities called an
________.
Q2) Important topics to include in staff training on HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) How to guard against threats of computer viruses or hackers and where to report
suspicious activity
B) Management of passwords: how often they will change and sanctions for sharing
passwords
C) Ways to bypass automatic log-offs so users do not have to enter their password at a
terminal
D) Education on how to dispose of protected health information (PHI) information on
paper or electronic media such as optical disks
Q3) ___________ procedures govern the storage of records, including duration,
location, security, and access.
Q4) List and define the data quality characteristics that were discussed in the text.
Q5) What is the purpose of a discharge register? How is it used in postdischarge
processing? How else could it be used?
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Chapter 6: Code Sets
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Q1) Because the patient record is a highly personal document, and therefore must be
treated respectfully with regard to the coded data assigned, AHIMA has issued which of
the following guidelines?
A) HIPAA Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting
B) Standards of Ethical Coding
C) standards for code sets
D) Federal Register
Q2) A group of like data elements compiled to provide information about the group is
called ___________.
Q3) HCPCS is composed of Level I and Level II codes; the differences between the two
levels are:
A) Level I codes are used to report outpatient procedures and services, whereas Level II
codes are used to report products, supplies, and services not included in Level I.
B) Level I codes are maintained by the AMA, whereas Level II codes are developed by
hospitals as part of their chargemaster.
C) Level I codes are submitted separately from Level II codes for reimbursement.
D) Insurance companies need Level II codes to process claims; insurers do not process
Level I codes.
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Chapter 7: Reimbursement
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Q1) The coordination of the patient's care and services, including reimbursement
considerations, is characteristic of ___________.
Q2) Title XVIII is the amendment to the Social Security Act that established:
A) Medicare
B) Medicaid
C) Capitation
D) The prospective payment system
Q3) A contractor who manages health care claims for Medicare is a:
A) Blue Cross/Blue Shield organization
B) Fiscal intermediary
C) Medicare PPO
D) Wrap-around policy
Q4) The systematic reimbursement to a health care provider based on the number of
patients contractually in the physician's care, regardless of diagnoses or services
rendered, is called ___________.
Q5) The blending of the insurance and provider roles in health care delivery is
characteristic of _________.
Q6) Insurance policies that supplement Medicare coverage are called _________.
Q7) Payments calculated based on the number of days are called ____________.
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Chapter 8: Health Information Management Issues in Other
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Q1) The prioritization of patients presenting for treatment in an emergency department is
determined by:
A) Patient's condition upon arrival
B) Encounter
C) Arrival time
D) Appointment time
Q2) Ambulatory care accreditation is offered by TJC and:
A) AAAHC
B) AARP
C) CHAP
D) NCIPC
Q3) An operation performed on an outpatient basis is called _________.
Q4) Patients requiring care who are unable to make an appointment with their primary
care physicians should visit the:
A) Emergency department
B) Urgent care center
C) Hospital
D) Wait for the physician to be available
Q5) In emergency services, the systemPage 10
of prioritizing patients by severity of illness is
called __________.
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Chapter 9: Managing Health Records
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Q1) List and describe the different filing methods for the physical file/health record.
Q2) Shelley is the new health information management file room supervisor at Diamonte
Hospital. Upon entering the file room she notices that the files are cramped and there is
no room on the shelves to file any new charts. Shelley determines that it is critically
necessary to order additional shelving to increase the file shelf space to store all of
Diamonte's records. The facility has approximately 3,000 discharges each year. They
keep 2 years of paper records on site. The average thickness of a record is 1 inch. They
currently have 10 shelving units and each unit has five shelves and is 36 inches wide.
How many additional filing units should Shelley order?
A) 24
B) 23
C) 34
D) 33
Q3) An ____________ is capable of searching scanned or digitized paper records
using index fields.
Q4) ______________ is a method for planning and preparing to handle catastrophes
and other emergencies that can adversely affect the normal performance of the health
care environment.
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Chapter 10: Statistics
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Q1) The length of stay for Patient E is _______________.
Q2) Of 15000 discharges last year, Medicare was the primary payer for 6000 patients.
Medicare made up what percentage of this hospital's payer mix?
A) 4%
B) 55%
C) 60%
D) 40%
Q3) _______________ is a method of sampling a population so that all cases have
an equal chance of being selected.
Q4) Identify information that must be reported by a health care facility to the
Department of Vital Statistics.
Q5) Primary data is originally reported or recorded by:
A) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
B) researchers at teaching hospitals
C) HIM employees reviewing the record
D) clinicians treating the patient
Q6) Explain the difference between a population and a sample.
Q7) Margaret Lorraine was admitted to the hospital on March 17 and discharged on April
5. What is her length of stay?
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Chapter 11: Quality and Uses of Health Information
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Q1) Ensuring the documentation in a health record is complete is part of:
A) Quantitative analysis
B) Qualitative analysis
C) Utilization review
D) Case management
Q2) A quality improvement effort regarding scanning of loose reports would require an
___________ team.
Q3) Ensuring that data is collected the same way each time it is collected is an example
of:
A) Data precision
B) Data consistency
C) Data currency
D) Data Timeliness
Q4) The number of existing cancer cases reported by the tumor registry is known as
_______.
Q5) Monitoring functions for compliance within set standards is called __________,
which also requires action to correct noncompliance, and followup on the correction.
Q6) Physicians may perform _______ to determine the cause or best treatment for a
particular disease.
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Chapter 12: Confidentiality and Compliance
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Q1) The right or responsibility to make legal decisions for someone else as a result of a
legal document is ______________.
Q2) A _______________ is a facility-wide system of policies, procedures, and
guidelines that help to ensure ethical business practices.
Q3) _________ is consideration of a patient as an adult even though the patient is
younger than the statutory age.
Q4) What is jurisdiction? List examples of issues over which municipal, state, and federal
courts may have jurisdiction.
Q5) List two types of "sensitive" records. Describe what type(s) of additional controls
should be in place to manage these records.
Q6) The period in which lawyers are preparing their case and obtaining documents and
testimonies is called ______________.
Q7) The Privacy Rule addresses the uses and disclosure of _______ information.
A) Protected health
B) Confidential
C) Private
D) Secure
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Chapter 13: Him Department Management
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Q1) ____________ is the amount of work produced by an employee in a given time
frame.
Q2) The process used to identify, investigate, design, select, and implement the
information system is called the _______________.
Q3) The human resources department handles the following responsibilities EXCEPT:
A) maintaining personnel records
B) handling employee conduct problems
C) organizing department workflow
D) terminating employees
Q4) What are all of the steps of the SDLC? Which step would include testing out the
system? Which step would include determining what the system needs to accomplish?
Q5) The department within the health care organization that provides guidance for
employee management is the:
A) HIM department
B) Human resources department
C) Material management
D) Operations management
Q6) Under what circumstances will a health care facility outsource an HIM function?
Q7) Explain the employee evaluation process.
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Chapter 14: Training and Development
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Q1) All of the following are leadership qualities EXCEPT:
A) Delegate responsibilities
B) Encourage continuous improvement
C) Maintain a "closed door" policy
D) Lead by example
Q2) What qualities do successful teams have? Name at least three qualities.
Q3) Which of the following is used as a guide to prepare meeting minutes?
A) Employee evaluations
B) Meeting agenda
C) Job description
D) Memorandum
Q4) What are the different methods of earning AHIMA-approved continuing education
credits to maintain the credential?
Q5) A written/typed communication tool used to communicate or provide information to
members of an organization is a ___________.
Q6) Why is communication essential to an HIM department? With which stakeholders do
HIM professionals need to communication regularly?
Q7) An ______ is used to organize the topics to be discussed during a meeting.
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Q8) ___________ provides documentation 16 the message intended for the recipient.
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