Exam 4: Data Quality and Management

A pharmacy collects information on new customers, including whether the customer owns or rents a home. The pharmacy does not require this data and never uses it to make decisions. Based on data quality characteristics, this data:

Why do HIM professionals look for duplicate medical record numbers of the same patient and merge them?

Healthy People is a _______________ program that compiles data on indicators of health.

A certain medication dosage is determined by the patient's weight, but it has been two months since the last time the patient was weighed at the office. The provider will not use the old data because it is not

The assignment of physicians to cases-attending, consultants, and surgeons-is called _____________.

Which is an example of protected health information (PHI)?

The __________ rate refers to how often disease occurs within a population.

A facility may use health information for _______________, the promotion of its services, to patients who have opted in.

Which statement about making corrections in the health record is true?

The Joint Commission (TJC) considers incomplete acute care records delinquent

The medical assistant logs into the health record, but she cannot update the patient's tobacco use because she is not assigned the proper user role. Which data quality characteristic is lacking?

Melissa had back surgery six months ago, and is still having some pain. Which situation would require her to sign a release of information (ROI) form?

Which statement is true about the use of the Internet in the health care setting?

While the patients are sleeping, nurses on the night shift review the charts of current inpatients to make sure certain elements are properly recorded. This is a ____________ internal control.

In the electronic environment, workflow describes how the electronic record moves from one __________ to another.

The process of documentation into an electronic record is called:

Why is concurrent coding beneficial?

Which is an example of health information being used by facility administration?

The HIM professional offers a data dictionary to all the collectors and users of the database, so that everyone knows what a given field represents and how to collect and record those data. The data quality characteristic being illustrated is data

The set of procedures by which paper portions of the record are ordered for scanning or further processing is