Deck 9: Health Care Data

Question 1

Healthcare is 10% of the value of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Healthcare data growth is the single largest sector contributor to the universe of worldwide data.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

HIPAA, passed by Congress in 1996 requires which compliance item?

A) Auditability
B) Limits on word sizing of medical terminology (12 characters)
C) Complete integration of all EHRs by medical organizations in a given community
D) Storage of a patient's EHR for 3 years

Answer 3

A, C, D

Question 4

What is wrong with the following sentence? Actionable Community Organizations (ACOs) undertake financial risk in the care of their patients, are not required to use a single EHR within their respective community and do not need to have both physicians and community representatives on their operating boards.

Question 5

Which source of healthcare data is not one of the greatest contributors the industry's volume of data?

A) Imaging
B) Government
C) Mobile
D) EHRs

Question 6

It is always best for the IT department to own enterprise data.

Question 7

The new list of ICD-10 codes includes how many discrete items?

A) 92,000
B) 86,000
C) 74,000
D) 68,000
E) 54,000

Question 8

Which is not a lens to view data, or data "dimension," as discussed within the context of Chapter 9?

A) The need to imaginatively understand data and its properties for analysis as the foundation for organizational growth.
B) The use of data as the most important underpinning for the success of the implementation for ACA legislation and change in healthcare.
C) That of technical, pedantic knowledge.

Question 9

What do the Three V's stand for in the following sentence? The importance of the velocity, Three V's of data is endemic throughout the world and not exclusive to healthcare.

Question 10

Financial incentives within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) have inhibited and decelerated the adoption of EHRs.

Question 11

Intrinsically, which of these two healthcare software applications has more data?

A) Practice Management Systems (PMS)
B) Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Question 12

Provider healthcare institutions that are in geographical proximity generally adopt and use the same vendors for their operational software.

Question 13

The majority of digital data has been created in the last six months.

Question 14

What does the saying "Healthcare is local" mean?

Question 15

Which metric is inaccurate?

A) 850,000 licensed U.S. physicians
B) 2,000,000 registered U.S. nurses
C) 6,000 registered U.S. hospitals

Question 16

As healthcare institutions provide solutions for their data growth and management, there will be technical and data architecture management career opportunities.

Question 17

Which group contributes significant data to the aggregate U.S. healthcare data count?

A) Public health organizations
B) Research centers
C) Home health
D) Pharmaceutical laboratories
E) All of the above

Question 18

The conversion of diagnostic coding from ICD-9s to ICD-10s will be very helpful for the thousands of coding personnel as the possible choices will decrease exponentially.

Question 19

With the ever-increasing granularity and acuity of healthcare imaging for X-rays, MRIs, and newer modalities data will be more compressed resulting in lower data volumes.

Question 20

Normalization of healthcare data is a relatively simple programming algorithm considering that healthcare's exclusive dependency on Latin and Greek language foundations provide a maximum of only three base phonetic roots in any given medical word.