Deck 14: Public Health Informatics

Question 1

In 2009, what injury became the leading cause of external injury deaths?

A) Automobile accidents
B) Skiing accidents
C) Drug poisonings
D) Alcohol poisonings

Answer 1

Drug poisonings

Question 2

In 2009, the average length of hospital inpatient stay for an injury was

A) 3.5 days.
B) 4.3 days.
C) 4.8 days.
D) 5.1 days.

Answer 2

4.8 days.

Question 3

Of the U.S. states near the Mexico border, which had the highest number of reported cases of tuberculosis (2010)?

A) Texas
B) Arizona
C) California
D) New Mexico

Answer 3

Texas

Question 4

In 2010, how many work-related assaults required a visit to an emergency department?

A) 50,407
B) 123,102
C) 137,400
D) 143,200

Question 5

A HIM professional in a hospital would be supporting implementation of a syndromic surveillance system when he

A) Presents the public health benefits to the Chairman of the Medical Record Committee in preparation for a scheduled monthly meeting.
B) Works with the hospital's CIO to research and develop a secure methodology to identify and transmit de-identified hospital-specific coded health care data to the public health authority.
C) Educates ER, outpatient, and hospital HIM coders about the critical nature of syndromic surveillance.
D) All of the above.

Question 6

Which age group is currently most likely to die from accidents?

A) 1-24 years of age
B) 25-44 years of age
C) 45-64 years of age
D) 65 and over

Question 7

What disease does coronavirus cause?

A) Ebola
B) Rubella
C) MERS
D) SARS

Question 8

Females age 13-15 are encouraged to get the HPV vaccine. The target for HPV in Healthy People 2020 is 80%. The current reported level (2008) is approximately

A) 10-15%.
B) 21-25%.
C) 16-20%.
D) 26-30%.

Question 9

This entity/group collects data about facilities that supply health care and the services rendered in the United States.

A) National Health Interview Survey
B) National Health Care Survey
C) National Center for Health Statistics
D) National Public Health Network

Question 10

An example of public health population-based data is

A) All school-age children with the diagnosis of Hansen's disease.
B) All licensed drivers over the age of 65.
C) All deaths occurring in an acute care hospital within specified time frames.
D) All of the above.

Question 11

One Health Port services in Washington State include(s)

A) Standard mapping for the continuity of care document.
B) Physician orders for controlled substances.
C) Eligibility verifications.
D) Both a and c

Question 12

Public health officials need excellent health information systems to be able to

A) Track policy outcome measures.
B) Provide advice to individual doctors on how to treat certain diseases.
C) Lobby Congress for funding.
D) None of the above.

Question 13

Healthy People 2020 is sponsored by

A) NCQA.
B) CDC.
C) AHRQ.
D) ONC.

Question 14

HIM professionals can contribute to improving prevention of injuries by

A) Advocating for the required use of external use of injury coding in all hospitals and emergency departments.
B) Adding injury data to their facility's syndromic surveillance reporting.
C) Becoming knowledgeable about Joint Commission publications on external injury data.
D) Both a and c

Question 15

Senior citizens who die of an injury are most likely to die from

A) Motor vehicle/traffic accident.
B) Firearm.
C) Poisoning.
D) Fall.

Question 16

Which one of the following is not a core public health function?

A) Assessment
B) EHR development
C) Policy development
D) Assurance

Question 17

Injuries and violence are the leading cause of death for individuals aged

A) 1-30 years
B) 1-44 years
C) 25-44 years
D) 45-70 years

Question 18

The top leading cause of death in the United States in 1900 was

A) Pneumonia/influenza.
B) Heart attack.
C) Cancer.
D) Childbirth.

Question 19

The top leading current cause of death in the United States as of 2007 is

A) Influenza and pneumonia.
B) Heart disease.
C) Cerebrovascular.
D) Malignant neoplasms.

Question 20

The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set report card system aggregates data across health care plans and produces a report entitled

A) The Quality Chasm.
B) Healthy People 2020.
C) State of Health Care Quality.
D) Use Case Examples for Health Information Exchange.

Question 21

What CDC publication can you access to find out public health information from individual states?

A) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
B) Healthy People 2020
C) Onehealthport.com
D) Preventing Chronic Disease (E-journal)

Question 22

Public health provides both direct clinical services and community services.

Question 23

Adolescents (ages 13-15) need a booster of Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis)

Question 24

To achieve public health goals and to demonstrate these goals have or are being met, public health does not need

A) Data management systems that meet local needs to collect, analyze, and monitor standardized baseline data systematically.
B) One statewide vendor to assure continuity among various entities.
C) A fully integrated, secure computer network.
D) Linkage between local and statewide data bases in both private and public sectors.

Question 25

Mexico has more current cases of tuberculosis than the United States.

Question 26

HEDIS reporting combines reference data from the CDC with HEDIS data.

Question 27

Clinical and public health practices can be harmonized when clinical EHR systems can automatically report certain data to authorized public health entities.

Question 28

Eradicating tuberculosis is an example of a _____________________goal.

Question 29

Stage One of Meaningful Use for Public Health requires that an eligible professional successfully submit one test submission for each of these three types of data: lab data, syndromic surveillance data, and immunization data.

Question 30

Public health focuses on what society can do to assure healthy conditions for its citizens and concentrates on populations, not individuals.

Question 31

The Public Health Services Act (PHSA) of 1944 was the original public health agency in the United States

Question 32

As eligible health professionals and hospitals adopt, implement, and upgrade their EHR systems through the CMS EHR Incentive programs (Meaningful Use programs), there is an opportunity for public health agencies (PHAs) to receive health data routinely from settings other than emergency departments and urgent care centers.

Question 33

Which one of the following is not a public health obligation?

A) Prevent epidemics and the spread of disease.
B) Prevent injuries.
C) Promote and encourage healthy behaviors and mental health.
D) Assure everyone has access to Obamacare.

Question 34

If we understood more about the causes of injuries, more could be done to prevent them.

Question 35

Assuring and supporting healthy pregnancies is considered a core public health activity.

Question 36

The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) is a conduit for

A) Using data standards to facilitate timely, secure reporting of data.
B) Public health agencies to report disease data to the CDC.
C) Exchanging information to support the national disease surveillance system.
D) All of the above.

Question 37

Stage Two of Meaningful Use for Public Health requires public health agencies to be able to receive patient-identified data based on syndromic surveillance rules and send alerts to health care providers about public health events.

Question 38

The Healthy People 2020 goal for tobacco use for adolescents in grades 9-12 is to reduce this risk behavior from 26% to

A) 25%.
B) 23%.
C) 21%.
D) 19%.

Question 39

Because of agreed-upon public health measures throughout the world, international travel is no longer a reason for infectious diseases to spread.

Question 40

Prevention measures such as vaccines have contributed to the decrease in infectious diseases.