Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

Your HIM department is moving to a new location, and in order to arrange your employees functions for optimal work flow efficiency and to decide which employees need to be placed d to each other, the tool you decide to use is a

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Patient presents to the hospital for debridement of a diabetic ulcer of the left ankle. The patient has a history of recurrent ulcers. Medication taken by the patient includes Diabeta and the patient was covered in the hospital with insulin sliding scales. The ulcer was debrided down to the bone.

As the chair of a Forms Review Committee, you need to track the origin of data in a particular field and the security levels applicable to that field. Your best source for this information would be the

Patient with chronic otitis media requiring eustachian tube catheterization

Most health care facilities use this type of screening criteria for utilization review purposes to determine the need for inpatient services and justification for continued stay.

Which of the following are considered late effects regardless of time?

Patient undergoes enucleation of left eye and muscles were reattached to an implant.

At Community Hospital the average admission will create a file that will take up 0.25 inch of file space. Each new ER record requires 0.125 inch of filed space. Approximately 25,000 new patients are admitted per year and 15,000 ER patients are treated per year. The shelving cost is $1.05 per filing inch. How much money should be allocated for storage space in next year's budget?

Which of the following statements is false in regard to departmental reengineering?

Commercial insurance plans usually reimburse health care providers under some type of __________ payment system, whereas the federal Medicare program uses some type of ___________ payment system.

Prolonged pregnancy is a pregnancy that has advanced beyond _______ completed weeks of gestation.

Which of the following statements is true about the Privacy Act of 1974?

The following "sentinel events" must be available for Joint Commission review EXCEPT

__________ is the most common type of skin cancer and ___________ is the most deadly type of skin cancer?

An important element of data quality is security in preventing unauthorized access, corruption, misuse, and loss of data. Both technical and procedural methods will bed used with the CPR to control and manage confidential information. An example of a procedural method for protecting data is

Nephropathy due to tuberculosis (confirmed histologically) of the kidney. Patient has a right nephrectomy performed.

Patient was admitted to the hospital with. sharp pelvic pains. A pelvic ultrasound was ordered { and the results showed a possible ovarian cyst. The patient was taken to the operating room where a laparoscopic destruction of two corpus luteum cysts was performed.

Michael is a new manager at Tri-County Health Systems. Human Resources has recently provided training for and implemented a new performance appraisal system which includes input from managers, peers, and staff. This approach is typically known as

The local safety council requests statistics on the number of head injuries occurring as a result of skateboarding accidents during the last year. To retrieve this data, you will need to have the correct