Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

Your new optical disk system has the ability to automatically route charts that need cod' analyzing, and other processing to the appropriate person. What is this technology called?

A patient admitted to the hospital on January 24 and discharged on February 9 has a length

The supervisor over release of information has requested a meeting with her superior, the Director of Health Information Services. She begins the meeting by describing how overwhelmed she is feeling. She is extremely behind in her work and she doesn't know what she can do to change the situation. In advising the supervisor, the director suggests that perhaps she should begin addressing her problem by attending a management workshop. Which of the following workshop topics is more likely to help the supervisor with her problem?

You have been the supervisor in quality management at Happy Valley Hospital for almost a y now and your appraisal is right around the corner. Your director has asked the members of y, staff and the physicians on the committees you service to complete forms that will provide in' into the appraisal process. In addition, you have been asked to formally assess your own progress in this new position. It is time consuming and more than a little intimidating, but you suppose will provide you with some good insights into the quality of your work. Because you are, after the supervisor in QM, it is only fair that you participate fully in your facility's commitment to

Harry H. Potter was admitted to your hospital to receive a second round of chemotherapy for an invasive tumor. Four days after admission, Harry complained of a sore throat and developed a fever. Harry's throat culture was positive for strep. His strep throat will be

Sally has been diagnosed with panic attacks and is prescribed Xanax. She has been taking the medication as prescribed by her physician for 3 days and is now having hallucinations. Her physician advises her to stop taking the medication and her symptoms abate. Her doctor determines that the hallucinations were due to the Xanax.

Female, 76 years old, admitted with tachycardia due to theophylline toxicity.

A patient was admitted to the hospital with hemiplegia and aphasia. The hemiplegia and aphasia were resolved before discharge and the patient was diagnosed with cerebral thrombosis. What is the correct coding and sequencing?

Patient comes in for a percutaneous needle biopsy of the thyroid gland.

The most common type of vaginitis is

Young child presents with cleft lip and cleft palate. This is the first attempt of repair, which includes major revision of the cleft palate and unilateral cleft lip repair.

You are developing an entity-relationship diagram. The entity that you are currently working is "patient". Which of the following would be the primary key for the entity patient?

Which of the following is an example of the breach of confidentiality?

Which type of system would be utilized to help the CEO of a facility in determining whether not to expand the radiation therapy services?

The MS-DRG (Medicare Severity-Diagnosis-Related Group) system was designed to pay

As a concurrent record reviewer for an acute care facility, you have asked Dr. Crossman to provide an updated history and physical for one of her recent admissions. Dr. Crossman pages through the medical record to a copy of an H&P performed in her office a week before admission. You tell Dr. Crossman.

Based on this patient volume, the MS-DRG which brings in the highest total reimbursement to the hospital is

Patient presents to the operating room and undergoes an endovascular repair of an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm utilizing a unibody bifurcated prosthesis.

In preparing a capital budget request, the first priority will be to document

What was the average length of stay at Royal Palm Hospital in February? Royal Palm Hospital has 500 beds and 55 bassinets. In February of a nonleap year, it reported the following statistics: