Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

Mallory, the coding supervisor, must determine the number of full-time employees (FTEs) needed to code 600 discharges per week. It takes an average of 20 minutes to code each record and each coder will work 40 hours per week. How many coders are needed?

The director of a Health Information Department has asked the department supervisors to review and revise all job descriptions. Missie Harris, the supervisor over coding and analysis, i determined that the job description for the senior coders must be revised. Ms. Harris' decision revise the job description is probably due to a change in the

Encryption, access control, emergency access to records, and biometrics are examples of

The coding supervisor is responsible for reviewing a random sample of each coder's work and reporting on the error rate for each coder. A check sheet is used to collect the number of char reviewed, the number of errors for each coder, and the type of errors. What types of graphs orj charts could be used to report the information gathered?

Jessica is the leader of a project team working on the definition of the women's health service line. Several departments are so enthusiastic about the progress that they ask for additions to the project. This is not uncommon, and is known as

A patient who is HIV positive and currently asymptomatic is admitted with a compound fracture of the tibia. The patient was treated previously for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Given the following codes, which is the correct coding and sequencing?

On his 5/23/08 admission to Metropolitan Hospital, David Robinson was assigned the medical record number 07-23-38. The previous record number assigned to Mr. Robinson during a 4/1/07 admission was 07-10-47. In a serial numbering/filing system, how would these records be filed?

Which of the following names would be filed first alphabetically?

According to AHIMA and AHA guidelines, which of the following would be an acceptable authorization for release of information from the medical record of an adult, mentally competent patient hospitalized from 4/16/2007 to 5/10/2007? An authorization dated

The nursing initial assessment upon admission documents the presence of a decubitus ulcer. There is no mention of the decubitus ulcer in the physician documentation until several days after admission.

Atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease of the lower leg with claudication. Angioplasty of the lower leg artery performed.

The Director of Health Information Services has recently received approval to purchase the necessary equipment to place all inactive records on optical disc. The director plans to redo the department layout to accommodate the equipment and to ensure that the equipment is placed in the most appropriate area of the department. Which of the following tools will best assist the director with this new layout?

Patient with Parkinson's disease is admitted for insertion of a brain neurostimulator pulse generator with one electrode array.

Sea Crest Hospital has 200 beds and 20 bassinets. There was a sudden spurt in the birth rate in town in November-the hospital set up five additional bassinets for the entire month. Total bed count days for Sea Crest Hospital in a nonleap year would be

Patient has breast carcinoma and is now undergoing sentinel node biopsy. Patient was injected for sentinel node identification and two deep axillary lymph nodes showed up intensely. These two lymph nodes were completely excised. Path report was positive for metastatic carcinoma.

Based on the information below, what was the net death rate at Seaside Hospital in January?

Anxiety with depression

Advantages of a centralized filing system include all but which one of the following?

A patient is admitted to the hospital for  a coronary artery bypass surgery. Postoperatively, he develops a pulmonary embolism.