RHIA

RHIA practice questions, page 4 of 73, with answer review and explanations.

Question 16

Which interdisciplinary committee is most likely to be charged with the responsibility for monitoring trends in delinquent health record percentages?

  1. Health Record Committee.
  2. Utilization Review Committee.
  3. Risk Management Committee.
  4. Joint Conference Committee.

Question 17

A health record analyst needs to quickly compare all lab values during one hospitalization. The paper-based health record format best suited for this purpose is

  1. problem-oriented.
  2. source-oriented.
  3. reverse chronological.
  4. integrated.

Question 18

In preparing your facility for initial accreditation by Joint Commission, you are trying to improve the process of ongoing record review. All health record reviews are presently performed by a team of Him department personnel. The committee meets quarterly and reports to a Quality Management Committee. In reviewing Joint Commission standards your first recommended change is to

  1. have more frequent committee meetings.
  2. have the committee report to the Executive Committee.
  3. have a physician perform all the reviews.
  4. provide for record reviews to be performed by an interdisciplinary team of care providers.

Question 19

As the privacy officer of your facility, you have been charged with developing policies and procedures for protecting the confidentiality and security of the clinical data collected in your computerized system. One of the first steps you will take is to judge the value of information processed by your system and classify it. Another step you will need to take is to

  1. authorize access to information collected based on level of data sensitivity.
  2. prevent all nonclinicians’ access to any confidential information in the system.
  3. establish firewalls to protect aggregate data collected within your facility.
  4. establish passwords for all customers, both internal and external, who request access to the information in your system.

Question 20

A qualitative review of a health record reveals that the history and physical for a patient admitted on June 26 was performed on June 30 and transcribed on July 1. Which of the following statement regarding the history and physical is ture in this situation? Completion and charting of the H&P indicates.

  1. noncompliance with Joint Commission standards.
  2. compliance with Joint Commission standards.
  3. compliance with Medicare regulations.
  4. compliance with Joint Commission standards for nonsurgical patients.