AHIMA Health Information Governance 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is health information governance?
- An organization-wide framework for managing the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of health data (Correct answer)
- A government agency overseeing hospitals
- A type of medical license
- An electronic health record vendor
Correct answer: An organization-wide framework for managing the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of health data
HIG provides the strategic framework for policies, procedures, and oversight ensuring health information is managed properly across the organization.
Question 2: What is the role of a Health Information Management (HIM) professional?
- Managing patient health information systems, ensuring data quality, privacy compliance, and proper coding (Correct answer)
- Only filing paper records
- Only answering phone calls
- Only managing hospital IT systems
Correct answer: Managing patient health information systems, ensuring data quality, privacy compliance, and proper coding
HIM professionals oversee health information collection, maintenance, and access, ensuring quality, privacy compliance, and supporting the healthcare organization's data needs.
Question 3: What is information lifecycle management?
- Managing data from creation through use, maintenance, and ultimate disposition or destruction (Correct answer)
- Only creating new records
- Only destroying old records
- Only storing current records
Correct answer: Managing data from creation through use, maintenance, and ultimate disposition or destruction
ILM addresses all phases of information existence: creation, use, maintenance, archival, and destruction, with appropriate policies for each phase.
Question 4: What is a release of information (ROI) process?
- The procedure for disclosing patient health information in response to authorized requests (Correct answer)
- Releasing new software
- Publishing medical research
- Announcing hospital policies
Correct answer: The procedure for disclosing patient health information in response to authorized requests
ROI involves verifying authorization, identifying requested records, reviewing for compliance, and disclosing only the minimum necessary information.
Question 5: What is data mapping in health information?
- The process of connecting data fields between different systems to enable information exchange (Correct answer)
- Drawing maps of hospital departments
- Mapping patient locations
- Creating geographic databases
Correct answer: The process of connecting data fields between different systems to enable information exchange
Data mapping establishes correspondences between data elements in different systems, enabling meaningful information exchange and system interoperability.
Question 6: What is master patient index (MPI)?
- A database that assigns a unique identifier to each patient and cross-references all their records (Correct answer)
- A list of the best patients
- A hospital's main telephone directory
- An insurance company database
Correct answer: A database that assigns a unique identifier to each patient and cross-references all their records
The MPI ensures each patient has one unique identifier across all systems, preventing duplicate records and enabling accurate record retrieval.
AHIMA Health Information Governance 1
What is health information governance?