RHIA Health Information Technologies and Systems 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the primary purpose of SNOMED CT in healthcare?
- Billing and reimbursement coding
- Providing a comprehensive clinical terminology for EHR documentation (Correct answer)
- Classifying causes of death
- Encoding laboratory reference ranges
Correct answer: Providing a comprehensive clinical terminology for EHR documentation
SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) is a comprehensive clinical terminology used within EHRs to encode clinical concepts for documentation and data exchange.
Question 2: In data governance, what is a data steward responsible for?
- Programming database queries
- Overseeing the quality, integrity, and appropriate use of specific data domains (Correct answer)
- Auditing financial statements
- Managing physical server infrastructure
Correct answer: Overseeing the quality, integrity, and appropriate use of specific data domains
A data steward oversees the quality, completeness, and appropriate use of assigned data domains within an organization's information systems.
Question 3: What is the purpose of a system downtime procedure in a healthcare facility?
- Upgrade EHR software overnight
- Maintain patient care operations and data integrity when electronic systems are unavailable (Correct answer)
- Archive old patient records
- Train new staff on EHR use
Correct answer: Maintain patient care operations and data integrity when electronic systems are unavailable
Downtime procedures ensure patient care can continue safely and records can be captured manually when EHR or other critical systems become unavailable.
Question 4: Which organization is responsible for developing and maintaining the HL7 FHIR standard?
- The American Medical Association (AMA)
- Health Level Seven International (HL7) (Correct answer)
- The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Correct answer: Health Level Seven International (HL7)
Health Level Seven International (HL7) develops and maintains the FHIR standard and other health data exchange standards used globally.
Question 5: What is a database management system (DBMS) used for in healthcare information systems?
- Scanning paper documents
- Creating, managing, and querying structured data stored in databases (Correct answer)
- Generating medical images
- Processing insurance claims only
Correct answer: Creating, managing, and querying structured data stored in databases
A DBMS allows healthcare organizations to create, organize, retrieve, and manage structured data stored in relational or other database formats.
Question 6: Which type of health information system is designed specifically to track and manage cancer diagnoses across a population?
- Master patient index
- Clinical decision support system
- Cancer registry information system (Correct answer)
- Picture archiving and communication system (PACS)
Correct answer: Cancer registry information system
Cancer registry information systems capture, manage, and report cancer case data including diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes for surveillance and research purposes.
RHIA Health Information Technologies and Systems 2
What is the primary purpose of SNOMED CT in healthcare?