Chapter 3 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Chapter 3  Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

Multiple Choice

1. Establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in 2004 was the federal government’s first step toward creating:

A. health information exchanges (HIEs)
B. a nationwide health network
C. “meaningful use” criteria for electronic health record adoptions
D. training programs for health information technologists

Ans.: B
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2. The central provision of the HITECH Act of 2009 was:

A. $ 20.8 billion allocation through the Medicare and Medicaid programs to incentivize physicians and health care organizations to adopt electronic health records
B. federal support for establishment of regional health information organizations (RHIOs)
C. enhanced enforcement of patient privacy of information regulations
D. support for implementing computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems

Ans.: A
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3. A major challenge of creating health information systems using data from many different sources is the feature known as “interoperability.” The solution applied to achieving interoperability has been the development of:

A. monolithic architecture
B. cultural sensitivity training among organizations
C. health information exchanges (HIEs)
D. the Systematic Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)

Ans.: C
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4. The federated model of health information exchange architecture is best described as a model in which:

A. data resides only within each institution’s system and the health information exchange data base houses only a master patient index with unique patient identifiers.
B. all participating institutions agree to purchase their health information software from the same vendor.
C. patient data is maintained under control of federal regulations
D. all participating institutions periodically send copies of clinical data to one central repository where all data reside together in one format

Ans.: A
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