Course 202040 Fall 2020 BUSI 505-D04 LUO
Test Quiz 6
Started 12/5/20 2:40 PM
Submitted 12/5/20 3:40 PM
Due Date 12/6/20 11:59 PM
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Attempt Score 25 out of 25 points
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Question 1
1 out of 1 points
The Informatics Capability Maturity Model:
Selected
Answer:
c.
is a qualitative model that measures an organization’s capabilities along
five dimensions.
Response
Feedback: The Informatics Capability Maturity Model, developed by the UK’s
National Health Service, measures an organization’s capabilities along
five dimensions, rating them from 1 to 5, and can be self-administered by
an organization.
Question 2
1 out of 1 points
To achieve the goals of the HIMSS nursing informatics position statement, all nurses
should:
Selected
Answer:
a.
participate in advocacy and educational efforts directed to policy-
makers.
Response
Feedback: The HIMSS Nursing Informatics Position Statement states that nurses, as
leaders, should be knowledgeable and well versed in current public policy
initiatives and participate in advocacy and educational efforts directed to
policy-makers.
Question 3
1 out of 1 points
John T. James’s recent study, published in 2013, found how many premature deaths
associated with preventable harm to patients in the United States every year?
Selected
Answer:
c.
400,000
Response
Feedback: The James report revealed some 400,000 premature deaths due to
preventable harm to patients in U.S. healthcare facilities every year. The
report also suggests that some 10 to 20 times that number of patients
received serious, but sublethal, preventable harm.
Question 4
1 out of 1 points
An organization implements a policy on installing software service packs on all its
computers. This is an example of which type of control?
Selected
Answer:
d.
Administrative
Response
Feedback: Administrative controls include establishing and adhering to security
policies and procedures as well as dedicating resources to security.
Implementing a policy on installing and updating service packs would be
an example of administrative controls. Physical controls are actual
physical methods to protect inappropriate access to PHI. Technical
controls are using technology to protect against inappropriate access to
PHI. Electronic controls is not an accurate term.
Question 5
1 out of 1 points
A healthcare provider forgets to update a patient’s medications. Which fair information
principle is being violated?
Selected
Answer:
b.
Data quality and integrity
Response
Feedback: By not keeping a patient’s records current and up-to-date, the healthcare
provider is violating the fair information principle of data quality and
integrity. Correction involves allowing individuals to dispute the accuracy of
their information, openness and transparency involve keeping patients
informed on policies regarding PHI, and safeguards are actions
implemented to protect sensitive data.
Question 6
1 out of 1 points
The trend in healthcare IT is shifting from what to what?
Selected
Answer:
c.
IT infrastructure being developed in-house to data warehouses
developed by vendors and in-house resources
Response
Feedback: After many decades in which healthcare organizations developed in-
house transaction-based IT applications, the trend has now opened up
toward more robust data warehouses developed by vendors as well as in-
house resources.
Question 7
1 out of 1 points
The HITECH portion of ARRA was meant to do all of the following EXCEPT:
Selected
Answer:
c.
coordinate healthcare delivery standards with international healthcare
bodies.
Response HITECH was focused on EHRs and supporting the exchange of health
Feedback: and healthcare information. It was not related to international healthcare
delivery of care standardizations.
Question 8
1 out of 1 points
Which organization works on an international level to improve information privacy?
Selected
Answer:
c.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF)
Response
Feedback: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) maintains a website listing
international privacy-related accords and agreements. The Health and
Human Services Office of Civil Rights, Health Information Security and
Privacy Collaboration (HISPC), and Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) are all examples of federal and/or state organizations.
Question 9
1 out of 1 points
What is the difference between the safe harbor and expert determination methods of
de-identifying data?
Selected
Answer:
c.
The safe harbor method involves removal of 18 types of identifiers, and the
expert determination method involves the application of statistical or
scientific models.
Response
Feedback: The safe harbor method involves removal of 18 types of identifiers, and
the expert determination method involves the application of statistical or
scientific models to de-identify data. None of the other options accurately
describes these two methods.
Question 10
1 out of 1 points
Powers granted to both the federal and state governments are known as what?
Selected
Answer:
b.
Concurrent powers
Response
Feedback: Concurrent powers are given to both the federal and state governments
at the same time, such as the ability to regulate the privacy of PHI.
Question 11
1 out of 1 points
By what legal code or precedent are powers not granted to the federal government
reserved by the states?
Selected
Answer:
d.
The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Response
Feedback: The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the reserved
powers clause, reads as follows: “The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Question 12
1 out of 1 points
The technical hurdle of successfully sharing a patient’s data between a hospital in
Spokane, Washington, and a specialist in Portland, Oregon, requires:
Selected
Answer:
b.
interoperability, which requires standards to be in place.
Response
Feedback: To share information and data successfully, different healthcare systems
need interoperability. For interoperability to occur, there must be a
framework of standards in place.
Question 13
1 out of 1 points
The Center to Champion Nursing in America envisions a healthcare system where:
Selected
Answer:
c.
all Americans have access to high-quality care.
Response
Feedback: The Center to Champion Nursing in America envisions a healthcare
system where all Americans have access to high-quality care, with nurses
contributing to the full extent of their capabilities.
Question 14
1 out of 1 points
Which definition most accurately describes privacy?
Selected
Answer:
b.
The rights of individuals to control access to their person or information
about themselves
Response
Feedback: Privacy is the rights of individuals to control access to their person or
information about themselves. Security is defined as the means to ensure
health record privacy and confidentiality. Data integrity is defined as the
accuracy and completeness of health information. A threat is an act that
has the potential to cause harm to an informational asset.
Question 15
1 out of 1 points
The Health IT Standards Committee and what body are responsible for
recommending standards, such as the necessary infrastructure for health information
exchanges?
Selected
Answer:
a.
ONC
Response
Feedback: The Health IT Standards Committee works in conjunction with the Office
of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to
devise and develop standards for the healthcare industry.
Question 16
1 out of 1 points
Which example constitutes an internal security event?
Selected
Answer:
d.
A system administrator installed a new server without any security
measures.
Response
Feedback: Internal events are those perpetrated (usually accidentally) by people
within an institution. A system administrator not taking proper security
measures would be an example of this. The remaining examples are all
external events.
Question 17
1 out of 1 points
Which is true of both HITECH and MACRA?
Selected
Answer:
a.
HITECH offers incentives to both physicians and hospitals while MACRA
is focused on physicians.
Response
Feedback: HITECH offered incentives to both individual physicians and to hospitals
directly. MACRA focuses more singularly on physicians, although the
hospitals that employ them may bear indirect costs.
Question 18
1 out of 1 points
The main objective behind the health IT incentives provided by the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act is:
Selected
Answer:
c.
improving health and healthcare.
Response
Feedback: The health IT provisions of the HITECH Act and ARRA have one final
goal in mind: the improvement of Americans’ health and healthcare.
Health IT is a means to that end, not the end.
Question 19
1 out of 1 points
The Future of Nursing report listed all of the following opportunities to transform
nursing practice through technology EXCEPT:
Selected
Answer:
a.
fast-tracking nurse education to grow the ranks of nurse
practitioners.
Response
Feedback: The Future of Nursing report lists many opportunities for transforming
nursing practice with technology, such as its implications for time and
place of care, new opportunities to share information in collaborative
efforts, and the chance for nurses to lead change. While increased
education and training are always laudable goals, fast-tracking nursing
education is not part of a new technology opportunity.
Question 20
1 out of 1 points
What is the office of the Department of Health and Human Services that is charged
with overseeing nationwide efforts to implement and use health IT and electronic
exchange of health information?
Selected
Answer:
d.
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
Response
Feedback: The ONC is the only governmental agency reporting to the DHHS; its
role is to coordinate implementation of health IT and electronic
information exchange.
Question 21
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following is true regarding administrative enforcement?
Selected
Answer:
b.
There is an additional route of appeal if a decision is issued in an
administrative proceeding as opposed to a federal court proceeding.
Response
Feedback: Administrative proceedings and court proceedings are functionally
equivalent. The same remedies are available to both the federal court
judge and the administrative law judge. However, the administrative
system offers an additional route of appeal regarding decisions, when
compared to the court system.
Question 22
1 out of 1 points
Why is it difficult to establish effective health IT governance?
Selected
Answer:
c.
Fundamentally, effective governance means that some stakeholders’
informatics needs will need to be de-prioritized.
Response
Feedback: The fundamental reason for the difficulty of informatics governance is
that there is more effort desired from informatics than resources allow.
Question 23
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following would be regulated by the FDA?
Selected
Answer:
a.
An app that functions as a medical device
Response
Feedback: Only mHealth applications that are considered medical devices, such as
electrocardiograms, can be regulated by the FDA.
Question 24
1 out of 1 points
Which is true of guidance documents?
Selected
Answer:
c.
They are official agency publications.
Response
Feedback: Guidance documents may resemble rulemaking, but they are non-legally
binding documents produced by agencies, in order to help subjects
understand and comply with specific regulations.
Question 25
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following is not part of the criteria to determine Meaningful Use?
Selected
Answer:
d.
Increasing litigation victories
Response
Feedback: The point of Meaningful Use is to improve patient care and population
health. Litigation is not part of the criteria.
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