healthcare quiz
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What is the federal act that empowers the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to create shared accountability for Medicare shared savings across groups of physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers?
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All of the following are considered a transition of care where a summary of care must be provided except which?
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Which of the following is not an electronic tool by which clinicians can engage consumers?
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Which of the following is a significant driver for the use of EHRs?
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Which of the following is considered by the Institute of Medicine to be functionality in an electronic record?
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The electronic entry of orders by the ordering clinician is referred to as which of the following?
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Which of the following is generally not considered demographic information?
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Which of the following national identifiers was not mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996?
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Which organization created and maintains the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set?
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Which is a method to articulate the tasks, time, manual work, delays, and multiple variations that exist within care processes for a discipline or with reporting processes associated with many departments?
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Analyzing workflows can help discover which of the following?
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In general, what does role-based security in EHRs help maintain the principle of?
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What is covered by the term "personal health information"?
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What is a value set?
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Which of the following is the acronym for the standard used to write an eMeasure?
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Systems analysis involves which of the following?
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Why is the implementation of EHRs on the rise?
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What is the key to a successful implementation of an EHR?
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The term “health data standards” is generally used to describe those standards having to do with which of the following?
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Through meaningful use incentives, patient portals have been developed where patients can often access which of the following?
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What kind of analysis needs to take place before a new EHR can be integrated?
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Of the traditional information security concerns, which is uniquely and exceedingly important within healthcare?
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Which of the following statements is correct?
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What are the privacy rights afforded patients pursuant to the HIPAA Privacy rule (45 CFR Parts 160 and 164)?
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What are the operations on a class of objects that make up permission?
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Question 26 (10 points) short answer 300 words
Assume you are a personal injury lawyer specializing in car accidents. Joan Thomas visits your office in a wheelchair asking you to represent her. She says her doctor will email you her hospital discharge records so you can use them in court. When you receive her records, you email them to your paralegal for analysis and filing. Instead of filing the electronic document on the firm’s file server, your paralegal accidentally forwards the document to the defendant’s attorney, who happens to be a personal friend. Did anyone violate the HITECH Act? Why or why not? If a complaint were filed, who would file it? What could the potential penalty be? Who would be penalized? Why?
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Question 27 (10 points) short answer 300 words
Again, assume you are the same malpractice lawyer as in the previous case. Assume your paralegal filed the patient’s medical records on the firm’s file server appropriately. Your firm excels in disaster recovery such that it has an automatic nightly backup system that saves all new files to the cloud using an internet file backup system. However, unknown to you, and your firm, a technician at the backup firm likes to look at random new files as they are being uploaded to the service’s servers. As luck would have it, the technician knows the patient who filed the complaint, calls her and asks how she is recovering from the medical error injury. Did anyone violate the HITECH Act? If so, who and to what extent? If not provide a rationale.
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Question 28 (10 points) short answer 300 words
Monica is the Office Manager at a busy surgical practice located in a hospital. The doctors have just decided to implement EHRs and have joined the EHR system that is part of the hospital's IT infrastructure. The doctors want to provide patients with a printout of their visit as they leave the examining room. To allow them to be able to move the printer around, they asked Monica to order a wireless printer like the one that one of the doctors uses at home (he knows that it was not expensive, that it was easy to get up and running, and that he has had no problems with it). She has received the printer and it is sitting on a cabinet outside the examining rooms. Monica called the hospital IT department and when the technician arrived, he told her he could not hook up the wireless printer for use, as it is not supported by the hospital. When Monica called for further assistance, she was told that she would have to talk to the IT security manager about getting it onto the wireless network and that since it was not a printer purchased by the hospital that the hospital IT department could not support it. Monica is frustrated because the doctors want to use the printer and she cannot figure out how to get it connected to the EHR system. What could Monica do at this point? What should she have done when the doctors told her to order the wireless printer? Why?
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Question 29 (20 points) short answer 300 words
The Maxum Care Health Group (MCHG) is a group of healthcare providers, with 10 general practitioners (GPs) who also function as family physicians for many in their town of about 50,000 people. As GPs, the group functions as primary care physicians, which means they are the first point of contact for many in the community. MCHG accepts all patients that carry health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid.
MCHG has been in operation for over 25 years. Drs. Thomas and Sims founded the group, but since then have hired the balance of the medical staff. Aside from Drs. Thomas and Sims, the medical staff is relatively young, and well oriented to modern medicine and its management and organization.
The office staff at MCHG is comprised of several job positions. These include a receptionist, several secretaries, several medical coders/billers, several transcriptionists, nine medical assistants, two laboratory technicians, and an office manager.
Because the MCHG was established before the Internet revolution, use of computers is limited. The front desk uses four terminals to schedule patients and to complete billing tasks. The terminals are connected to two central personal computers that run an old version of the Linux operating system. They are also connected to several dot-matrix printers used to print billing forms and other pertinent financial information.
All patient information including the medical record is maintained by paper files. When a doctor examines a patient, all of the pertinent chart information is recorded either by the doctor writing directly in the paper chart, or by voice dictation, which is then later transcribed into the chart.
Drs. Thomas and Sims developed MCHG to be as vertically integrated as possible, so they own and manage some of their medical equipment. Therefore, they have a small laboratory where routine blood and urinalysis can be completed on-site. As laboratory equipment becomes obsolete quickly, all the lab equipment is less than one year old. They also have a small x-ray suite for chest x-rays, broken bones, and so on. Unfortunately, x-ray equipment is very large, expensive, and hasn’t really changed much for the simpler examination as those conducted by MCHG. Thus, all of the x-ray equipment is original. For cardiac concerns, they have their own EKG equipment, but only half of the machines are current, the other half are original to the group.
Drs. Thomas and Sims recently learned of something new from the government called the HITECH Act. They are concerned that new government regulations will constrain their business without significant improvement in their ability to deliver quality health care.
Assume you are the new office manager for MCHG. When hired, you were tasked with the following goals: to bring the group into the present, increase efficiency, improve healthcare delivery, and to increase net revenues. In order to accomplish these goals, you are determined to introduce an EHR. When you present the idea to the group physicians, they have the following comments:
1. We don’t need an EHR. Our system works fine. Why should we spend money on something we don’t need? 2. EHRs only increase the likelihood we will run afoul of the HITECH Act. Paper systems are inherently more secure than electronic systems. 3. We already have an electronic system. What will an EHR do that our current system will not? 4. Instead of meeting HHS requirements, maybe we should stop taking Medicare patients.
Using the case above,
A) How would you respond to each physician comment above? Be sure to provide a solid rationale and address each comment separately. (10 points)
B) Assume the physicians agree with your recommendations. Identify and describe the regulators and regulations in order to meet the stated goals. Be sure to identify each of the major federal regulators and regulations in the United States and how they would impact the EHR implementation. (10 points)