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HSA 520 Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) Final Exam: Concepts and Applications in Healthcare

This final exam focuses on the concepts and applications of health management information systems in healthcare settings.

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    HSA 520 Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) Final Exam: Concepts and Applications in Healthcare HSA 520 Final Exam Part 1 & 2 PART - 1 1) An information - inquiring culture has transparent: Answer information discovery. Core values. direct reports. accounting and finances. 2) Emerging trends that are encouraging heathcare executives to become interested in developing innovative, integrative, and cost - beneficial HMIS solutions include: Answer wireless, user - friendly portables. tape recordings. X - ray films. accessible records 3) An information - discovery culture ensures: Answer critical information about due processes. sharing of insights freely and encourages employees to collaborate. sensitivity for privacy. giving up the power of controlling others. 4) The genesis of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) goes back to the roots of numerous areas, including: Answer computing privacy. information economics multidimensional data sets. medical policies.

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    5) The executive who oversees the financing function, budgeting, and funding of the health services organization’s operating programs is the: Answer CEO COO CFO CPO 6) Question 6 Effective communication is essential for forming all kinds of work relationships, especially for: Answer delivering one - sided, manager to subordinate, communication. telling board members what is going to happen. providing clear, firm autocratic orders. building strong social networks among key stakeholders. Question 7 As a trustworthy leader, the senior executive must have the ability to: Answer exude trust from their direct reports and corresponding followers. develop a "top - down" working relationship with followers. articulate how or why certain things are or are not being executed without explanations. dictate to others on how to manage their time. Question 8 In a healthcare services organizational context, the mission, goals, and objectives of the health organization determine how: Answer to evaluate verified data. to verify the veracity of amassed healthcare information. HMIS should be incorporated throughout an organization. to network computer systems and functional tasks. Question 9 The role of the CEO or CIO to oversee the use of HMIS in any healthcare services organization requires that the individual has been trained and has experience and mastered a certain set of:

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    Answer rules and laws. strategic, tactical, and operational IT competencies. department goals and strategies. efficient business processes. Question 10 Within the context of healthcare services organizations, there are many published examples of Internet use, including: Answer PowerPoint presentations. access to online insurance service data. access to personal credit scores. final reports developed in ACCESS. Question 11 The 2006 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey found that the following users seek health information online in the United States: Answer 1 of 10 5 of 10 8 of 10 10 of 10 Question 12 The digital divide stands to affect: Answer telecommunications. health quality. myriad online activities. information associations. Question 13 URL stands for: Answer uniform relocation lab. universal resource locators. uniform restructuring link usability relocation link

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    Question 14 Customer relationship management (CRM) software must be designed with the following in mind. Answer An in - depth recognition of its customers' specific needs. Strategic communication is for different types of software. Enhancement of existing programs and services. Creative services that would progress and fulfill the organizational long - term goals. Question 15 SCM ensures readily available access to: Answer order tracking. return on investment (ROI). health maintenance organizations (HMOs). demand printing. Question 16 The primary goals of supply chain management (SCM) are: Answer to achieve increased efficiencies with regard to information flows and exchanges between the organization and its external parties. to satisfy the need for economies of scale. to increase the volume of daily purchasing. to decrease efficiencies with regard to information flows and exchanges. Question 17 Existing ERP packages include: Answer HMOs. Oracle. SCM. HMIS. Question 18 For practice management systems delivered from private healthcare organizations and hospitals, electronic billing and patient scheduling are being developed for numerous benefits, including:

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    Answer keeping manual follow - up procedures. reducing, or possibly eliminating, all paper - based forms for which healthcare services organizations are especially vulnerable. increase the accuracy of billing/coding. eliminating electronic order processing Question 19 Issues that may arise with a RHINO setup like the Mayo Clinic's include problems with: Answer maintaining separate processes as previously developed. using insurance companies to iron out problems. difficulties with patients. data shadowing and the need for creating interfaces to communicate among disparate platforms and software. Question 20 One of the stated goals of HL7 collaboration is to: Answer develop coherent, extendable standards that permit structured, encoded healthcare information of the type required to support patient care. sustain interoperability enhance existing programs and services. create services that would progress and fulfill the organizational long - term goals. Question 21 Consolidation, sometimes purported as a “market - sheltering activity” occurs when: Answer the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is shared. the program instructions and data provides the CPU with a working storage area. two or more comparable healthcare services organizations combine to augment or preserve market power. read - only memory (ROM) is shared. Question 22 EHR will be one of the most costly project expenditures that a healthcare services organization will undertake, with regard to the investments of time and money and the resultant challenge of returns on investments (ROI). This is due to:

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    Answer the significance of the returns to be realized from an EHR implementation remains a concern for many healthcare executives. the program instructions provide the CPU with a working storage area. two or more comparable healthcare services organizations combine to augment or preserve market power. read - only memory (ROM) is shared. Question 23 When combined with various other workflow tools, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) can also be useful in providing information about: Answer manual follow - up procedures. reducing paper - based forms. patient scheduling. eliminating electronic orders. Question 24 Three categories of healthcare data are required, almost universally, by healthcare services organizations for supporting their planning and decision - making activities, and one of these is: Answer vital statistics. environmental statistics. census statistics. consensus statistics. Question 25 Substantial administrative and clinical benefits can be achieved, should a universal EHR system be finally realized and these include: Answer increased paperwork. greater documentation errors. easy dissemination of critical patient information to other care providers for follow - up assessments. extremely slow accessibility of patient records universally. Question 26

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