Health IT Systems Flashcards
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Which federal regulation requires healthcare providers to give patients electronic access to their health information within 30 days of request?
Answer: 21st Century Cures Act
The 21st Century Cures Act mandates timely patient access to electronic health information and prohibits information blocking by covered actors.
A revenue cycle system automatically applies the correct ICD-10-PCS code based on documentation in the operative note. This functionality is an example of:
Answer: Natural language processing (NLP) computer-assisted coding
NLP-powered computer-assisted coding (CAC) analyzes free-text clinical documentation to suggest or assign procedure and diagnosis codes automatically.
Which interoperability profile from IHE defines how documents are registered, stored, and retrieved in a document-sharing network?
Answer: XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing)
IHE XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing) defines the infrastructure for storing and querying clinical documents across enterprise boundaries.
Which type of health IT system is specifically designed to support public health surveillance and outbreak detection at the population level?
Answer: Syndromic surveillance system
Syndromic surveillance systems aggregate real-time data from emergency departments and other sources to detect disease outbreaks before diagnoses are confirmed.
An organization experiences a ransomware attack that encrypts its EHR database. Which element of the CIA triad is primarily violated?
Answer: Availability
Ransomware attacks deny access to data and systems, primarily violating Availability in the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) triad.
Which health IT standard is used to electronically transmit prescription information between prescribers and pharmacies?
Answer: NCPDP SCRIPT
NCPDP SCRIPT is the national standard for electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) transactions between prescriber systems and pharmacies.
During an EHR system selection, an organization uses a weighted scoring matrix to evaluate vendors. This approach is part of which phase of the system development life cycle?
Answer: Analysis
Vendor evaluation using weighted scoring criteria occurs during the Analysis phase, when requirements are assessed and solutions are compared.