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  1. Which standard defines the structure and content of electronic health records to support longitudinal patient care across multiple providers?

    Answer: ISO/TR 20514

    ISO/TR 20514 defines the electronic health record architecture and content requirements to support continuity of care across settings and time.

  2. A hospital's IT team uses a CMDB (Configuration Management Database) to track all hardware and software assets. This practice belongs to which IT management framework?

    Answer: ITIL

    A CMDB is a core component of ITIL's Service Asset and Configuration Management process, tracking IT assets and their relationships.

  3. Which HL7 FHIR operation allows a client to retrieve all resources related to a specific patient in a single request?

    Answer: $everything

    The FHIR $everything operation on the Patient resource returns all resources associated with that patient in a single bundle response.

  4. A telehealth platform must ensure video sessions are encrypted and patient privacy is protected. Which technical safeguard is MOST critical?

    Answer: End-to-end encryption of media streams

    End-to-end encryption ensures that telehealth video and audio data cannot be intercepted or accessed by unauthorized parties during transmission.

  5. In health informatics, a 'data lake' differs from a 'data warehouse' primarily in that a data lake:

    Answer: Stores raw data in native format without pre-defined schema

    A data lake stores raw, unprocessed data in its native format with schema applied on read, unlike a data warehouse which enforces schema on write.

  6. Which federal certification program ensures that EHR products meet technical standards required for Promoting Interoperability programs?

    Answer: ONC Health IT Certification Program

    The ONC Health IT Certification Program tests and certifies EHR technology to ensure it meets standards required for CMS incentive programs.

  7. A health information manager notices that the same clinical concept is coded differently across two merged health systems. This is a problem of:

    Answer: Semantic interoperability

    Semantic interoperability requires that data shared between systems has a consistent, agreed-upon meaning — inconsistent coding breaks this.