AHIMA Health IT Systems 5

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

ISO/TR 20514

Answer

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

Question 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?

Accepted Answer

ITIL

Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

$everything

Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

End-to-end encryption of media streams

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Stores raw data in native format without pre-defined schema

Answer

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.

(AHIMA) American Health Information Management Association Practice Test

(AHIMA) American Health Information Management Association Practice Test

AHIMA Health IT Systems 5