CHI CHI Healthcare Analytics & Population Health 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which type of analytics uses historical health data to identify trends and patterns in a population?
- Prescriptive analytics
- Descriptive analytics (Correct answer)
- Cognitive analytics
- Real-time analytics
Correct answer: Descriptive analytics
Descriptive analytics summarizes historical data to reveal trends and patterns in population health.
Question 2: A health informatician wants to predict which patients are at high risk for hospital readmission. Which analytics approach is most appropriate?
- Descriptive analytics
- Diagnostic analytics
- Predictive analytics (Correct answer)
- Normative analytics
Correct answer: Predictive analytics
Predictive analytics uses statistical models and machine learning to forecast future events such as readmission risk.
Question 3: What does the term 'population health management' primarily focus on?
- Managing individual patient records
- Improving health outcomes across a defined group while reducing costs (Correct answer)
- Training clinical staff on EHR use
- Coding diagnoses for billing purposes
Correct answer: Improving health outcomes across a defined group while reducing costs
Population health management aims to improve health outcomes and quality of care for a defined group while controlling costs.
Question 4: Which measure is commonly used to assess the burden of disease in a population by combining years of life lost and years lived with disability?
- QALY
- DALY (Correct answer)
- NPS
- HEDIS
Correct answer: DALY
The Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) measures overall disease burden by combining premature mortality and disability.
Question 5: A health system stratifies its patient panel into low-, medium-, and high-risk tiers to allocate care management resources. This practice is called:
- Case mix indexing
- Risk stratification (Correct answer)
- Utilization review
- Clinical benchmarking
Correct answer: Risk stratification
Risk stratification categorizes patients by their likelihood of adverse health events to prioritize interventions.
Question 6: Which federal program collects and publicly reports quality measures for hospitals, including readmission rates and patient satisfaction scores?
- HIPAA
- Hospital Compare (CMS) (Correct answer)
- HITECH
- Meaningful Use
Correct answer: Hospital Compare (CMS)
CMS Hospital Compare publicly reports hospital quality measures including readmissions, infections, and HCAHPS scores.
CHI CHI Healthcare Analytics & Population Health 1
Which type of analytics uses historical health data to identify trends and patterns in a population?