Ultimate CPHIMS Flashcards

A hospital is implementing a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system. Which type of CDS intervention fires automatically without requiring clinician action?

Answer: Active (interruptive) alerts

Active or interruptive CDS alerts fire automatically and interrupt clinician workflow to present critical information.

Under HIPAA, which of the following is NOT considered Protected Health Information (PHI)?

Answer: De-identified patient data released per Safe Harbor method

Data de-identified using the Safe Harbor method (removing all 18 identifiers) is no longer considered PHI under HIPAA.

An organization's IT team is evaluating system scalability. Which metric BEST measures a system's ability to handle increased workload without performance degradation?

Answer: Throughput under peak load

Throughput under peak load directly measures how well a system handles increased demand without degrading performance.

Which HL7 standard is specifically designed for exchanging clinical documents, such as discharge summaries, in a human-readable and machine-processable format?

Answer: Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

HL7 CDA is the standard for structuring clinical documents to be both human-readable and machine-processable.

A project manager notices that a health IT project's cost performance index (CPI) is 0.85. What does this indicate?

Answer: The project is over budget — spending $1.18 for every $1 of work completed

A CPI below 1.0 means the project is over budget, spending more than the budgeted cost for the work accomplished.

Which data governance role is primarily responsible for defining policies for data quality, access, and use within a specific business domain?

Answer: Data steward

Data stewards own data quality and usage policies within their business domain and ensure compliance with governance standards.

A healthcare organization is conducting a gap analysis before EHR implementation. What is the PRIMARY purpose of a gap analysis in this context?

Answer: Identifying differences between current state and desired future state requirements

A gap analysis compares current capabilities against future-state requirements to identify what must change for successful implementation.