CPHIMS Study Guide 2026

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📋 CPHIMS Exam Format at a Glance

115
Questions
120 min
Time Limit
75%
Passing Score

📚 CPHIMS Topics to Study (61)

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✍️ Sample CPHIMS Questions & Answers

1. Which of the following best describes the role of an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) in healthcare?
A coordinated network of providers and facilities under common ownership offering a continuum of care

An IDN is a single organization or system under common ownership that provides a full spectrum of care—from primary to acute to post-acute—often including its own health plan.

2. A healthcare organization is merging with a regional health system. What is the PRIMARY IT leadership priority during the integration planning phase?
Assessing interoperability of existing systems

Interoperability assessment determines how existing systems can communicate and identifies integration risks before any migration or decommissioning occurs.

3. What is the primary purpose of maintaining traceability matrices during healthcare IT testing?
Link test cases to specific requirements to ensure complete coverage

A requirements traceability matrix (RTM) maps each test case to a specific requirement, ensuring all requirements are tested and nothing is overlooked.

4. What is the recommended approach when a critical defect is discovered during user acceptance testing (UAT)?
Document, prioritize, resolve, and retest before proceeding

Critical defects found in UAT must be documented, assigned a priority, resolved by developers, and retested before the system can proceed to go-live.

5. A patient's medication list shows 'metoprolol' in one system and 'metoprolol succinate 25 mg oral' in another. Reconciling these requires which type of standard?
RxNorm

RxNorm provides normalized names and unique identifiers for clinical drugs, enabling systems to reconcile drug name variations into a single computable representation.

6. A hospital's risk analysis reveals a high-probability, high-impact threat. According to HIPAA Security Rule, what is the appropriate next step?
Implement risk management measures to reduce the risk to an acceptable level

The HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities to implement risk management measures to reduce identified risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level.

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