CPHIMS Ultimate CPHIMS 2

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Active (interruptive) alerts

Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

De-identified patient data released per Safe Harbor method

Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Throughput under peak load

Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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

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CPHIMS Ultimate CPHIMS 2