CPHIMS Study Guide 2026

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115

Questions

120 min

Time Limit

75%

Passing Score

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📚 CPHIMS Topics to Study (39)

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✍️ Sample CPHIMS Questions & Answers

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. A clinical decision support rule fires an alert for every patient admitted, regardless of clinical context. This violates which CDS best practice?

✓ Alert specificity

CDS alerts should be specific to the clinical context—firing broadly for unrelated patients creates noise, alert fatigue, and undermines trust in the system.

5. Which of the following is a primary function of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States healthcare environment?

✓ Administering the nation's major federal healthcare programs and setting reimbursement policies.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards. Its policies on reimbursement and conditions of participation have a significant impact on the entire healthcare industry.

6. Under HIPAA, who bears ultimate accountability for ensuring a covered entity's compliance with security regulations?

✓ The organization's leadership/Board

Ultimate accountability for HIPAA compliance rests with the organization's senior leadership and governing board, not individual staff roles.

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