EHR EHR Interoperability and Data Exchange 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does CDA stand for in health information exchange?
- Clinical Document Architecture (Correct answer)
- Central Data Archive
- Certified Data Access
- Clinical Database Administration
Correct answer: Clinical Document Architecture
CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an HL7 standard that defines the structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange.
Question 2: Which document type is commonly used to share a patient's health summary during care transitions?
- Continuity of Care Document (CCD) (Correct answer)
- DICOM image file
- CSV spreadsheet
- PDF lab report
Correct answer: Continuity of Care Document (CCD)
The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) is a patient summary standard used to share health information during care transitions.
Question 3: What is the primary purpose of a Master Patient Index (MPI) in health information exchange?
- To uniquely identify patients across multiple healthcare systems (Correct answer)
- To store physician credentials
- To manage insurance claims
- To track medication inventory
Correct answer: To uniquely identify patients across multiple healthcare systems
The Master Patient Index uniquely identifies patients across different healthcare systems to prevent duplicate records and ensure data accuracy.
Question 4: What is a Direct secure messaging protocol used for in healthcare?
- Sending encrypted health information point-to-point between providers (Correct answer)
- Video conferencing between clinicians
- Bulk data exports to research databases
- Broadcasting public health alerts
Correct answer: Sending encrypted health information point-to-point between providers
Direct secure messaging is a standards-based protocol for sending encrypted, authenticated health information directly between trusted healthcare parties.
Question 5: Which FHIR resource is used to represent a patient's demographic information?
- Patient resource (Correct answer)
- Encounter resource
- Condition resource
- Practitioner resource
Correct answer: Patient resource
The FHIR Patient resource stores demographic information such as name, date of birth, gender, and contact details.
Question 6: What is record locator service (RLS) used for in an HIE?
- Identifying which organizations hold records for a given patient (Correct answer)
- Storing backup copies of records
- Converting paper charts to digital format
- Billing insurance companies
Correct answer: Identifying which organizations hold records for a given patient
A Record Locator Service identifies and locates which participating organizations hold health records for a specific patient within an HIE.
EHR EHR Interoperability and Data Exchange 2
What does CDA stand for in health information exchange?