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Question 1

Which IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) profile defines a standardized method for sharing clinical documents in a federated HIE environment?

Accepted Answer

XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing)

Answer

XDS defines how clinical documents are registered, stored, and retrieved across healthcare enterprises in a federated model.

Question 2

A patient visits an emergency department and the care team needs lab results from a visit three months ago at another hospital. Which HIE exchange paradigm would most efficiently retrieve this data?

Accepted Answer

Query/retrieve (pull) exchange

Answer

Query/retrieve exchange allows providers to proactively search for and pull patient data from other organizations on demand.

Question 3

What does TEFCA stand for in the context of U.S. health information exchange policy?

Accepted Answer

Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement

Answer

TEFCA establishes a common framework to enable nationwide health information exchange across different networks.

Question 4

Which data element is most critical for accurate patient matching in an HIE when a national patient identifier does not exist?

Accepted Answer

Combination of demographics such as name, date of birth, and address

Answer

Probabilistic or deterministic matching relies on multiple demographic data points to reduce misidentification errors.

Question 5

Which FHIR operation allows a client to retrieve a patient's complete health summary including medications, problems, and allergies in a single request?

Accepted Answer

$everything

Answer

The $everything operation on a Patient resource returns all resources related to that patient in a single bundle.

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