FREE CPHIMS Question and Answers

Question 1

Which of the following does a clinical informatics worker in an acute care setting normally NOT need to have knowledge of or experience with?

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quantitative statistics

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population health

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clinical medicine

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computer science

Question 2

What is an IT program management office's main responsibility?

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Provide executive leadership with a risk-managed enterprise project portfolio to keep them updated on the status of organizational initiatives.

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Manage resources, oversee project monitoring, and oversee direct administration of all IT projects for an organization.

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Create a comprehensive list of all IT projects being worked on at the company, and take responsibility for their completion.

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Assemble an exhaustive list of all IT projects being worked on within an organization, and take responsibility for their execution.

Question 3

Which of the following list items constitutes a clinical decision-support system's core elements?

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knowledge base, inference engine, and patient-specific information

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data repository, user interface, and artificial intelligence

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alters, reminders, and frequently asked questions

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data, information, and knowledge tools

Question 4

The emergency department (ED) of a healthcare organization continues to report that at least 25% of the time, its system is "down." System downtime was less than 1%, according to operations personnel who have been recording computer and application downtime every day for a month. Every time local IT professionals visited the ED throughout the day, they observed people successfully utilizing the system. Which of the following actions should the CIO take to fix the problem?

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Meet with important ED patients to get firsthand accounts of particular problems.

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Report the findings of the month-long downtime tracking in a formal manner and stop worrying about the problem.

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For a week, station an IT expert in the division to keep an eye on system usage.

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Ask ED personnel to record specifics of each experience with downtime in a problem log that is posted on the device.

Question 5

To further pinpoint potential system abuse, a healthcare institution has integrated application audit recording and reporting. Which of the following authorization tactics should yield the MOST valuable audit data while reducing false-positive outcomes?

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Implement role-based authorization

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Grant specific user-level privileges for services as required.

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Implement group-based authorization

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Grant specific user-level privileges to each service.

Question 6

A new results reporting system was recently unveiled by a local reference lab. Once test results are ready, the pathologist's report is immediately sent to the office of the ordering doctor. A systems analyst should look through the following to address patient care during the systems analysis phase:

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report turnaround times

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blood splash/exposure incident reports

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lab volume trend reports

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equipment calibration reports

Question 7

Which of the following examples will BEST help a presenter show how frequently certain kinds of problems can occur when a new program is used?

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histogram

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distribution curve

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control chart

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Gantt chart