RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician Health Information Systems Questions and Answers

Question 1

An EHR system automatically generates an alert for a physician who attempts to prescribe a medication to which the patient has a documented allergy.
This functionality is a primary example of which type of health information system component?

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Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

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Master Patient Index (MPI)

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Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

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Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

Question 2

A primary care clinic needs to send a patient's summary of care record to a specialist at a different facility that uses a separate EHR system. To ensure the receiving system can process and interpret the data correctly, which standard is most commonly used for structuring this clinical document exchange?

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Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA)

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DICOM

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ANSI X12

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NCPDP Script

Question 3

A hospital is preparing for a new EHR go-live. The implementation team decides to activate the new system in the emergency department first, followed by the inpatient units one month later, and outpatient clinics the month after that. This go-live strategy is known as:

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Phased conversion

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Big bang conversion

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Parallel conversion

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Pilot conversion

Question 4

To ensure that data elements such as 'Patient Gender' and 'State of Residence' are captured consistently across all applications within a healthcare enterprise, a health system should develop and maintain a comprehensive:

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Data dictionary

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System log

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Interface engine

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Data warehouse

Question 5

A radiologist needs to view a patient's CT scan images, which are integrated into the EHR. The specialized information system that acquires, stores, retrieves, and displays these medical images is known as a:

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Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

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Laboratory Information System (LIS)

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Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)

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Radiology Information System (RIS)

Question 6

A provider at an urgent care center needs to access the records of a new patient who is visiting from out of state. The provider uses the regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) to search for and retrieve the patient's recent lab results and medication history from their primary care physician. This HIE model is best described as:

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Query-based exchange

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Directed exchange

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Consumer-mediated exchange

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Hybrid exchange