mock exam

Question 1

monitoring results

Answer 1

Monitoring results enables a hospital to understand if the present system is currently supporting the organization’s needs and whether the next step, identify needs, will set in motion new or further development or acquisition of health IT.

Question 2

Bar graph

Answer 2

Bar graphs are used to display data from one or more variables. The bars may be drawn vertically or horizontally. Bar charts are used for nominal or ordinal variables. In this case, you would be displaying the average length of stay by service and then within each service have a bar for each gender

Question 3

Application service provider (ASP)

Answer 3

In an application service provider (ASP) model, there is much less upfront capital outlay and fewer IT staff required in-house. In fact, the ASP acquisition strategy may be considered essentially a financing model

Question 4

Job shadowing

Answer 4

Job shadowing is a method in which one employee follows another employee to observe certain functions of their job. The intent is that the experienced employee educates the new employee on specific aspects of their job

Question 5

Data conversion

Answer 5

refers to the fact that data is already automated in one system but needs to be put into another, most often new, system—which is not always an easy task depending on the nature of the software and application programming language used.

Question 6

Chart conversion

Answer 6

or transition refers to converting data on paper to electronic form and data processing refers to processing any data on a computer.

Question 7

Work distribution

Answer 7

The work distribution chart should be completed by the employee and it includes all responsible task content as well as hours spent on tasks over a designated period of time

Question 8

Medicare Part A

Answer 8

Hospital, Home health, Hospice, SNF, long term

Question 9

Medicare Part B

Answer 9

Physician, lab, home health, outpatient. AKA medical cover

Question 10

Medicare Part C

Answer 10

Advantage (HMO, PPO, PFFS, SNP)

Question 11

Medicare Part D

Answer 11

Drugs

Question 12

Medigap

Answer 12

Purchase private insurance to supplement Part A and B

Question 13

Medicaid

Answer 13

State can develop its own Medicaid program.
Low income
Children
Infants born to Medicaid eligible parents

Question 14

TRICARE

Answer 14

AKA Champus. Care about the military and their families.

Question 15

TRICARE standard

Answer 15

Can use any civilian provider

Question 16

TRICARE Extra

Answer 16

Represents a PPO

Question 17

TRICARE Prime

Answer 17

Must choose a Primary care provider and obtain referrals (HMO).

Question 18

Data provenance

Answer 18

refers to the ability to track the source of data.

Question 19

In-service education

Answer 19

a continuous process that builds on the basic skills learned through new employee orientation and on-the-job training. In-service education is concerned with teaching employees specific skills and behaviors required to maintain job performance or to retrain workers whose jobs have changed

Question 20

Payment reduction for facilities that fail to successfully meet the requirements of Medicare’s quality reporting programs

Answer 20

Facilities failing to meet the Medicare Quality Reporting Requirements will receive a 2% reduction in their Medicare payments

Question 21

Shift differential

Answer 21

Many employers pay a slightly higher hourly wage to employees who work less desirable shifts (evening, night, weekend).

Question 22

Surveys

Answer 22

should be written at the reading level of the respondents, consistent formats should be used, all possible responses should be mutually exclusive, and terminology that the respondents understand should be incorporated.

Question 23

Administrative safeguards

Answer 23

are people-focused and include requirements such as training and assignment of an individual responsible for security

Question 24

Pareto chart

Answer 24

a kind of bar graph that uses data to determine priorities in problem-solving. The Pareto principle states that 80 percent of costs or problems are caused by 20 percent of the patients or staff

Question 25

The gross death rate

Answer 25

the basic indicator of mortality in a healthcare facility.
dividing the total number of deaths occurring in a given time period by the total number of discharges, including deaths, for the same time period: 25/500 = 0.05 × 100 = 5%

Question 26

Case-mix index

Answer 26

The weight of each MS-DRG is multiplied by the number of discharges for that MS-DRG to arrive at the total weight for each MS-DRG.

Question 27

Capitated rate

Answer 27

is a method of payment for health services in which the third-party payer reimburses providers a fixed, per capita amount for a period. Per capita means per head or per person. A common phrase in capitated contracts is per member per month (PMPM). The PMPM is the amount of money paid each month for each individual enrolled in the health insurance plan. Capitation is characteristic of HMOs