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1
Q

Health Maintenance Alerts can be used for which of the following:

A. Tracking Immunizations
B. Tracking Adherence to Medication Protocols
C. Tracking Routine Screening Tests
D. Managing patients with chronic diseases

A

Answer

A. Tracking Immunizations
C. Tracking Routine Screening Tests
D. Managing patients with chronic diseases

2
Q

T or F

When a patient becomes due for preventive care, the system displays an alert to clinician.

A

Answer

True

3
Q

Name three places a Health Maintenance Alert might appear.

A

Answer

  1. Patient Header
  2. Health Maintenance Activity
  3. Patient List
  4. Snapshot and other reports
  5. The multiple provider schedule
4
Q

T or F

Health Maintenance is used primarily to keep track of patient lab results.

A

Answer

False. Health Maintenance is used primarily as a preventative health tool.

5
Q

Health Maintenance works in conjunction with which of the following, to provide a means to quickly perform actions relevant to addressing patient care gaps

A. The Care Gap Report Management Console
B. Smartsets
C. Best Practice Advisories
D. MyChart Notifications

A

Answer

B. Smartsets
C. Best Practice Advisories

6
Q

The master file that defines the “when” and “what” of a Health Maintenance reminder is the:

A. Health Maintenance Plan, aka HMP
B. Health Maintenance Topic, aka HMT
C. Health Maintenance Section, aka HMS
D. Health Information Series, aka HIS
E. None of the above
A

Answer

B. Health Maintenance Topic, aka HMT

7
Q

The master file that defines the population that should be included in a topic is the:

A. Health Information Series, aka HIS
B. Health Maintenance Plan, aka HMP
C. Health Maintenance Section, aka HMS
D. Health Maintenance Topic, aka HMT

A

Answer

B. Health Maintenance Plan, aka HMP

8
Q

T or F

A provider can always override a Health Maintenance Topic by going to the Health Maintenance Activity

A

Answer

False. Some HM Topics do not allow for overrides.

9
Q

T or F

A provider is allowed to postpone a Health Maintenance Topic in the Health Maintenance Activity.

A

Answer

True, if the HM Topic has the “Allow topic postpones” box checked.

10
Q

Which of the following statements is true about modifying the frequency of a Health Maintenance Topic?

A. This is not allowed in Epic. Schedules are set at the system level and cannot be changed.
B. The patient must give his consent in order for the frequency to be modified.
C. The provider can change the frequency in the Health Maintenance Activity or from the Patient’s Snapshot report.
D. The provider can change the frequency in the Health Maintenance Activity.

A

Answer

D. The provider can change the frequency in the Health Maintenance Activity.

11
Q

A Health Maintenance ________ is a criteria that HM can use to include or exclude a patient from certain populations.

A

Answer

Modifier

12
Q

Which of the following are among the most common actions taken by end users in the Health Maintenance activity?

A. Postpone/Decline
B. Override
C. Edit Frequency
D. Edit Modifiers
E. All of the above
F. 1 and 2 only
G. 2 and 4 only
A

Answer

E. All of the above.

13
Q

T or F

Which of the following statements is true about the “type” field for a HM Topic?

A. You can change the “type” field as long as the record has not been released yet.
B. You can change the “type” only if you create a new contact for the record.
C. You can change the “type” by clicking the “Back” button at the bottom right of the screen.
D. The type field can never be changed once it is initially set.

A

Answer

D. The type field can never be changed once it is initially set.

14
Q

When building a new HM Topic, the Completing Actions tab shows which ___________ will satisfy the HM . (Choose two)

A. Diagnosis
B. E/M Code
C. LOS
D. Type of provider

A

Answer

B. E/M Code
C. LOS

Also, procedures can complete the HM.

15
Q

T or F

HM Topic records are never released or activated.

A

Answer

True

16
Q

Which of the following is true about HM Modifiers?

A. Third party companies provide a record with all allowed HM Modifiers.
B. HM Modifiers are values in a category list.
C. HM Modifiers are updated once per year by CMS.
D. HM Modifiers are updated once per year by Epic.

A

Answer

B. HM Modifiers are values in a category list.

17
Q

How does Epic recommend that HM Modifiers be assigned to patient records?

A. Manually by the end user
B. Automatically by a CER rule
C. Automatically by an WE rule
D. Via a Best Practice Advisory

A

Answer

D. Automatically via a Best Practice Advisory

18
Q

If you make a mistake when adding HM Modifiers as a bulk action, you should:

A. Immediately run the “undo” utility to back out your changes..
B. Start crying because there is no bulk action to remove modifiers.
C. Contact your Epic TS so they can fix your mistake using system tools not available to you.
D. Contact an HIM team member as they are the only ones who can cancel bulk action changes.

A

Answer

B. Start crying because there is no bulk action to remove modifiers.

You will have to go into each patients chart and manually remove the modifier(s).

19
Q

T or F

You can assign a modifier to, or remove a Modifier from a group of patient records by running a Subset Utility with search parameters that must be met.

A

Answer

True

20
Q

T or F

Epic recommends a 1 to 1 relationship for Topics and Plans.

A

Answer

True

21
Q

HM topics built with a single completing action (or collections of related actions, such as a diagnosis grouper) allow clinicians to ________ or ________ a topic without impacting other unrelated topics.

A

Answer

Override
Postpone

22
Q

T or F

HM plans linked to a single HM topic force administrators to define which patients should be included or excluded for a topic.

A

Answer

False

This setup allows an administrator flexibility when defining which patients should be included or excluded for a topic

23
Q

If you link more than one HM Plan to one HM Topic, you should:

A. make sure all patients belong to all the plans
B. make sure that the HM plans do not overlap in their populations
C. make sure that the HM Topics do not contain any of the same grouper records in the completing actions tab.
D. make sure that all the HM Topics have the “Allow Multiple Plans” item checked.

A

Answer

B. make sure that the HM plans do not overlap in their populations

24
Q

T or F

In order to be recognized by HM, patients must be listed as an EpicCare Patient in the Demographics activity.

A

Answer

True

25
Q

Chapter Review Question

Where could you define that an HM topic should apply to a patient from the date they quit smoking?

A. Base Date
B. Start Time
C. From age
D. Earliest age

A

Answer

A. Base Date

26
Q

Chapter Review Question

How could you let the system know that an HM topic should apply to a patient 30 days after the date they quit smoking?

A

Answer

Define the Base date which lists the date the patient quit smoking, then enter “30 days” into the Start time.

27
Q

If you built a single HM topic and put completing actions of several varied lab procedures in it (such as all routine tests for patients with COPD), could a clinician override some of the topic if their patient had
already completed a few of those tests? Why?

A

Answer

No, once an HM topic has been overridden or postponed, that instruction applies to all of the completing actions within that topic. It is Epic’s
recommendation to create one topic per plan when possible to avoid situations such as this.