AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 131:

  Which of the following is an example of the breach of confidentiality?

  A. a nurse speaking with the physician in the patient's room
  B. staff members discussing patients in the elevator
  C. the admission clerk verifying over the phone that the patient is in-house
  D. the hospital operator paging code blue in room 3 north
  B. staff members discussing patients in the elevator

• Question 132:

  Technologies that can make data capture easier include all but which one of the following?

  A. digital dictation
  B. direct data capture from a medical device attached to the HIM employee
  C. handheld wireless devices
  D. speech recognition
  B. direct data capture from a medical device attached to the HIM employee

• Question 133:

  When the physician failed to give the patient the lips of the famous actress she requested, the physician engaged in which of the following?

  A. slander.
  B. a breach of contract.
  C. libel.
  D. invasion of privacy.
  B. a breach of contract.

• Question 134:

  The committee that is preparing your acute care hospital for an electronic health record planning for an imaging system for record archiving in the immediate future. They are looking a solution for data interfacing or integration of the imaging system into other computer systems You recommend

  A. data dictionary guidelines.
  B. Health Level 7 standards.
  C. Regional Health Information Organization guidelines.
  D. Joint Commission standards.
  B. Health Level 7 standards.

• Question 135:

  The following "sentinel events" must be available for Joint Commission review EXCEPT

  A. infant abduction.
  B. petechiae due to adverse drug reaction.
  C. rape.
  D. surgery on wrong patient or wrong body part.
  B. petechiae due to adverse drug reaction.

• Question 136:

  Aphakia penetrating corneal transplant

  A. 65755
  B. 65730
  C. 65750
  D. 65765
  C. 65750

• Question 137:

  Joint Commission requires that medical record review be performed to evaluate adequacy, accuracy, completeness, and quality of documentation

  A. annually.
  B. every 2 years.
  C. on an ongoing basis.
  D. quarterly.
  C. on an ongoing basis.

• Question 138:

  The IRB has approved Dr. Grant's research with the stipulation that only a limited data set is provided. Which of the following would be a violation of the requirement to remove direct identifiers?

  A. street address
  B. discharge disposition
  C. admission date
  D. diagnosis
  A. street address

• Question 139:

  Under the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, advance directives

  A. are required to be included in the patient chart.
  B. are not required to be included in the patient chart.
  C. require a doctor's approval.
  D. must be prepared by an attorney.
  B. are not required to be included in the patient chart.

• Question 140:

  You are trying to improve communications with your staff by posting graphs of signs statistics on the employee bulletin board. You recently calculated the percentage of employees spend on each of six major tasks. Because you would like the employees to appreciate each task as a percentage of their whole day, you will post these figures using a

  A. line graph.
  B. bar graph.
  C. scatter diagram.
  D. pie graph.
  D. pie graph.