AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1791:

  Rita Mizner, MBA, RHIA, is Director of Information Services for Mt. Sinai Medical Center. She is well respected for a management style that empowers her staff. All of the following are characteristics of effective delegation, EXCEPT

  A. explaining exactly what needs to be done.
  B. agreeing on performance standards.
  C. providing necessary resources.
  D. retaining authority to make key decisions.
  D. retaining authority to make key decisions.

• Question 1792:

  Who determines the retention, period for health records?

  A. state and federal governments
  B. medical staff
  C. city and state governments
  D. commercial storage vendors
  A. state and federal governments

• Question 1793:

  The nursing staff would most likely use which of the following to facilitate aggregation of data for comparison at local, regional, national, and international levels?

  A. READ codes.
  B. ABC codes.
  C. SPECIALIST Lexicon.
  D. LOINC.
  B. ABC codes.

• Question 1794:

  Which one of the following is NOT considered a challenge in the adoption of an electronic health record system?

  A. executive commitment and support
  B. physician willingness to adopt
  C. contribution to the quality of patient care
  D. individual state legal and regulatory issues
  C. contribution to the quality of patient care

• Question 1795:

  Full-blown AIDS sets in as

  A. CD4 receptors increase.
  B. Helper T-cell concentration decreases.
  C. HIV virus concentration decreases.
  D. Immunity to HIV increases.
  B. Helper T-cell concentration decreases.

• Question 1796:

  The use of personal signature stamps for authentication of entries in a paper-based record requires special measures to guard against delegated use of the stamp. In a completely computerized patient record system, similar rmeasures might be utilized to govern the use of

  A. fingerprint signatures.
  B. voice recognition systems.
  C. expert systems.
  D. electronic signatures.
  D. electronic signatures.

• Question 1797:

  Pain is a symptom of which of the following conditions?

  A. first-degree burn (superficial)
  B. second-degree burn (partial thickness)
  C. third-degree burn (full thickness)
  D. A and B
  D. A and B

• Question 1798:

  Which of the following elements of negligence must be present in order to recover damages?

  A. duty of care; breach of duty of care; value attached to injury is greater than a certain value (ordinarily $1,000); provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule have been met
  B. duty of care; breach of the duty of care; suffered an injury; value attached to injury is greater than a certain value (ordinarily $1,000)
  C. duty of care; breach of duty of care; suffered an injury; defendant's conduct caused the plaintiff harm
  D. breach of duty of care; suffered an injury; value attached to injury is greater than a certain value (ordinarily $1,000); provision of H1PAA Privacy Rule have been met
  C. duty of care; breach of duty of care; suffered an injury; defendant's conduct caused the plaintiff harm

• Question 1799:

  Which of the organs listed below has endocrine and exocrine functions?

  A. kidney.
  B. liver
  C. lung
  D. pancreas
  D. pancreas

• Question 1800:

  Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital is considered one of the benchmark cases in health care because it was with this case that the doctrine of _______ was eliminated for nonprofit hospitals.

  A. charitable immunity
  B. corporate negligence
  C. professional negligence
  D. contributory negligence
  A. charitable immunity