1. The HIM supervisor is evaluat ing software that would ut ilize elect ronic logging and monitoring of requests for copies of patient information. What department function is this most useful for?

2. Choosing to be in the directory means which of the following?

3. Pathologist bills for gross and microscopic examination of medial meniscus.

4. Which of the following is a true statement regarding psychotherapy notes?

5. Jason collected data on the length of stay (LOS) for 10 patients and then determined the LOS as follows: What is wrong with Jason's determination of the median?

6. At our integrated delivery system, the hospital and clinic have separate networks. There are times when they need to share information across the network. This can be accomplished with a

7. Phyllis saw Dr. Holland during a scheduled office visit. Dr. Holland prescribed a new medication; Jean called Dr. Holland with a question about her medication. Dr. Holland returned the telephone call and answered Jean's question; Howard was seen by Dr. Holland in the hospital emergency department after having a reaction to his medication; the pharmacy got telephone approval from Dr. Horton for a refill on Jackson's prescription. Which of these interactions fit the definition of a patient encounter?

8. Mother brings her 1-year-old in for the influenza split virus vaccine. Physician discusses merits of the vaccine with the mother.

9. A data use agreement allows the organization receiving the data to

10. A 21-year-old employee of National Services was treated in an acute care hospital for an illness unrelated to work. A representative from the personnel department of National Services calls to request information regarding the employee's diagnosis. What would be the appropriate course of action?

11. A patient asked for an amendment to her medical record. The hospital has denied the request. According to HIPAA, this can be done if

12. Patient came in for excision of a middle ear lesion.

13. Who is legally responsible for obtaining the patient's informed consent for surgery?

14. Maria has received a request to update a patient's insurance number. She accesses the______ and updates the system. What system is she using?

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

16. An example of a system analysis tool is

17. Mandatory reporting requirements for vital statistics generally

18. The hospital has a policy that states, Original medical records may be removed from the Medical Record Department jurisdiction only by court order." Which situation would be a violation of the policy?"

19. Patient with Parkinson's disease is admitted for insertion of a brain neurostimulator pulse generator with one electrode array.

20. Laparoscopic repair of umbilical hernia

21. Clotting factor VII

22. Case Study #3 A 73-year-old male was admitted to the Sunset Nurcing Facility with senility, cataracts, and S/P cerebrovascular accident with right-side hemiplegia. On his second day at the facility, the resident was discovered to have extensive thermal burns on his buttocks and legs by one of the facility

23. Modified radical mastoidectomy

24. If there are 150,000 medical records and the Health Information Department receives 3,545 requests for records in a week, what percentage of the records are requested weekly?

25. If HIPAA and state law conflicts, which prevails: