Certified EHR Specialist Exam Questions And
Correct Answers
Most medical errors occur. - Answer Lost medical records, miscommunicated pt
requests, unreadable information & mislabeled lab specimens
Year HIPAA act started - Answer 1996
President who recommended HIT in 2004 - Answer George Bush
the goal for all Americans to be using EHR was to take place in how many years? -
Answer 10 years
ONCHIT - Answer Office of National Coordination for Health Information Technology
Why ONCHIT was established - Answer To have all Americans using EHR by 2014
HITSP - Answer recognized standards for the electronic exchange of health information
CCHIT - Answer developed certification criteria for EHR software
The institute of medicine suggests 8 core functions: - Answer Health information, results
management, order management, decision support, electronic communications, patient
support, administrative processes & reporting & population management
EMR - Answer Electronic Medical Records
,What are Electronic Medical Records? - Answer Computerized records of one
physician's encounter with a patient over time.
EHR - Answer Electronic Health Records
What are Electronic Health Records? - Answer Reflects data from all sources that have
treated the individual.
PHR - Answer Personal Health Records
Who Personal Health Records belong to? - Answer Maintained and owned by the patient.
Acute care - Answer hospital
Ambulatory care - Answer without admission to a hospital
Benefits of EHR-Answer safety, quality of care, efficiency & cost reduction
complete conversion-Answer enables patient data to be changed all at once
while continuing to service patients
incremental conversion - Anwer progressive switch to electronic records.
benefit of incremental conversion - Answer less expense & easier transition
hybrid conversion - Anwer combination of paper & electronic forms of data
clinical vocabularies - Answer standard set of definitions for medical terms
SNOMED-CT is for: Answer clinical vocabulary designed to encompass all terms used in
medicine and lab result contents
, LOINC Answer terms & codes used for electronic exchange of lab results & clinical
observations
UMLS Answer thesaurus database of medical terms
ICD-9 diagnosis usage - Answer 13,000, 3-5 alphanumeric codes for inpatient &
outpatient care
ICD-9 procedure usage - Answer 4,000, 3-4 numeric codes for inpatient care
ICD-10-CM diagnosis usage-Answer 120,000, 3-7 alphanumeric codes for inpatient &
outpatient care
ICD-10-PCS procedure usage- Answer 200,000, 7 alphanumeric codes for inpatient care
CPT- Answer Current Procedural Terminology
What is Current Procedural Terminology?-Answer coding procedural terminology
developed and maintained by the AMA
HCPCS- Answer Healthcare Common procedure Coding System
What is the Healthcare Common procedure Coding System? -Answer includes codes for
products, supplies & certain services not included in the CPT manual
Who maintains HCPCS? -Answer Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
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