Week #10 Electronic Health Records Worksheet
Part 1:
A. Jane and John work as Medical Assistants in a physician’s office that still uses paper records. They discuss some of the benefits that converting to an EHR system would provide for practice management. They make a list of benefits for converting to an electronic health record system. What might have been included on their list? (at least five valid reasons, 5 points.)
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B. The office has decided to make the conversion to an EHR system. Once all of the paper records have been converted to electronic form, what should be done with the original paper charts? (5 points)
PART 2: Multiple Choice
Select the best answer to the multiple choice Questions answer, save and upload the file.
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1. A goal of the HITECH Act was to promote the adoption of the EHRs by health care providers and organizations. What was an initiative to augment the implementation and use of EHRs?
a. direct purchase of electronic health record systems for providers
. provided incentives for organizations that demonstrated meaningful use of electronic health record systems
c. levy fines on organizations that failed to implement an EHR system
d. allow EHR vendors to promote their products
2. A patient is concerned about her lab test results and asks you how she can access her lab tests using the EHR. Which of the electronic record functions listed below would you direct her to?
a. Electronic Health Record
. Electronic Medical Record
c. Patient Portal
d. Laboratory Information System
3. Which President was the first to promote initiatives to support the adoption of Health Information Technology to US Healthcare?
a. President Bush
. President Clinton
c. President Obama
d. President Trump
4. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA) was enacted in 2009.
. The incentive programs for attestation to meaningful use failed to achieve a significant increase in the rate of EHR adoption.
c. The HITECH Act supports the use of Health Information Technology (HIT) with the concept of electronic health records – meaningful use (MU), an effort led by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
d. HITECH proposes the meaningful use of interoperable electronic health records throughout the United States health care delivery system as a critical national goal.
5. Which of the following is NOT true about the paper medical record?
a. Can be easily destroyed
. Can be used for one task at a time
c. Allows for the sharing of information
d. Can be misplaced or misfiled
6. Which of the following is NOT true of electronic medical records
a. Can be amended
. It is owned by the provider who created it
c. The patient may request a copy
d. The information in an EHR can never be destroyed
7. The concept of meaningful use rested on the ‘5 pillars’ of health outcomes policy priorities, which of the following represent these pillars?
a. Improving quality, safety, efficiency, and reducing health disparities
. Engage patients and families in their health
c. Improve care coordination
d. Improve population and public health
e. All of the above are pillars of meaningful use.
8. At the close of the business day, a process is started which makes a copy of the computer files and send it to a secondary location for preservation in case of equipment failure or natural disaster. This process is called__.
a. Audit trails
. Access routes
c. Authentication measures
d. Data backup procedures
9. What is the prime purpose for an EHR system be certified?
a. Gives assurance to purchasers that the features necessary to meet the meaningful use criteria and interoperability are in the program.
. To receive incentive payments
c. So vendors can promote their products
d. To help providers choose the system with the best features
10. Which of the following is true?
a. The majority of providers have adopted certified EHRs
. The majority of providers have opted out of EHRs
c. The majority of providers have adopted noncertified EHRs because of the cost of certified EHRs
d. All of the above are false.
11. Which of the following is NOT an example of EHR interoperability?
a. The patient’s lab reports are faxed to her provide
. The patient’s lab test results are available on the patient portal
c. Laboratory transmitting results to a hospital electronically
d. The tele-radiologist reads the X-Rays of a small rural hospital hundreds of miles away.
12. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of the lack of standardized healthcare data collection?
a. Healthcare providers cannot share data efficiently.
. There are increased concerns for patient safety by the public as well as healthcare providers.
c. Patients need to use PHRs to maintain their own records.
d. Administrative costs are increased by requiring repetitive efforts for collecting the same data.
13. Which of the following can the medical staff typically do using an electronic health record system?
a. locate possible contraindications with prescribed medications
. allow two or more staff members to access the same patient file at the same time
c. access charts more quickly
d. send a patient an email appointment reminde
e. all of the above
14. Which of the following is a reason that patients may want to access their own medical records online?
a. view a list of their cu
ent medications
. view the date of their influenza vaccination
c. read their cu
ent lab test report
d. see the results of a diagnostic XRAY report
e. all of the above
15. What of the following is an example of point of care documentation?
a. the ability of patients to access their medical records online
. the patient
ings a chart of self-monitored blood glucose readings to the office visit
c. the phlebotomist draws blood from the patient
d. the medical assistant weighs the patient during an office encounte
e. all of the above are co
ect
16. All of the following are benefits of using an EHR except
a. communicating between staff members.
. health maintenance.
c. advertising purposes.
d. putting records online.
e. avoiding medical e
ors.
17. What is the best reason for converting paper medical records to an electronic format?
a. easier for staff to use
. patient safety
c. saves time
d. communication with staff
e. health maintenance
18. How frequently should computers containing EHR information be backed up?
a. every hou
. every four hours
c. every day
d. every two days
e. every week
19. What is the name of the legislative act that provided financial incentives to providers who implement EHRs and meet meaningful use criteria?
a. HIPAA
. CBO
c. ONC
d. HITECH
e. CPOE
20. Which of the following is a common system component of the electronic health record for the ambulatory setting?
a. Billing function
. Patient scheduling functions
c. Scheduling reminders functions
d. all of the above
Week #10 Electronic Health Records Worksheet
Part 1:
A.
Jane and John work as
Medical Assistants
in a
physician’s
office that still uses paper records.
They
discuss some of the benefits that converting to an EHR system
would provide for practice management.
They make a
list of
enefits
for converting to
an
electronic health record
system
.
What might have been
included on their list?
(at least
five valid re
asons
, 5 poin
ts
.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
B.
The office has decided to make the conversion to
an
E
H
R system.
Once all
of the paper
ecords have
een converted
to electron
ic form
,
what should be done with the original paper charts?
(5 points)
PART
2
: Multiple Choice
Sel
ect the
est
a
nswer to the multiple
c
hoice Questions
answer, save and upload the file.
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1.
A goal of the HITECH Act was to
promote the adoption of the
EHRs by health care providers and
organizations. What was an initiative to augment the
implementation and use of EHRs?
a.
direct
purchase
of
electronic health record systems
for providers
. provided incentives for organizations
that demonstrated meaningful
use
of
electronic health
ecord systems
Week #10 Electronic Health Records Worksheet
Part 1:
A. Jane and John work as Medical Assistants in a physician’s office that still uses paper records. They
discuss some of the benefits that converting to an EHR system would provide for practice management.
They make a list of benefits for converting to an electronic health record system. What might have been
included on their list? (at least five valid reasons, 5 points.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
B. The office has decided to make the conversion to an EHR system. Once all of the paper records have
een converted to electronic form, what should be done