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| Health Information management |
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| An allied health profession that is responsible for ensuring the availability, accuracy, and protection of the clinical information that is needed to deliver healthcare services and to make appropriate healthcare-related decisions |
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| Association of Record Librarians of North America |
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| Organization formed ten years after the beginning of the hospital standardization movement whose original objective was to elevate the standards of clinical record keeping in hospitals, dispensaries, and other healthcare facilities |
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| American Health Information Management Association |
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| What does AHIMA stand for? |
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| The professional membership organization for managers of health record services and healthcare information systems as well as coding services: provides accreditation, certification, and educational services |
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| What is ARLNA now known as? |
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What is health information?
a) information stored in a paper chart
b) anything related to any healthcare a patient has experienced
c) coded data submitted to support billing and any information required to further explain diagnoses and treatments
d) all of the above |
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Why is the Internet considered a valuable resource for HIM?
a) only medium available capable of handling the huge number of healthcare transactions
b) more people use the internet to gather information
c) it allows HIM to reduce department costs
d) it would increase service and customer satisfaction
e) problems with chart tracking and transportation would be resolved
f) shorten chart completion turnaround time
g) insurance companies could receive information more rapidly
h) all of the above
i) all but b and c |
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| hospital standardization, organization of records librarians, and the approval of formal education and certification programs |
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| What three steps developed the HIM profession? |
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| American College of Surgeons |
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| The scientific and educational association of surgeons formed to improve the quality of surgical care by setting high standards for surgical education and practice |
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| ARLNA first met in ____ in _______. |
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| The Hospital Standardization Program was implemented in ____ by the ____. |
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| Hospital Standardization Program |
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| An early twentith-century survey mechanism instituted by the American College of Surgeons and aimed at identifying quality-of-care problems and improving patient care |
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| Hospital Standardization Program was the precursor to _____. |
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| Joint commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
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| What does JCAHO stand for? |
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| A private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations on the basis of predefined performance standards |
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| What job was established with the implementation of the Hospital Standardization Program? |
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| a prescribed course of study in an educational program |
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| a voluntary process of institutional or organizational review in which a quasi independent body created for this purpose periodically evaluates the quality of the entity's work against preestablished written criteria |
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| A determination by an accrediting body that an elegible organization, network, program, group, or individual complies with applicable standards |
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| Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education |
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| What dos CAHIIM stand for? |
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| The accrediting organization for educational programs in health informatics and information management |
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| A curriculum for medical records clerk was established in _____, and the first schools were approved in ____. |
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| the process by which a duly authorized body evaluates and recognizes an individual, institution, or educational program as a meeeting predetermined requirements |
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| an evaluation performed to establish the extent to which a particular computer system, network design, or application implementation meets a prespecified set of requirements |
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| an arm of AHIMA that today fulfills the role of the Board of Registration, a certiciation board instituted in 1933 to provide a baseline by which to measure qualified medical record librarians |
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| An important component of the volunteer structure of AHIMA that conducts official business of the organization and functions as its legislative body |
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