Certified Coding Associate (CCA) Exam
Preparation Domain V - Information
Technologies
A hospital is planning on allowing coding professionals to work
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in the process of identifying agencies to minimize the security risks associated with this
practice. Which of the following would be best to ensure that data breaches are
minimized when the home computer is unattended?
- User name and password
- Automatic session termination
- Cable locks
- Encryption - Answer-Automatic session termination
A coding analyst consistently enters the wrong code for patient gender in the electronic
billing system. What data quality or data integrity measures should be in place to ensure
that only allowable code numbers are entered?
- Access controls
- Audit trails
- Edit checks
- Password controls - Answer-Edit Checks
Which of the following would be the best technique to ensure that registration clerks
consistently use the correct notation for assigning admission date in an electronic health
record (EHR)?
- Make admission date a required field
- Provide an input mask for entering data in the field
- Make admission date a numeric field
- Provide sufficient space for input of data - Answer-Provide an input mask for entering
data in the field
Which of the following is not an element of data quality?
- Accessibility
- Data Backup
- Precision
- Relevancy - Answer-Data backup
The protection measures and tools for safeguarding information and information
systems is a definition of:
- Confidentiality
- Data security
- Informational privacy
- Informational access control - Answer-data security
Computer software programs that assist in the assignment of codes used with
diagnostic and procedural classifications are called:
- Natural-language processing systems
- monitoring/audit programs
- Encoders
- Concept, description, and relationship tables - Answer-encoders
A special webpage that offers secure access to data is called a(n):
- access control
- home page
- intranet
- portal - Answer-portal
One form of ____________ uses software to aid the physician in selecting the correct
code with processes such as drop-down boxes or the use of touch-screen terminals
- integrated workflow process
- computer-assisted coding
- electronic document management system
- speech recognition system - Answer-computer-assisted coding
One form of ________ computer assisted coding may use, which means that digital text
from online documents stored in the information system is read directly by the software,
which then suggests codes to match the documentation
- encoded vocabulary
- natural-language processing
- data exchange standards
- structured reports - Answer-natural-language processing
Which of the following tasks may not be performed in an electronic health record
system?
- Document imaging
- Analysis
- Assembly
- Indexing - Answer-Assembly
Electronic systems used by nurses and physicians to document assessments and
findings are called:
- Computerized provider order entry
- Electronic document management systems
- Electronic medication administration records
- Electronic patient care charting - Answer-Electronic patient care charting
Data definition refers to:
- Meaning of data
- Completeness of data
- Consistency of data
- Detail of data - Answer-Meaning of data
An encoder that is built using expert system techniques such as rule-based systems is
a(n):
- encoder interface
- Logic-based encoder
- Automated code book encoder
- Grouper - Answer-Logic-based encoder
Good encoding software should include ________ to ensure data quality.
- Edit checks
- Voice recognition
- Reimbursement technology
- Passwords - Answer-Edit checks
The key data element for linking data about an individual who is seen in a variety of
care settings is the:
- Facility medical record number
- Facility identification number
- Unique patient identifier
- Patient birth date - Answer-unique patient identifier
Which of the following make data entry easier but may harm data quality?..
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