Deck 19: Legislation

Question 1

The _________________________________________ oversees information- technology standards, implementation strategies, and impact assessment.

Answer 1

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
Rationale : The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) oversees information- technology standards, implementation strategies, and impact assessment. To receive the positive incentives and physicians and hospitals must use EHRs certified by ONCHIT (Tomes, 2010).

Question 2

Healthcare entities, as well as their business associates, must notify individuals whose health information is breached within 60 days of that breach. In which of the following cases does the entity not have to notify the individual whose information has been breached?

A)If data are anonymous
B)If data are encrypted
C)If data are misplaced in setting
D)If data are lab results

Answer 2

If data are encrypted

Question 3

Which act makes several significant changes to the current HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules and provides funds and incentives to increase the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by physicians and hospitals who meet eligibility criteria?

A)Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)
B)The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
C)Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA)
D)The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Answer 3

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)

Question 4

To receive financial incentives, hospitals and physician offices must meet designated criteria established by which organization?

A)Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
B)The Joint Commission
C)American Nurses Association
D)TIGER Initiative

Question 5

The need for informaticians who understand health care has grown. Which of the following best represents the future of nursing informatics?

A)The role of the nurse informatician will decrease in the future with an emphasis on medical informatics.
B)The need for nurse informaticians will increase in the future.
C)The need for nurses to specialize in informatics is unnecessary.
D)Nurses need advanced education to participate in the design and implementation of the information system.

Question 6

To comply with the mandate to use EHRs by 2014, physicians and hospitals must have the EHR prepared and ready for implementation. Which of the following methods are available to entities that will assist in the funding of the EHR?

A)Medicare and Medicaid
B)HIPAA
C)Consumer Digest Guidelines
D)American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Question 7

Which act eases the budgetary impact of EHR thereby facilitating implementation?

A)HIPAA
B)ARRA
C)ESIGN
D)HITECH

Question 8

Which of the following laws, signed by President Clinton in 2000, gives electronic signatures the same legal status as handwritten signatures?

A)The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
B)The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
C)Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA)
D)The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

Question 9

____________________________ is a specialty in nursing that focuses on the technology aspect of patient care.

Question 10

Which of the following skills are needed by nurse informaticists?

A)Communication
B)Mining data
C)Analyze data aggregates
D)Design in-case process
E)Design functional and clinically valid decision support

Question 11

MIPPA is an acronym for ___________________.

Question 12

HIPAA and HITECH have designated some technical standards as mandatory. Which of the following are associated with the implementation of standards?

A)The standards are insufficient to enable collection, management, and exchange of the mandated data.
B)Technical standards are needed to assure that structured and codified terminologies
C)Technical standards are needed to sufficiently capture all of health care
D)Standards must be widely available
E)Technical standards should be easily exchanged within and across organizations