Deck 11: Health Care Information System Standards

Question 1

Which standards development method occurs when a group of interested people or organizations agrees on a certain specification without any formal adoption process?

A)Ad hoc
B)De facto
C)Government mandate
D)Consensus

Answer 1

Ad hoc

Question 2

Which standard set has the potential to accelerate health care IT interoperability as it goes beyond the function of a traditional messaging system and includes modern web services to exchange clinical information?

A)Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
B)Continuity of Care Document (CCD)
C)Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
D)HL7 Health Record-System Functional Model

Answer 2

Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

Question 3

Which knowledge sources of the UMLS project contains concepts from more than one hundred source vocabularies and strives to incorporate and map existing vocabularies into a single system?

A)UMLS Metathesaurus
B)UMLS Semantic Network
C)Specialist Lexicon and Lexical Tools
D)None of the above

Answer 3

UMLS Metathesaurus

Question 4

Which of the following primary HL7 standards is a document markup standard for clinical information exchange among providers?

A)Clinical Document Architecture
B)Continuity of Care Document
C)Clinical Context Object Workgroup
D)None of the above

Question 5

__________ are the sets of rules for what should be included for the needed function and system level.

A)Frameworks
B)Implementation guides
C)Standards
D)None of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of a "profiling body"?

A)World Wide Web Consortium
B)American National Standards Institute
C)Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
D)All of the above are profiling bodies

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT considered health care data?

A)Payment advice
B)Claims status
C)Provider directories
D)All of the above are considered health care data

Question 8

The goal of which standard below is to enable disparate health information systems to communicate with one another in an unambiguous manner.

A)SNOMED CT
B)LOINC
C)RxNorm
D)All of the above have been recommended

Question 9

Who is principle entity responsible for implementation for health care IT standards for interoperability?

A)ATSM International
B)HL7 International
C)ANSI
D)ONC

Question 10

Who is responsible for the development,maintenance,and modification of relevant electronic data interchange standards?

A)Standards developing organizations (SDOs)
B)Designated standard maintenance organizations (DSMOs)
C)International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
D)Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

Question 11

Which standards development method occurs when a vendor of other commercial enterprise controls such a large segment of the market that its produce becomes the recognized norm?

A)Ad hoc
B)De facto
C)Government mandate
D)Consensus

Question 12

Which of the following terminology standards have NOT been recommended by NCVHS?

A)SNOMED CT
B)LOINC
C)RxNorm
D)All of the above have been recommended

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the six parts in the LOINC name structure?

A)Property measured
B)Time aspect
C)Scale type
D)Product category

Question 14

What is the universal product identifier for all human drugs?

A)Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
B)National Drug Code (NDC)
C)National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language (UMLS)
D)None of the above

Question 15

Employing standards developing organizations (SDOs) is characteristic of which standards development method?

A)Ad hoc
B)De facto
C)Government mandate
D)Consensus