Deck 12: Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use

Question 1

A Qualified EHR is an electronic record of healthcare-related information on a patient that includes all pertinent components of a medical record, such as:

A) demographics.
B) billing files.
C) history and physical.
D) both demographics and history and physical.
E) None of these is correct.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Overall, the EHR should:

A) improve quality.
B) decrease patient safety.
C) reduce health and wellness.
D) support fee-for-service health care.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is a main category of the EHR?

A) Source systems that collect data
B) Core clinical systems that enable the use of data
C) Lack of infrastructure to integrate data from applications
D) Both source systems that collect data and core clinical systems that enable the use of data
E) Both source systems that collect data and lack of infrastructure to integrate data from applications

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Point-of-Care (POC) charting systems are also known as:

A) clinical documentation systems.
B) hybrid documentation systems.
C) registration documentation systems.
D) CPOE.
E) None of these is correct.

Question 5

Under the Medicare EHR Incentive Payment Program, an EP is eligible for an incentive payment equal to an annual limit and equal to _____ of an EP's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule amount for a calendar year.

A) 65%
B) 75%
C) 85%
D) 55%

Question 6

The EP can file claims for the previous calendar year up to ___ month(s) after December 31.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
E) five

Question 7

Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) states that EPs have more than ___ of all unique patients, have at least one medication in their medication list, and at least one medication order entered using the CPOE.

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%

Question 8

The EP must provide more than ______ of all patient requests for an electronic copy of their medical records within three business days.

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%

Question 9

The EP must provide Clinical Summaries for more than _______ of the office visits to the patients within three days of the visit. If the EP does not provide office visits, they will be excluded from this objective.

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%

Question 10

More than __________ of the unique patients that the EP sees must have the patient's demographics recorded as structured data that include preferred language, race, ethnicity, gender, and date of birth. There is no exclusion for this objective.

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%
E) 80%

Question 11

The EP must have more than _________ of all unique patients seen with at least one entry that the patient is not being prescribed any medications. There are no exclusions for this objective.

A) 70%
B) 80%
C) 90%
D) 95%
E) None of these is correct.

Question 12

For more than _____ of the patients that the EP sees that are 2 years of age and older, the patient's height, weight, and blood pressure are recorded in the EHR and are available as structured data. EPs can be excluded from this objective if they do not see any patients that are 2 years of age or older, or if the EP does not believe that these vital signs are relevant to the scope of the practice.

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%
E) 60%

Question 13

In Clinical Quality Measures Stage 2, for the EHR incentive program, an EP must report on ___ CQMs out of a possible list of 64 approved CQMs.

A) 8
B) 9
C) 10
D) 11

Question 14

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is not an easy thing to define. Over the years, it has been thought that an EHR is a system where pages of a medical record are scanned into a system. This is more in the line of a document imaging system that will lead to a hybrid-style EHR.

Question 15

These registries are disease related and procedure related to including cancer registries, diabetes registries, and immunization registries. These registries are often maintained by medical specialty or a public health department.

Question 16

CMS has created an incentive program that will provide financial incentives for the "meaningful use" of a certified EHR for Medicare and Medicaid providers.

Question 17

The Medicare EHR Incentive Program makes available incentive payments to Medicare Eligible (ME) professionals who are taking part in the meaningful use program, using a certified program for their EHR, and are Doctors of Medicine or Osteopathy, but excludes Doctors of Oral Surgery or Dental Medicine.

Question 18

An EP who participates in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program may not participate in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).

Question 19

The EP must enable this functionality during the entire reporting period and automatically check for potentially adverse drug-drug or drug-allergy interactions. There are no exclusions for this objective.

Question 20

CMS defines an attestation as "a legal statement that the EP has met the thresholds and all the requirements of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program."