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HIM 101 final exam Questions with Complete Solutions Master Patient Index (MPI) - Correct Answers ✅permanent record of every patient that has been treated at that healthcare facility MPI functions - Correct Answers ✅primary guide to locating pertinent demographic data about the patient and his/her health record number Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) - Correct Answers ✅references all patients in two or more facilities Registration, Admission, Discharge, Transfer (R-ADT) - Correct Answers ✅- patient registration system

• functions as the MPI
• ability to access data by more than one indiv. at a time

Duplicate Medical Record Number - Correct Answers ✅assigns a patient a new medical record number when the patient already has an existing medical record number Overlay - Correct Answers ✅patient is assigned another patient's medical record number or medical information Overlap - Correct Answers ✅when more than one medical record number exists for the same patient within an enterprise at different facilities/databases 1 / 3

HIM 101 final exam Questions with Complete Solutions What is entailed in a MPI Maintenance program? - Correct Answers ✅- ongoing process to identify & address existing errors

• advanced person search capabilities for minimizing the

creation of new errors

• mechanism for efficiently detecting, reviewing, and

resolving potential errors

• ability to reliably link different medical record numbers and

other identifiers for the same person to create an enterprise view of the person

• consideration of the types of physical merges & the

interfaces & correction routines to other electronic systems that are populated or updated by the EMPI Health Information Exchange (HIE) - Correct Answers ✅used to describe both the sharing of health information electronically among two or more entities and also an organization that provides services to accomplish this information exchange What is the purpose of HIE? - Correct Answers ✅increase the availability of health information to authorized stakeholders in order to improve quality & safety of healthcare delivery across the continuum 2 / 3

HIM 101 final exam Questions with Complete Solutions Serial Numbering System - Correct Answers ✅patient receives a unique numerical identifier for each encounter or admission to a healthcare facility Unit Numbering System - Correct Answers ✅- commonly used

• a patient receives a unique health record number at the

time of the first encounter

• an advantage is that all information, regardless of the

number of encounters, can be filed or linked together Serial-unit Numbering System - Correct Answers ✅- attempt to combine the strengths & minimize the weakness of the serial & unit numbering systems

• previous health records are brought forward & filed under

the last assigned health record number & it created a unit record Alphabetic Identification & Filing System - Correct Answers ✅patient's last name is used as the first source of identification & his/her first name and middle initial provider further identification Health Record Number - Correct Answers ✅- special file folder that is filed either alphabetically or numerically, depending on the size of the organization

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