NHA - Certified Electronic Health Record Specialist (CEHRS) Study Guide AVTEC Latest Update 2024-2025 150 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ At First Attempt Accounts Receivable - CORRECT ANSWER: Patient bills for services that have already been provided that legally are due to a facility.
Ad Hoc Reports - CORRECT ANSWER: Reports created or programmed in response to
an inquiry or issue that comes up; they are not normally scheduled reports.
Addendum - CORRECT ANSWER: Additional documentation added to a health record
that represents new data not included in the original documentation.
Advance Directives - CORRECT ANSWER: Documents that give patients the right to
make decisions about their care and designate others to make decisions if they are incapacitated.
Affordable Care Act - CORRECT ANSWER: Mandates comprehensive health insurance
reform.
Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER: An addition to patient record documentation meant
to clarify or further explain existing record information.
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - CORRECT
ANSWER: The national organization for medical records professionals.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - CORRECT ANSWER:
Consists of three major goals: create and save jobs, spur economic activity and invest in long-term growth, and support accountability and transparency in recovery spending.
Audit Trails - CORRECT ANSWER: A computer software program that tracks users by
login and documents where in an information system users go and which applications they access.
Authorization - CORRECT ANSWER: Required for any release of patient PHI; consists of specific elements that make it legal and appropriate to release information.
Autopsy Rates - CORRECT ANSWER: The percent of autopsies performed on patients
who die in the hospital; reasons for not performing an autopsy in the hospital may include legal inquiry or family preference.
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Average Length of Stay (ALOS) - CORRECT ANSWER: The total number of patient
days in a period divided by the number of patients; for example, the ALOS for cardiology services in February was 6.1 days.
Battery - CORRECT ANSWER: A legal term; harmful or offensive touching of another.
Benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER: Comparing best practices
Benchmarks - CORRECT ANSWER: Goals or metrics a facility wants to meet; for
example, if the industry standard is 90% of patients should have advance directives entered into their patient record within 24 hour of admission, and a hospital was only meeting this for 45% of the patients, they would use the external benchmark of 90% as a goal and track performance toward that goal by month or quarter.
Business associate - CORRECT ANSWER: An organization or individual who provides
specific services to a covered entity involving the use or disclosure of PHI; for example, an off-site storage company that houses EMR data.
CCHIT - CORRECT ANSWER: Approves and certifies EHR technology and is the
required standard for facilities and providers wanting to participate in the Meaningful Use incentive program.
Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) - CORRECT ANSWER: A
division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - CORRECT ANSWER: Federal
agency charged with administration of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the Children's Health Insurance Program; operating division of the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS).
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) - CORRECT
ANSWER: Established to evaluate and approve EHR and EMR systems; to participate
in incentive programs for EHR adoption and use, facilities must use a certified EHR or EMR product.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) - CORRECT ANSWER: Leader of a facility who reports to the Board of Directors.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - CORRECT ANSWER: Leader who oversees all financial and fiscal decisions and issues for a facility; generally reports to the CEO.
Commercial Insurers - CORRECT ANSWER: Private, non-government insurers; these
are often the insurance options available through employers.
Comorbidity - CORRECT ANSWER: Disease that exists at the same time as a primary
disease that a patient is being treated for at the time; for example, a patient who has
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