Journal of AHIMA
Continuing Education Quiz
Quiz ID: Q112822 | HIM Domain Area: Technology | Article—“The Problem List beyond Meaningful Use”
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content of the article.
1. Meaningful use is based around a
set of standards designed to ensure
healthcare providers adopt EHRs that
can produce better health outcomes.
;a. true
;b. false
6. The use of ICD-9-CM billing codes as
the backbone to a problem list could
dilute the accuracy of problem lists.
;a. true
;b. false
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2. A coded platform is all that is needed
to create problem lists that support the
needs of modern medicine.
;a. true
;b. false
7. For a relatively healthy patient,
a typical problem list limited to
nontransitive illnesses typically
includes fewer than how many items?
;a. 1
;b. 3
;c. 5
;d. 7
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3. Problem lists offer what benefits to
patient care?
;a. help providers identify the most
important health factors for each
patient
;b. identify disease-specific
populations
;c. can serve as the basis for
determining standard quality
measures
;d. all of the above
8. Some organizations choose to include
what types of information in problem
lists for those patients with behavioral
health diagnoses?
;a. psychiatry notes
;b. prescription drugs
;c. group therapy session notes
;d. none of the above
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4. The scope of problem lists is largely
determined by:
;a. the structure of a healthcare
center’s EHR
;b. the judgment of a center’s
practitioners
;c. both a and b
;d. none of the above
5. Given the definition provided in the
meaningful use rule, what type of
problem list will most likely become
the most prominent version?
;a. conservative problem list
;b. broad problem list
;c. generic problem list
;d. disease-specific problem list
9. Failure to incorporate patient privacy
rules into the design of the problem
list may cause inadvertent privacy
breaches.
;a. true
;b. false
10. Examples of misuses of the problem
list include documenting patient
treatments or tests.
;a. true
;b. false
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