WGU C810 Foundations in Healthcare Data Management

WGU C810 Foundations in Healthcare Data Management
A chief information officer at a hospital is working to improve data security methodologies within
the hospital's electronic health record (EHR). The chief information officer enlists the help of the
hospital's health information management (HIM) director to help design and enforce the new
data security policies, which include the utilization of a new token system to access the
EHR.Which information governance principle is described in this scenario? - ANS-Protection
A coder encounters a medical record where a sputum culture indicates bacterial pneumonia, but
the diagnosis does not specify the cause.
Which criteria does the documentation in the patient's record fail to meet? - ANS-Precision
A health information exchange method is needed that allows healthcare providers to access
health information from other providers to deliver patient care.
Which health information exchange method best suits this purpose? - ANS-Query-based
exchange
A health information management (HIM) director is writing a data dictionary for a new disease
registry.For which area is this HIM director being a data steward? - ANS-Data definition
A health information manager is responsible for properly destroying records after the retention
period has passed. Which principle for information governance is described in this scenario? -
ANS-Disposition
A healthcare facility experiences an unexpected hardware failure with its EHR system, and it is
expected to be operational in three hours.
During this downtime, which plan should be initiated? - ANS-Business continuity plan
A healthcare facility uses a template to collect data for key reports, prompting caregivers to
document all required data elements in the patient record.
Which data characteristic does this practice contribute to? - ANS-Comprehensiveness
A healthcare professional is examining statistics for a facility that includes the average length of
stay (ALOS) and discharge data by diagnostic-related group (DRG).
Which type of data is being reviewed? - ANS-Aggregate data