Question 1

For concerns about alert fatigue and workflow integration when implementing a CDSS, the strategies that align with health informatics best practices are

Accepted Answer

✅ Engage clinical informaticists early to customize CDSS rules and workflows
(Ensures alerts are clinically relevant, reduces noise, and aligns with provider workflow.)

Question 2

Which of the following actions would best help a healthcare administrator use informatics to prepare for MACRA's value-based payment requirements? (Select all that apply)

Accepted Answer

✅ Implement a dashboard for tracking quality and cost metrics
✅ Establish a care coordination program with analytic support
✅ Use EHR data to identify high-risk patient groups

Question 3

Match each informatics policy to its intended impact.
Informatics Impact: HIPAA →

Accepted Answer

✅ Intended impact: Protect EPHI through privacy and security standards

Question 4

Match each informatics policy to its intended impact.
Informatics Impact: HITECH Act →

Accepted Answer

✅ Intended impact: Incentivize EHR adoption and meaningful use

Question 5

Match each informatics policy to its intended impact.
Informatics Impact: MACRA →

Accepted Answer

✅ Intended impact:  Tie reimbursement to quality-based metrics

Question 6

Match each informatics policy to its intended impact.
Informatics Impact: 21st Century Cures Act →

Accepted Answer

✅ Intended impact:  Promote open APIs and prevent information blocking

Question 7

Chronological order of informatics milestones:
Emergence of early EMRs

Accepted Answer

1️⃣ In the 1970s

Question 8

Chronological order of informatics milestones:
Publication of To Err Is Human

Accepted Answer

2️⃣1999, Institute of Medicine report

Question 9

Chronological order of informatics milestones:
Passage of HITECH Act

Accepted Answer

3️⃣2009, part of ARRA

Question 10

Chronological order of informatics milestones:
Introduction of FHIR

Accepted Answer

4️⃣2014, HL7 standard

Question 11

You are evaluating a vendor's EHR system for your health system. The system lacks robust interoperability features, which concerns your team. Which of the following best explains why this is a critical issue? (Select all that apply)

Accepted Answer

✅ Lack of interoperability prevents seamless data exchange across care settings, undermining coordination and reporting

Question 12

The primary reason the federal government enacted the HITECH Act

Accepted Answer

✅Promote adoption and meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) through financial incentives and to strengthen HIPAA enforcement.

Question 13

Which of the following are benefits of integrating analytics tools within an EHR system for the hospital administrators? (Select all that apply)

Accepted Answer

✅ Real-time Performance Monitoring
✅ Support for Value-Based Care Metrics
✅ Identification of Population Health Trends

Question 14

Health IT tool based on its primary function:
Clinical Decision Support System

Accepted Answer

✅ Primary function:  Supports clinical decisions

Question 15

Health IT tool based on its primary function: 
Predictive Analytics Dashboard

Accepted Answer

✅ Primary function: Supports strategic planning

Question 16

Health IT tool based on its primary function: 
Practice Management System

Accepted Answer

✅Primary function: Supports administrative tasks

Question 17

Health IT tool based on its primary function: 
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

Accepted Answer

✅ Primary function: Enables data exchange

Question 18

Challenge → informatics solution:
Clinician overwhelmed with alerts

Accepted Answer

✅ Informatics solution: Customizable CDSS

Question 19

Challenge → informatics solution:
Data silos across departments

Accepted Answer

✅ Informatics solution: Interoperability via FHIR

Question 20

Challenge → informatics solution:
Lack of patient engagement

Accepted Answer

✅ Informatics solution: Secure patient portals

Question 21

Challenge → informatics solution:
Delayed performance insights

Accepted Answer

✅ Informatics solution: Real-time analytics dashboard

Question 22

Your health system wants to comply with the 21st Century Cures Act information sharing requirements while improving patient access. Which administrative actions most directly address compliance and patient empowerment? (Select all that apply.)

Accepted Answer

✅ Enable FHIR-based patient-facing APIs in the Certified EHR to expose USCDI data to third-party apps
✅ Update the organization's information sharing policy and train staff to avoid unnecessary denials of access

Module 1

HSA 6197 Practice Questions

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