AHIMA RHIT Practice Exam-4 2025/2026

Transaction-processing - Answer-This is the type of information system that would best
be used by the Health Information Management (HIM) Director to identify admissions,
discharges, and transfers.
*Unified Modeling Language* - Answer-This is the *object-oriented modeling language*
that assists in the documentation of a software project.
*What is the question?* - Answer-This question would be the* first in the ethical
decision-making matrix*
*Tracer Methodology* - Answer-The Joint Commission's methodology for *following a
patient through organizational systems and processes *as the patient experiences care.
*Bar coding* - Answer-This is located on a form that facilitates scanning a document to
a part of the medical record.
*Median* - Answer-You receive length of stay (LOS) data from several care units. Each
is the form of a normal distribution, but each data set has outliers and the ranges of
each data set are not the same. If you need to compare these distributions, what is the
best measure of central tendency.
Clinical Trial - Answer-The hospital is experiences an increase in Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) complaints. A team of nurses and health
information technicians investigates and at their recommendation, the hospital
commences *a trial of a new process to audit requests for access to medical records.*
After six months, the team reconvenes to assess the results of the new process. The
above is an example of:
Run chart - Answer-The graph used to *display data points over a period of time *to
provide information on system performance.
Statistical Process Control Chart - Answer-The chart that includes *horizontal lines to
represent control limits.*
Dashboard - Answer-A senior manager at your hospital requests a visual tool to
*summarize the status of all quality improvement project organization wide.* She
requires that this tool provides metrics for infection rates, patient satisfaction, cost
control, and risk management. The best tool for this purposes is:
*Null and Alternative* - Answer-The two forms of hypothesis testing.