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The ONC has also created the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, which outlines the strategy and direction to be taken to improve the exchange of health information between systems through the nation. A high-level goal of the ONC Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap is: 

The ONC established the set of guiding principles as part of a 10-year vision that creates the interoperable health IT infrastructure. One of these guiding principles is: 

ICD-10-CM has specific instructions for outpatient coding. If the clinical documentation indicates a rule-out condition, the coder should: 

Which portion of the clinical record is used for the purpose of clarifying the access and amendment standards in the HIPAA privacy rule?   

Standards for healthcare records are established from four primary sources. Which of these four sources is established by independent organizations, such as The Joint Commission, that develop standards for quality of care in the healthcare industry? 

One of the challenges to the use of so many different systems is interoperability issues. Interoperability refers to the _____________ of information as well as to the interpretation of the data by the systems.  

Coding in the physician practice includes ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, E/M codes (included in the CPT manual), CPT, HCPCS, and __________. 

What industry standard form is used for electronic billing to payers in the physician practice setting? 

What type of interoperability provides interoperability at the highest level, which is the ability of two or more systems or elements to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged? 

The Office of Inspector General was charged with oversight of the Medicare, Medicaid, and other HHS programs specifically to __________.