Blog

Darius is facilitating a group that is having trouble generating ideas on how to improve the patient registration process.  He asks them to describe the worst way the process could be redesigned to see if any new ideas can be generated.  Darius is using what group facilitation technique?

Marcos has completed a user survey and developed use cases for the HIM department.  What is the next step he should take to verify functional needs requirements?

The speech recognition system has been in operation for almost 2 months, and despite receiving one-on-one training prior to go-live, Dr. Jones is still not using the system correctly.  Dr. Jones needs what type of training?

Isaiah is creating a system flowchart to demonstrate the flow of a patient chart through the HIM department.  One of the first issues he addresses is deciding whether the chart is inpatient or outpatient.  Isaiah will use which symbol to depict this part of the process?

Carolyn wants to illustrate the process of what happens when a physician orders outpatient blood work at the hospital where she is consulting.  She understands she will need to show what is happening in the patient home, the laboratory, and patient registration all at the same time.  Carolyn should choose which process mapping tool to best depict this simultaneous process?

University Hospital will be implementing a new Operating Room scheduling system.  On the day of the go-live with the new system, the old paper version used for scheduling will be discontinued, and all staff must use the new system.  This is an example of what type of turnover strategy?

At Mercy Hospital, the Board of Trustees has reviewed the feasibility studies for the EHR implementation and has given approval to the chief executive officer to move to the next step in the process.  Mercy Hospital has just completed which phase of the project life cycle?

Dr. Rainey is gathering data for her Type I diabetes study.  She requests records only from the past two years, as she feels treatment protocols older than that are not relevant.  This is an example of which big data characteristic?

Because of homoeoteleuton, sometimes __________________ occurred when scribes were copying texts.

Which of the Church Fathers said that Matthew wrote “logia” in Aramaic or Hebrew?