CCS Information Technologies Practice Questions
Information Technologies makes up 5 of every 50 questions on a Tigertest CCS practice test. Here are 10 of the 20 questions on it, each with the answer and the reason.
Updated by the Tigertest team. Weighted to the AHIMA CCS Exam Content Outline. Original questions on coding guidelines and concepts; not affiliated with AHIMA.
1. A record kept partly on paper and partly in electronic systems is a:
- A.Data warehouse
- B.Hybrid record
- C.Personal health record
- D.Legal health record
Answer: B. Many organizations moving to EHRs keep hybrid records, with some documents on paper or scanned and others born electronic. Policy must define which parts are the legal record.
2. Unlike an EMR, an EHR is designed to:
- A.Replace all paper forms
- B.Be kept by the patient
- C.Stay inside one practice
- D.Share data across sites
Answer: D. ONC describes an EMR as a digital chart within one practice, and an EHR as a record built to share information with other providers and organizations.
3. A personal health record (PHR) is managed by:
- A.The patient
- B.The attending
- C.The hospital
- D.The payer
Answer: A. A PHR is controlled by the individual, who decides what goes in it and who can see it. It is not the provider's legal record.
4. An organization that moves clinical data between unrelated hospitals is a:
- A.Clinical data warehouse
- B.Practice management system
- C.Health information exchange
- D.Regional data use agreement
Answer: C. An HIE lets clinical information move electronically among organizations within a region or community, or nationally.
5. Buying each department's system from a different vendor is the:
- A.Monolithic approach
- B.Hybrid record approach
- C.Best-of-breed approach
- D.Enterprise approach
Answer: C. Best-of-breed picks the strongest system for each department and connects them with interfaces. An enterprise approach uses one vendor's integrated system.
6. In computer-assisted coding, recall measures the share of:
- A.Correct codes it found
- B.Records it processed
- C.Coders who use it
- D.Its codes that are right
Answer: A. Recall is how many of the codes that should have been assigned the CAC actually found. Precision is how many of its suggestions were correct.
7. With computer-assisted coding, the coder's main role becomes:
- A.Writing the provider notes
- B.Typing in every code by hand
- C.Scanning paper charts
- D.Validating suggested codes
Answer: D. CAC shifts coders from finding every code to reviewing, accepting, editing and rejecting suggestions, and to finding documentation gaps.
8. Autonomous coding differs from computer-assisted coding because it can:
- A.Code only CPT procedures
- B.Finalize codes unreviewed
- C.Suggest codes for review
- D.Read only scanned paper
Answer: B. Autonomous coding uses AI to finalize codes for some encounters without a coder's review, usually high-volume, simple ones, with audits and exceptions sent to coders.
9. Many encoders let the coder open which reference next to a code?
- A.The chargemaster prices
- B.Coding Clinic advice
- C.The payer contract
- D.The patient's PHR
Answer: B. Encoders commonly link codes to references such as AHA Coding Clinic, edits and guidelines, so the coder can check advice while coding.
10. The clinical terminology EHRs use for problem lists, mapped to ICD-10-CM, is:
- A.RxNorm
- B.ICD-10-PCS
- C.LOINC
- D.SNOMED CT
Answer: D. SNOMED CT is a detailed clinical terminology used in EHRs. Maps from SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM help turn clinical entries into classification codes.
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