Registered Health Information Administrator: RHIA

Ultimate responsibility for the quality and completion of entries in patient health records belongs to the

A. chief of staff.

B. attending physician.

C. HIM director.

D. risk manager.

When evaluating a microfilm service bureau, all but which of the following are important factors to rate?

A. cost

B. emergency returns

C. storage after filming

D. cache memory

Cynthia wants to retrieve a list of patients from the new electronic document manage system. She wants a list of patients admitted to the hospital by Dr. Smith. Which of the folio would explain why she cannot generate this list?

A. improper scanning

B. the necessary indexing to retrieve this list was not done

C. the data is stored on optical disk so it not readily available

D. the COLD technology has not downloaded the lab reports