A HIM Professional in a Hospital Would Be Supporting Implementation

question 14

Multiple Choice

A HIM professional in a hospital would be supporting implementation of a syndromic surveillance system when he

• A) Presents the public health benefits to the Chairman of the Medical Record Committee in preparation for a scheduled monthly meeting.
• B) Works with the hospital's CIO to research and develop a secure methodology to identify and transmit de-identified hospital-specific coded health care data to the public health authority.
• C) Educates ER, outpatient, and hospital HIM coders about the critical nature of syndromic surveillance.
• D) All of the above.

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Definitions:

3rd Quartile

The 3rd quartile, also known as Q3, marks the value below which 75% of the data in a dataset falls, effectively dividing the higher quarter of data from the rest.

Range

The gap between the maximum and minimum figures within a set of data.

Salaries

Regular payments made to employees for their work or services, typically expressed on an annual basis.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.