Introduction to Healthcare and Public Health in the US: Regulating Health Care
Self Assessment Key
Choose the most correct answer.
1. The Joint Commission (formerly known as JCAHO) accredits:
a. Entire health care organizations
b. Outpatient health care providers
c. Just nurses
d. Just physicians
2. What organization developed the National Patient Safety Goals, the Sentinel Event Policy, and the Speak Up Initiative?
a. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
b. The Health Resources and Services Administration
c. The Joint Commission
d. The Office of the Inspector General
3. Which of the following is one of the main roles of the FDA?
a. Regulate drug safety
b. Prevent wrong-site surgery
c. Encourage patients to participate actively in their health care
d. Develop performance measures for hospitals
4. Negligence is one of the two main types of:
a. Felonies
b. Litigation
c. Torts
d. Violations of administrative law
5. Administrative Hearings would be held for:
a. Social Security Appeals
b. Civil litigation
c. Criminal Cases
d. Malpractice Claims
6. In order to prove medical malpractice, an injured person must prove all of the following EXCEPT:
a. The health provider had a duty of reasonable care.
b. The health provider did not meet the minimum standard of care or failed to obtain informed consent.
c. The health provider’s failure to meet the standard of care was the primary cause of the injury.
d. The injury resulted in physical harm.
7. The Affordable Care Act is slated to:
a. Provide better access to insurance
b. Improve public health
c. Increase Medicaid and Medicare payments
d. All of the above
8. Lack of informed consent can lead to accusation of:
a. Battery
b. Negligence
c. Malpractice
d. All of the above
9. Fraud is:
a. The intentional misrepresentation or concealment of relevant facts
b. Unnecessary costs as a result of poor management, practices, or controls
c. Excessively or improperly using government resources
d. Pre-determined non-economic damage
10. Which of the following is not true of HIPAA?
a. New employer plan may limit coverage due to pre-existing condition
b. Improves access to long term care
c. If health insurance is lost, improves access to group health plan
d. Protects use of health savings accounts
11. The HIPAA Security Rule:
a. Ensures compliance by the workforce
b. Requires covered entities to use security measures to protect health information
c. Anticipates threats to security and integrity of information, and protects against them
d. All of the above
12. The following government agency enforces HIPAA:
a. FDA
b. AHRQ
c. JC
d. OCR
13. A government agency that is an important source on research about patient safety and privacy is:
a. AHRQ
b. JC
c. OCR
d. FDA
14. A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program strives to:
a. Improve the quality of documentation in the health record
b. Reduce fraud and abuse
c. Improve the coding and reimbursement process
d. All of the above
15. The health record is:
a. A communication tool among care providers
b. A tool to improve quality and safety for patients
c. The legal business record of a health care organization
d. all of the above
Health IT Workforce Curriculum Introduction to Healthcare and 1
Version 3.0/Spring 2012 Public Health in the US
Regulating Healthcare
This material (Comp1_Unit6) was developed by Oregon Health and Science University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000015.