RHIT STUDY GUIDE WHITE BOARD
NOTES LATEST UPDATED
Process of determining whether the medical service provided to a specific Medicare or
Medicaid patient is necessary. - ANS-Utilization Review.
official count of inpatients present at midnight, which is calculated each day Also
included are any patients who were admitted and discharged the same day - ANS-Daily
inpatient census
provide consistent descriptions of medical terms for an individual's condition in the
health record - ANS-Vocabulary standards
When records for evidence is involved at the trial, the records custodian is called a
witness by one party or other to testify as the authenticity of a record as evidence. The
records custodian verifies that it contains information about the individual. - ANS-
Custodian Records
a graphic tool that uses standard symbols to visually display detailed information,
including time and distance, of the sequential flow of work of an individual or a product
as it progresses through a process - ANS-flowchart
a performance improvement tool used to identify or classify the root causes of a
problem or condition and to display the root causes graphically; also called the cause
and effect diagram - ANS-fish bone chart
Data that has been extracted from individual health records and combined to form
deidentified information about groups of patients that can be compared. - ANS-
Aggregated Data
Mistakenly assigned another persons health record number. - ANS-Overlay
When a patient has more than one health record number at different locations within an
enterprise. - ANS-Overlap
2 or more medical record numbers. - ANS-Duplicate Record
To control/protect access of health information and records. - ANS-Security
Time between receipt of request and when the request is sent to the requester 30 days
on site, 60 days off site - ANS-ROI Turnaround Time
