Florida National University Health Information System Multiple Choice Questions

True or False? The person in a pharmacy who deals most directly with insurers is the pharmacy benefit manager.

1. True
2. False

When, during the medication use process, is CDS the greatest life-saver?

1. Prescription review
2. Just after dispensing
3. Mid-administration
4. During monitoring of blood pressure

Which of the following is a non-critical part of a CDS?

1. Inference engine
2. Model management subsystem
3. Knowledge base
4. Legal dataset

Third-generation EHR is approximately how old?

1. 10–15 years old
2. 15–20 years old
3. 20–30 years old
4. 30–35 years old

True or False? If you want to open a pharmacy that will use eRx, you will need to be EPCS-certified.

1. True
2. False

What do carousels do to the picking of medications?

1. Automate it
2. Slow it
3. Remove nurses from it
4. Give physicians control of it

True or False? A pharmacy technician should use photographs to document the steps taken in dispensing an IV drug.

1. True
2. False

True or False? PP lets patients play a more active role in their therapies if they choose to do so.

1. True
2. False

1. State regulation
2. Community objections
3. Budget
4. Accreditation issues

Which screening is most important when a pharmacist is dispensing antibiotics for a patient with a food allergy?

1. Drug–drug
2. Drug–food
3. Drug–laboratory
4. Drug–disease

What percentage of preventable errors remain in a system fully using fourth-generation EHR?

1. 5%
2. 10%
3. 15%
4. 20%

True or False? The step in the medication use process that least involves the pharmacist is the monitoring step.

1. True
2. False

Most errors in the medication use process occur:

1. during dispensing.
2. before administration.
3. sometime while monitoring.
4. after prescription.

EHR are supposed to look at a patient’s history in what way with regard to time?

1. All possible time points
2. A snapshot of the past month
3. Last appointment
4. Times selected by the patient

True or False? In CDS, translation and interpretation of results are performed by the intelligent graphical interface.

1. True
2. False

When did the use of HMIS noticeably begin in pharmacy?

1. 1920s
2. 1940s
3. 1970s
4. 1990s

Which of the following would be the least likely reason for resistance to the use of eRx?

1. Physician preference
2. Technical interoperability
3. State regulation
4. Workflow issues

True or False? Many pharmacists already practice informatics in their daily work.

1. True
2. False

What must a repackager provide for a medicine?

1. RFID
2. Barcode
3. Hand labelling
4. Tracking sheet

True or False? Software can help in the preparation of TPN admixtures.

1. True
2. False

In a CDS, what does the inference engine do?

1. Guess at needed medicines
2. Change physician’s decisions automatically
3. Integrate other parts
4. Allow nurses to overrule physicians

True or False? CDS can help to point out easily missed medication conflicts.

1. True
2. False

True or False? Medical errors, including those leading to patient deaths, have dropped as EHR have been implemented.

1. True
2. False

Which of the following most accelerated the use of HIT in pharmacy?

1. ACA
2. State regulations
3. HITECH Act
4. DEA regulations

In theory, the use of EHR should reduce the incidence of:

1. data duplication.
2. privacy violations.
3. data entry errors.
4. lawsuits.

At which point in the medication use process is a nurse most likely to make an error?

1. Prescription
2. Administration
3. Dispensing
4. Monitoring