CSBI Sample Questions - HFMA Certified Specialist Business Intelligence Latest Update 2024-2025 320 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
Define and illustrate the applicability of and need to engage and use small data -
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Define HIPAA - CORRECT ANSWER: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act; organizations that are a CE and, now, directly to business associates as well -privacy rule -accountability rule
Define HITECH - CORRECT ANSWER: Health Information Technology for Economic
and Clinical Health Act -both CE and individuals -business associate contractors Breach notification requirements: Accounting of PHI disclosures; allows for sanctions for non-compliance including fines of up to 1.75M and 10 years imprisonment
Define the phenomenon big data - CORRECT ANSWER: understanding and using
combinations of large data sets, both clinical and non-clinical, which are generated by healthcare industry organizations in the course of doing business
define the term business intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER: set of methodologies,
processes, architectures and technologies that encompass the three types of analytics.Broad category of applications and technologies for gathering and analyzing data, transforming it into accurate, current and relevant actionable information and deploying it to users to be available for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions
facility hierarchy - CORRECT ANSWER: -preventative care
-primary care -acute care -specialty care -sub-acute care -rehab care -chronic care -long term care -end of life care
identify areas that may provide significant opportunities for improved organizational
performance if analytics are applied - CORRECT ANSWER: -data rich
-information intensive 1 / 3
-asset intensive -labor intensive -dependent on speed and timing -dependent on consistency and control -dependent on distributed decision making -cross-functional and cross-business in scope -low average success rate
Identify foundational drivers for change taking place in the industry - CORRECT
ANSWER: -Transparency
-Understanding costs -Community based services -IHI Triple Aim
Identify fundamental purpose of engaging in analytics - CORRECT ANSWER:
understand what is happening and finding a path forward
identify how performance is viewed in change management - CORRECT ANSWER:
uses external benchmarks and predictive analytics to perform what if testing and optimization analysis, and delivering predictions of work volume and the organization- defined specific resources needed to provide services for this volume
identify key common mistakes made in business analytics - CORRECT ANSWER: -
sophistication compensating for a lack of data -difficulty isolating and explaining patterns shown by data -equating correlation with causation
identify the attributes related to database and report application usage and output in
healthcare provider organizations - CORRECT ANSWER: -BI/analytics work
traditionally performed is a decision support function involving the framing and formatting of reports and relatively basic descriptive analytics, if any at all -siloed execution -financially focused in nature -recurring, routine reporting and analysis -regardless of the approach, output is typically of a simplistic, descriptive and analytic nature providing quantities, comparisons, percentiles and maybe trend lines on graph -application report writers are insufficient to reveal the information needed for powerful decision making
identify the critical resource allocation issues that must be addressed outside of the clinical services delivered - CORRECT ANSWER: directly linking and recognizing the interplay between healthcare user condition, service location, cost and coverage are critical resource allocation issues that need to be addressed outside of the clinical services delivered
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identify the five key Power Decision attributes related to real-time decision making -
CORRECT ANSWER: -targeted results
-replicable -adaptable to differing circumstances -expeditious -low cost
identify the fundamental goal of business intelligence analytics - CORRECT ANSWER: goal is to obtain the information that addresses the questions or issues at hand. Needs to be clearly conveyed when it matters
identify the intended outcome of an experiment - CORRECT ANSWER: provides insight into true cause and effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated
identify the payoff related to involving directors, managers or other staff members in the
experiment design process - CORRECT ANSWER: -group will have a greater level of
analytic understanding -outcome will be defined in advance in terms the stakeholders understand -policies and practices will become transparent for better or for worse
identify the primary purpose of sampling - CORRECT ANSWER: A sample is a data set used to make inferences about the entire population
Identify the services performed at various points on the health continuum - CORRECT
ANSWER: -preventative
-curative treatment -chronic treatment -restorative -palliative
identify the significance of the six leadership styles - CORRECT ANSWER: -
authoritative -democratic -affiliative -coaching -coercive -pacesetting
identify the three levels of automation levels related to any analytic type - CORRECT ANSWER: -fully automated: decisions are within a process flow that triggers subsequent processes and decisions
-partially automated: indicates exceptions, overrides desired outcomes and is
specifically built in
-assisted prediction: reveals unpredictable or unprecedented variables and
mathematical models to indicate what should be done
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