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Networking and Health Information Exchange: National and International Standards

Developing Organizations

Self-assessment

1. Standards are a necessary and useful part of life because:

a. Enable people to work together


b. Avoid chaos
c. Enable components to work together
d. All of the above

2. Which of these objects probably would not profit from a standard?

a. Baseball
b. Sock sizes
c. Light bulb
d. a piece of art

3. Interoperability permits us to _________.

a. Aggregate data across different sites of care


b. Reuse data for purposes other than why is was primarily collected
c. Share data with other places of care
d. All of the above

4. The US Interstate Highway System is an example of interoperability.

a. True
b. False

5. Which of the following is not required to enable endto-end interoperability for health
care?

a. We must use the same data elements.


b. We must have a standard way to exchange the data.
c. We can only exchange with one other site.
d. Standards are required.

6. All of the standards we need for health care already exist. We just need to use them.

a. True
b. False

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Version 3.0 / Spring 2012 National and International Standards Developing Organizations
Lectures a,b,and c

This material Comp9_Unit3 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.
7. People should have a choice about which standards they wish to use.

a. True
b. False

8. Microsoft Standards are created using what method?

a. Consensus
b. ad hoc
c. de facto
d. none of the above

9. Which of the following is not an International SDO?

a. ISO TC 215
b. HL7
c. IEEE
d. NCPD

10. Which organization is a collaborative organization for international SDOs?

a. SCO
b. ANSI
c. JIC
d. CDISC

11. The World Health Organization is not engaged in creating standards.

a. True
b. False

12. Which activity is not included in a workgroup of TC 215?

a. EHR
b. Messaging standards
c. Internet standards
d. Terminology standards

13. Which of the following Groups cannot submit standards to ISO TC 215 to become
ISO standards?

a. HL7
b. CEN
c. ASTM
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Lectures a,b,and c

This material Comp9_Unit3 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.
d. IEEE

14. CEN Standard 13606 defines standards for the following:

a. Archetypes
b. EHR Architecture
c. Reference Information Model
d. All of the above

15. Which is not an HL7 Steering Division?

a. Structure and Semantic Design


b. Clinical Decision Support
c. Domain Experts
d. Foundation and Technology

16. HL7 creates standards for which of the following:

a. EHR Functional Model


b. Diets
c. Exercise protocols
d. Reimbursement

17. Which HL7 Standard is not mentioned in the HHS Final Rule?

a. CDA
b. v2.5.1 Messaging Standard
c. CCD
d. v3.0 Messaging standard

18. What SDO is likely to have created a standard for an Echo cardiogram?

a. ASC X12N
b. ASTM
c. DICOM
d. CDISC

19. Which SDO is likely to have created a standard for a medication refill?

a. DICOM
b. NCPDP
c. ASTM
d. All of the above

Health IT Workforce Curriculum Networking and Health Information Exchange 3


Version 3.0 / Spring 2012 National and International Standards Developing Organizations
Lectures a,b,and c

This material Comp9_Unit3 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.
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Version 3.0 / Spring 2012 National and International Standards Developing Organizations
Lectures a,b,and c

This material Comp9_Unit3 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.

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