Health Informatics Ethics practice questions

Question: The HITECH Act was enacted in 2009 to help stimulate both health care and financial recovery in the United States.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: In ethics theory, autonomy means:

Answer Options:
A. Personal responsibility
B. Acting alone
C. Freedom from controlling interferences
D. All of these are correct

Answer: C. Freedom from controlling interferences

Question: Developing a national HIT infrastructure is an enormous and extremely complex undertaking that requires:

Answer Options:
A. Financial assets
B. Technological assets
C. Human resources
D. All of these are correct

Answer: D. All of these are correct

Question: A healthcare worker has violated a patient’s confidential and private information. What governmental agency will be called to investigate?

Answer Options:
A. President of the organization
B. Compliance officer
C. Office of Civil Rights
D. Medicaid and Medicare

Answer: C. Office of Civil Rights

Question: Which principle of ethics has a nursing educator violated in failing to correctly teach his/her students how to calculate medication dosages?

Answer Options:
A. Nonmaleficence
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Confidentiality

Answer: A. Nonmaleficence

Question: What helps to ethically delineate healthcare practice from healthcare information obtained from the Internet?

Answer Options:
A. Knowledge of violated privacy law
B. Direct provider-patient communication
C. Specific type of diseases reviewed
D. Indirect provider communication

Answer: B. Direct provider-patient communication

Question: Ethics is best described as:

Answer Options:
A. Paradigmatic changes that involve rhythmic processes central to the healthcare system
B. Ever-changing principles that guide decision making
C. A revolution in health care brought on by technologic change
D. A goal-oriented approach to answering questions that potentially have multiple acceptable answers

Answer: D. A goal-oriented approach to answering questions that potentially have multiple acceptable answers

Question: HIPAA has improved the privacy and security of patient health information by applying the requirements of the HITECH Act to the business associates of covered entities and by enhancing the breach notification requirements of the HITECH Act.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: _____________ asserts an obligation not to inflict harm intentionally and forms a framework for the standard of care.

Answer Options:
A. Autonomy
B. Justice
C. Beneficence
D. Nonmaleficence

Answer: D. Nonmaleficence

Question: Which social conventions about right and wrong human conduct are so widely shared that they form a stable general agreement?

Answer Options:
A. Ethics
B. Values
C. Confidentiality
D. Morals

Answer: D. Morals

Question: The main goal of any ethical decision is to:

Answer Options:
A. Generate knowledge
B. Promote professionalism
C. Promote trust
D. Reach a rational justifiable decision

Answer: D. Reach a rational justifiable decision

Question: A core difficulty with social media networks is that networks overlap so that the unintended audience is almost always greater than the intended one.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: In ethics theory, nonmaleficence means:

Answer Options:
A. The obligation not to inflict harm intentionally
B. Poor productivity or inefficiency
C. Embracing cultural diversity
D. None of these are correct

Answer: A. The obligation not to inflict harm intentionally

Question: Which theoretical framework emerged as a foundation for ethical decision making?

Answer Options:
A. Hippocratic oath
B. Antiprinciplism
C. Principlism
D. Care ethics

Answer: C. Principlism

Question: A process of various ways of understanding and examining the moral life is called:

Answer Options:
A. Ethics
B. Mission
C. Values
D. Autonomy

Answer: A. Ethics

Question: Linking health plans, providers, and the government to allow for the meaningful use of healthcare information is called:

Answer Options:
A. Qualified technology
B. Enterprise integration
C. Certified technology
D. Medical integration

Answer: C. Certified technology

Question: The fundamental nature of bioethics relates to:

Answer Options:
A. Causes of diseases
B. Cultural sensitivity
C. Medical terminology
D. Needs of humans

Answer: D. Needs of humans

Question: The presence of a moral dilemma creates:

Answer Options:
A. A peaceful temperament
B. A specific action
C. Uncertainty
D. An anticipated behavior

Answer: C. Uncertainty

Question: Fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment in light of what is due or owed to a person is known as:

Answer Options:
A. Autonomy
B. Beneficence
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence

Answer: C. Justice