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1. Which one of the following best illustrates the attributes of a professional medical transcriptionist? A. Excellent typing skills B. Ability to understand the thinking process of the healthcare provider C. Ability to solve jigsaw and crossword puzzles D. Excellent visual acuity 2. Which of the following skills is easy to learn yet of lesser importance for healthcare documentation specialists of the future? A. Operating a footpedal and computer keyboard B. Ensuring correct grammar, punctuation, medical style, and spelling C. Translation of difficult to understand spoken words into meaningful text D. Organizing, formatting, and paragraphing text 3. Medical transcriptionists are demonstrating an understanding of the unique characteristics of their profession when they say: A. “T forms will replace me.” B. “My job consists of typing for doctors.” C. “Doctors can just listen to other doctors’ dictation to understand patient histories, with no need for a transcribed record.”  D. “Transcriptionists’ outstanding medical language interpretation skills are imperative if a quality medical report is to be produced.” 4. Which of the following abbreviations is correctly translated? A. HIPPA stands for Health Information Privacy and Portability Act B. ARRA stands for American Reinvestment in Reimbursement Activities. C. HPI stands for health protected information. D. P&Ps stands for policies and procedures. 5. Which of the following abbreviations is correctly translated and described? A. HHS is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and its chief involvement in healthcare privacy is as a payer for Medicare patients’ care. B. ADT stands for abstract data type, and it refers to object-oriented patient information in database form.  C. CE stands for covered entity, and it refers to health plans, healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses, and healthcare institutions such as hospitals and clinics. D. OCR stands for optical character recognition and refers to a type of health information input that occurs when paper records are scanned. 6. Which of these questions correctly translates the HIPAA-related abbreviation BA? A. Bachelor of Arts, and it is a required degree for people who work as health information managers. B. Benign Alternative, a choice of medical insurers in the Affordable Care Act. C. Biometrically Absolute, a use of biometric data to identify patients. D. Business Associate, a person who is not an employee of a covered entity but who works with individually identifiable health information. 7. Which of the following abbreviations does NOT pertain to reimbursement and diagnosis and procedure coding? A. STEMI B. CPT C. ICD-10 D. DRG 8. Which of the following best defines back-end speech recognition technology (BE-SRT)? A. Healthcare documentation specialist’s medical language skills are used to proofread and correct a medical record draft created by a recognition engine. B. Real-time editing of a computer-created draft by the healthcare provider as he or she dictates. C. Quality assurance expert reviews completed records, fills in blanks, and provides feedback to healthcare documentation specialists on their accuracy. D. Structured text created from predesigned templates that are completed by providers by checking boxes on a form. 9. Healthcare documentation specialists (HDSs) and medical transcriptionists (MTs) are responsible for which of the following? A. Accurate transcription of dictated office chart notes, history and physical reports, and letters. B. Developing the knowledge and skills that allow them to be part of the thought process of healthcare providers as they compose reports C. Continually expanding their knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, human diseases, lab tests and their values, and surgical procedures. D. All of the above. E. None of the above. 10. A medical record number is best described as a: A. Universal identifier used to denote a group of insured individuals B. Permanent numeric patient identifier assigned by a healthcare facility that identifies a single patient at the time of every visit. C. Number assigned to a patient by a healthcare facility for each visit, changing every time. D. Biological characteristic used to identify an individual patient’s record, such as a fingerprint, handprint, or retina scan.