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10 free, exam-style AMIA Health Informatics Certification (AHIC) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free AHIC practice test to study every exam domain.

Question 1

A health system wants third-party mobile apps to securely retrieve discrete, up-to-date patient data (problems, medications, labs) from its EHR using modern web APIs. Which standard is the MOST appropriate choice to enable this?

  1. HL7 FHIR
  2. HL7 Version 2 messaging
  3. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
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Correct answer: A - HL7 FHIR

Question 2

An informatician needs a system of concepts whose primary purpose is to capture clinical meaning at the point of care and support computable relationships between concepts - rather than to group finished cases into mutually exclusive categories for billing and statistical reporting. Which is the BEST fit?

  1. ICD-10-CM, a statistical classification built to assign each finished case to a single mutually exclusive billing category
  2. A reference terminology such as SNOMED CT, designed to encode granular clinical meaning
  3. CPT, a code set that standardizes reimbursable procedures
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Correct answer: B - A reference terminology such as SNOMED CT, designed to encode granular clinical meaning

Question 3

An anticoagulation dosing alert is evidence-based, well formatted, fires inside the EHR at the moment of ordering, and is clinically correct. Yet it consistently reaches the unit clerk rather than the prescribing clinician. According to the CDS 'Five Rights' framework, which 'right' is PRIMARILY unmet?

  1. Right time in the workflow
  2. Right person
  3. Right information, since the recommendation should have been suppressed until it could be routed correctly
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Correct answer: B - Right person

Question 4

A screening test for a serious condition has very high sensitivity but only moderate specificity. For an individual patient, a NEGATIVE result on this test is MOST clinically useful because it helps the clinician:

  1. Confirm the diagnosis, because a sensitive test has few false positives
  2. Estimate the population prevalence of the condition
  3. Rule the condition out, because a highly sensitive test produces few false negatives
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Correct answer: C - Rule the condition out, because a highly sensitive test produces few false negatives

Question 5

After applying a vendor patch to fix a single order-entry defect, an analyst confirms that previously working medication, allergy, and results-routing functions all still behave correctly. This verification activity is BEST described as:

  1. Regression testing
  2. Unit testing
  3. User acceptance testing, in which end users formally confirm the system meets documented business requirements before go-live
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Correct answer: A - Regression testing

Question 6

During an HIE go-live, two records for the same person are repeatedly treated as two different patients because of inconsistent name spellings and a transposed birth date. Which capability is designed PRIMARILY to prevent this problem?

  1. Role-based access control governing who may view each record
  2. A master patient index (MPI)
  3. An automated downtime procedure that replicates clinical data to a secondary data center for continued access
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Correct answer: B - A master patient index (MPI)

Question 7

A data governance team must release a dataset for external use and wants the simplest, rule-based pathway to render it no longer PHI under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. They remove the 18 specified identifiers and confirm they have no actual knowledge that the remaining data could identify an individual. This approach is:

  1. Expert determination, since a qualified statistician must apply accepted methods and certify the re-identification risk is very small
  2. A limited data set released under a data use agreement
  3. The Safe Harbor method, which deems data de-identified once the listed identifiers are removed
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Correct answer: C - The Safe Harbor method, which deems data de-identified once the listed identifiers are removed

Question 8

An analytics team builds a model that assigns each currently admitted patient a probability of being readmitted within 30 days, so the care team can intervene before discharge. This model is an example of which type of analytics?

  1. Predictive analytics, since it forecasts the likelihood of a future event for each patient
  2. Descriptive analytics
  3. Prescriptive analytics, since the model directs the single best intervention
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Correct answer: A - Predictive analytics, since it forecasts the likelihood of a future event for each patient

Question 9

Six months after a new documentation workflow is launched, an informatics leader focuses on auditing adherence, celebrating early wins, and updating policies and orientation so the workflow becomes 'the way we do things here.' In Lewin's change model, these activities BEST correspond to which stage?

  1. Unfreezing, the early work of preparing the organization to let go of its established old state
  2. Refreezing, embedding the change so it becomes the stable new norm
  3. Moving (changing), the active rollout of the new workflow
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Correct answer: B - Refreezing, embedding the change so it becomes the stable new norm

Question 10

When building the business case for a new enterprise imaging platform, an informatics leader must classify the recurring annual software license and support fees. These ongoing costs belong in which budget?

  1. The capital budget, since the platform is a long-lived enterprise asset acquired for multi-year use
  2. A separate depreciation schedule that spreads the one-time purchase across the asset's useful life
  3. The operating budget
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Correct answer: C - The operating budget

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