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LET521S - LEGISLATION AND ETHICS IN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - 1ST OPP - NOV 2022 |
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nAmlBIA unlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF HEALTH,APPLIEDSCIENCESA, ND NATURALRESOURCES
DEPARTMENTOF HEALTHSCIENCES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOROF SCIENCEIN HEALTHINFORMATION SYSTEMMANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BHIS
COURSENAME: LEGISLATIONAND ETHICS
IN HEALTHINFORMATION MANAGEMENT
DATE: NOVEMBER 2022
LEVEL: 5
COURSECODE: LET521S
PAPER: THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS: 100
FIRSTOPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER
MODERATOR
MS ELIZABETHNDAKUKAMO
DR ROSWITHA MAHALIE
THIS QUESTION PAPERCONSISTSOF 3 PAGES
(INCLUDING THIS FRONT PAGE)
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Read the questions and instructions carefully
2. Answer All the questions
3. Write neatly and clearly
4. Begin each question on a separate sheet of paper and number the answers clearly
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SECTION A {50 MARKS)
QUESTION 1
(20)
1.1. Indicate which of the following statements is TRUE or FALSE.A mark for each answer.
1.1.1 Spyware is used for the purpose of secretly gathering data on an unsuspecting user.
1.1.2 Application standards indicate the type of information included in a document and
also the location of the information.
1.1.3 Solitude is not an individual's right.
1.1.4 Personal health information is subject to a legal privilege.
1.1.5 Trip ware is also known as checksums.
1.1.6 Respecting the inherent dignity and worth of every person is an ethical principle of
AHIMA.
1.1.7 The Supreme Court is headed by a Judge President.
1.1.8 Vicarious liability is the responsibility and accountability of individuals for their
own actions or inactions.
1.1.9 Withholding treatment refers to the decision of the patient, her family, or her
legal guardian to refrain from giving permission for care.
1.1.10 Civil registration·is an example of a population-based approach of data sources.
1.1.11 Mobile health allows medical sensors to send patient data to healthcare professionals.
1.1.12 The term "http://indicates the secure section of the website.
1.1.13 The constitution is not the supreme law of Namibia.
1.1.14 The deluded belief you suffer from all the diseases featured on the
internet cyberstalking.
1.1.15 Hashing is a method of maintaining data integrity.
1.1.16 Health defines the prevention, treatment, and management of illness.
1.1.17 Medical transcription ensures that all health records are properly diagnosed
according to the ordered procedure.
1.1.18 Service records are institution-based approaches of data sources.
1.1. 19 Cyber-trespassing involves accessing computer infrastructures that do not belong
to the individual.
1.1.20 Virtue framework identifies character traits to motivate individuals in each
situation they find themselves.
QUESTION 2
(30)
2.1 Define the following terms as used in Health Information Systems Management:
2.1 Autonomy
(4)
2.2 Liability
(5)
2.3 Interoperability
(4)
2.4 informed consent
(4)
2.5 Health policy
(3)
2.6 Law is rooted in tradition, culture, customs and beliefs. Name and describe the
(10)
different sources of law in Namibia.
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SECTION B (30 MARKS)
QUESTION 3
(30)
3.1 Enumerate safeguard standards of the Health Insurance Portability &
(10)
Accountability Administrative act.
3.2 Summarise the tools required to maintain health information security and privacy. (10)
3.3 Clarify the measures to protect and secure COVID-19 data to a group of first-level (10)
data entry clerks who were given tablets as a data collection tool.
SECTION C (20 MARKS)
QUESTION 4
(20)
4. Euthanasia usually happens when there is visible deterioration in the quality of life of a
patient and no end to unbearable pain. Differentiate between the following terms of
euthanasia:
4.1 Active Euthanasia
(2)
4.2 Passive Euthanasia
(2)
4.3 Living will
(2)
4.4. "Robot arm breaks an 8-year-old boy's wrist at a chess tournament in Rundu", Imagine
you are the leader of a task force assigned to correct the problems uncovered by this accident,
briefly describe how you will go about solving this dilemma.
(8)
4.5 Enumerate the components of the Namibian healthcare system.
(6)
TOT AL: 100 MARKS
All THE BEST!
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