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NOCTI Health Informatics Practice Test

Unofficial practice for NOCTI Health Informatics: health science, HIPAA, code sets, records, charts, software, safety and workplace skills.

A medication list shows a drug ordered "BID." How often is it taken?

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General Health Science Technical Skills 8

  • A lab report gives a red blood cell count. What is the main job of red blood cells? Wikipedia, Red blood cell. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
  • A medication list shows a drug ordered "BID." How often is it taken? MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine), Appendix B: Some Common Abbreviations. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
  • A patient chooses a treatment the staff would not have picked. Which professional value says the choice belongs to the patient? Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under CC BY 4.0, Chapter 1 glossary. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
  • A problem list says "hyperglycemia." What does the prefix hyper- tell the reader? MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine), Appendix A: Word Parts and What They Mean. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
  • An operative report lists an appendectomy. What does the word part -ectomy mean? MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine), Appendix A: Word Parts and What They Mean. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
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General Health Science Technical Skills, continued

  • In a health care setting, what is the most common way microorganisms travel from one patient to the next? Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under CC BY 4.0, section 4.4. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
  • Which layer of the skin is the outermost and acts as a barrier to infection? Wikipedia, Epidermis. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills
  • Which part of the brain has a major part in motor control? Wikipedia, Cerebellum. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), General Health Science Technical Skills

Academic Foundations 5

  • A clinic logs 22, 25, 19, 24 and 20 visits on five days. What is the mean number of visits per day? Written to the NOCTI Foundational Credential Blueprint for Health Informatics (1387), Academic Foundations; the answer is arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked twice
  • A coder finishes 96 charts in an 8-hour shift. At that rate, how many charts are finished in 5 hours? Written to the NOCTI Foundational Credential Blueprint for Health Informatics (1387), Academic Foundations; the answer is arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked twice
  • A record gives a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius. What is that in degrees Fahrenheit? Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under CC BY 4.0, section 7.5. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Academic Foundations; the arithmetic was worked twice
  • An audit finds 18 incomplete records in a sample of 120. What percent of the sample is incomplete? Written to the NOCTI Foundational Credential Blueprint for Health Informatics (1387), Academic Foundations; the answer is arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked twice
  • Five patients stayed 2, 3, 3, 5 and 12 days. What is the median length of stay? Wikipedia, Median. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Academic Foundations; the arithmetic was worked twice

Systems 3

  • A county health office tracks who gets a disease, when and where. Which field of study is this? Wikipedia, Epidemiology. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Systems
  • A health plan usually covers care only from doctors who work for or contract with the plan. Which type of plan is this? HealthCare.gov glossary, hmo. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Systems
  • Which program is federal health insurance for people 65 and older and certain younger people with disabilities? HealthCare.gov glossary, medicare. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Systems

Communications 4

  • A manager wants a figure with one bar per department, each bar as tall as that department's record count. Which chart is this? Wikipedia, Bar chart. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Communications
  • A patient at the desk says "I'm fine" while frowning and speaking very fast. Which of these is part of nonverbal communication? Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under CC BY 4.0, Chapter 1 glossary. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Communications
  • A report must show what share of last month's visits each of four clinics had. Which chart is built to show parts of a whole? Wikipedia, Pie chart. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Communications
  • After explaining a form, a clerk asks the patient to say in their own words what happens next. What is this method called? Wikipedia, Teach-back method. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Communications

Information Technology Applications 3

  • A clinic's recall notice has the same wording for everyone, with placeholders for each patient's name and mailing label. Which word processor tool fills the placeholders from a list? Wikipedia, Mail merge. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Information Technology Applications
  • A staff email goes to one manager, and a copy goes to a second person without the manager being made aware. Which email field was used for the second person? Wikipedia, Blind carbon copy. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Information Technology Applications
  • In a patient table of a database, the medical record number is set as the primary key. What does a primary key do? Wikipedia, Primary key. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Information Technology Applications

Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Decision Making 3

  • A team draws a diagram shaped like a fish skeleton, with the problem at the head and groups of possible causes on the bones. What is it? Wikipedia, Ishikawa diagram. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Decision Making
  • Claims keep being denied. A supervisor asks "why?" about the answer to each "why?" until the root cause shows. Which technique is this? Wikipedia, Five whys. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Decision Making
  • You must judge whether a health website can be trusted. According to MedlinePlus, where on the site can most of the answers usually be found? MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine), Evaluating Health Information. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Decision Making

Leadership and Teamwork 3

  • A department lead improves a filing process in a repeating cycle: plan a change, try it, check the results, act on what was learned. What is the cycle called? Wikipedia, PDCA. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Leadership and Teamwork
  • A team uses SBAR to hand off a problem. What do the four letters stand for? Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, TeamSTEPPS, Tool: SBAR. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Leadership and Teamwork
  • In a new project team, members voice their opinions and conflict arises as power and status are sorted out. Which of Tuckman's stages is this? Wikipedia, Tuckman's stages of group development, Storming. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Leadership and Teamwork

Safety, Health, and Environmental 4

  • A records clerk lifts a full box of charts from the floor. Which rule of body mechanics protects the back? Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under CC BY 4.0, section 3.4. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Safety, Health, and Environmental
  • A used needle is found on a counter in a clinic. What does the OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard say about recapping contaminated needles? OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.1030. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Safety, Health, and Environmental
  • A visitor collapses in the lobby and a coworker brings the AED from the wall. What does an AED do? Wikipedia, Automated external defibrillator. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Safety, Health, and Environmental
  • Under the OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard, what may take the place of a biohazard label on a container of regulated waste? OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.1030. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Safety, Health, and Environmental

Employability and Career Development 3

  • A graduate of an accredited associate degree program in health information wants a credential. Which certification exam does that program qualify the graduate to sit for? Wikipedia, Health information management, Accredited HIM educational program development. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Employability and Career Development
  • An applicant for a records clerk job adds a one-page letter of introduction to the résumé. What is this letter called? Wikipedia, Cover letter. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Employability and Career Development
  • Which document presents the facts about yourself, listing your skills and accomplishments for an employer? Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under CC BY 4.0, Chapter 2 glossary. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Employability and Career Development

Health Informatics 7

  • A data set is released for a community health report. Under HIPAA, when is health information no longer individually identifiable? 45 CFR 164.514 (ecfr.gov). Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics
  • A lab system labels each test result with a universal code so another hospital's system can tell which test it was. Which standard identifies laboratory observations? Wikipedia, LOINC. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics
  • An encounter form reads "type 2 diabetes." In the United States, which code set turns a diagnosis like this into a code? CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, ICD-10-CM. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics
  • Two clerks share one login to the electronic record. Which required safeguard of the HIPAA Security Rule does this break? 45 CFR 164.312 (ecfr.gov). Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics
  • What does electronic health information exchange (HIE) allow? HealthIT.gov, What is HIE?. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics
  • Which code set describes the medical, surgical and diagnostic services a physician provides, and who develops it? Wikipedia, Current Procedural Terminology. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics
  • Which job in health information has, as its main duty, reading clinical statements and assigning standardized codes to them? Wikipedia, Clinical coder. Written to NOCTI Health Informatics (1387), Health Informatics

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the competency list of the Foundational Credential Blueprint for Health Informatics (code 1387, version 01, copyright 2017) that NOCTI publishes at https://www.nocti.org/wp-content/uploads/Blueprints/FoundHealthInfo1387.pdf , read 2026-10-13: a written assessment of 104 questions in 2 hours over eleven areas (General Health Science Technical Skills 17%; Academic Foundations 11%; Systems 7%; Ethics and Legal Responsibilities 7%; Communications 9%; Information Technology Applications 6%; Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Decision Making 6%; Leadership and Teamwork 6%; Safety, Health, and Environmental 9%; Employability and Career Development 6%; Health Informatics 16%). A Foundational assessment has a written part only. This bank holds 46 in those proportions. Every fact in a question and its explanation was read on 2026-10-13 on the public page named under it: the HIPAA rules in 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 on ecfr.gov, pages of CMS, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, HealthIT.gov, HealthCare.gov, AHRQ and the National Library of Medicine, the OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard, Nursing Assistant, an Open RN textbook published by WisTech Open under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license, and Wikipedia. Every count in a sum is made up for the drill, and each computed answer was worked twice. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site. The open textbook is used for facts only, and no text, table or example is copied from it.

How it works

This free NOCTI Health Informatics practice test has 46 questions of our own, sorted by the eleven areas of the Foundational blueprint, code 1387. It is unofficial, not affiliated with NOCTI, and practice for an exam, not medical advice.

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Eleven areas, in the blueprint's shares

General Health Science Technical Skills is 17% of the assessment and Health Informatics 16%. Academic Foundations is 11%, Communications and Safety, Health, and Environmental 9% each, Systems and Ethics and Legal Responsibilities 7% each, and Information Technology Applications, Problem Solving, Leadership and Teamwork, and Employability 6% each.

A written test only

Health Informatics is a NOCTI Foundational assessment: a written part and no performance jobs. The timed round runs all 46 questions in 53 minutes, the pace of 104 questions in 2 hours.

  • HIPAA answers cite the section, such as 45 CFR 164.524 for record access and 164.404 for breach notices.
  • ICD-10-CM codes the diagnosis. CPT describes the medical, surgical and diagnostic services that were provided.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the NOCTI Health Informatics test?

The blueprint lists 104 written questions with an administration time of 2 hours, given in one, two or three sessions. As a Foundational assessment it has no performance part.

What is on the NOCTI Health Informatics test?

About one sixth is health informatics itself: medical documents with billing and diagnostic codes, record storage within legal guidelines, health data and jobs in the field. The largest area, General Health Science Technical Skills, covers medical terminology, infection control, anatomy and physiology.

What is a passing score on the NOCTI Health Informatics test?

The blueprint names no passing score, so nothing here says pass or fail. Your instructor or test coordinator can tell you which score your program looks for.

Where is the NOCTI Health Informatics blueprint?

It is the Foundational Credential Blueprint, code 1387, a free PDF on nocti.org/credentials/blueprints. It holds the competencies, the weights and ten sample questions, none of which appears on this page.

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