Medical Office Management Flashcards

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Disadvantage of using an electronic scheduler

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You must look at each page to find a patient's forgotten appointment.

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Office manager

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Decision-maker for inactive or closed patient files in a medical office

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SOAP

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Documentation type for an orderly series of steps in medical cases

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Symptoms

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Subjective or internal conditions felt by the patient

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Signs

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Objective or external factors that can be seen or felt by the practitioner or measured by an instrument

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Patient registration form

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The first document found in a patient's financial record

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Abbreviations

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To reduce confusion in medical records, these are being used less often, except for those that are very clear in meaning

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Personal health record

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An electronic version of a patient’s comprehensive medical history and lifelong health record

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Portal

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Many offices and EHR systems today allow patients to access and interact with certain parts of their EHR by providing a patient portal to the system.

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Date and time stamp

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The access codes that allow users to enter patient records in an EHR system insert a(n) date and time stamp in the medical record, so that office administration can tell who is accessing each medical record.