CH 2-Career Skills in Health Informatics

practical work or training experience that allows students to apply what they have learned in class

• career portfolio

• technical skills

• internship

• HOSA-Future Health Professionals

skills related to choosing a career, acquiring and keeping a job, changing jobs, and advancing in a career

• employability skills

• resume

• personal traits

• confidentiality

the ability to perform tasks in a specific healthcare discipline or department

• internship

• confidentiality

• technical skills

• telemedicine

the legally protected right of patients to have their personal and medical information kept private

• memorandum

• indispensible

• competent

• confidentiality

the act of assigning numbers to descriptions of patient's diseases, injuries, and treatments according to established codes

• transcriptionist

• health information management (HIM)

• medical coding

• personal identifying information

a written record of career planning and preparation

• career portfolio

• memorandum

• internship

• dictation

the standards of appearance normally expected of a qualified person in a work environment

• personal traits

• HOSA-Future Health Professionals

• indispensable

• professional look

career pathway that involves methods, devices, and resources used to acquire, store, retrieve, and work with healthcare and biomedical information

• telemedicine

• health informatics services

• therapeutic health services

• public safety services

a group of professionals from different health science training backgrounds working in coordination toward a common goal for the patient

• interdisciplinary healthcare team

• health information management

• personal identifying information

• professional traits

an individual's unique combination of qualities and characteristics

• résumé

• personal traits

• indispensible

• clinical information