Chapter 1
Recording of a predetermined plane in the body using an x-ray beam that is measured, recorded, and then processed by a computer for display on a monitor.
Computed Tomography (CT)
Document specifying the minimum requirements for accreditation of an educational program by a joint review committee.
Standards
All of the body’s cells except germ cells.
Somatic Cells
The classification system that replaced ICD-9-CM, Volumes 1 and 2 on October 1, 2015. This classification system is used for diagnosis coding in all healthcare settings in the United States.
International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)
Population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind, distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics.
Race
Measurement of bone density using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA or DXA) to detect osteoporosis.
Bone Densitometry (BD)
List of individuals holding certification in a particular profession.
Registry
Unit in the International System used to measure the dose equivalence, or biologic effectiveness, of differing radiations; 1 Sv = 100 rem.
Sievert (Sv)
Federal legislation passed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system; components that affect health information include privacy, security, and the establishment of standards and requirements for the electronic transmission of certain health information.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
An acronym used to describe individuals who identify as other than heterosexual, i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer and/or questioning, intersex, and asexual and/or ally, plus others.
LGBTQ+
Radiologic procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Cardiac Interventional Radiography (CI)
Group of persons appointed by sponsoring organizations to oversee the accreditation process.
Joint Review Committee (JRC)
Interaction with matter in which a photon strikes an inner shell electron, causing its ejection from orbit with the complete absorption of the photon’s energy.
Photoelectric Interaction
The allied health profession built around the management of the healthcare record in its physical form, as well as the management of data and information within the medical record.
Health Information Management (HIM)
Chromosomal designation of female or male being.
Gender
Ultrasonographic imaging of the heart and associated vasculature.
Echocardiography
Document specifying the minimum quality standards for the accreditation of an educational program as approved by the appropriate joint review committee sponsors.
Essentials and Guidelines
Units of energy equal to 1000 electron volts.
Kiloelectron Volts (keV)
The interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.
Health Informatics
Tendency toward viewing the norms and values of the individual’s own culture as absolute and using them as a standard against which all other cultures are measured.
Ethnocentrism
The creation of sectional images of the body that demonstrate the physiologic function of various organs and systems.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Voluntary process through which an agency grants recognition to an individual on demonstration, usually by examination, of specialized professional skills.
Certification
Interaction with matter in which a low-energy photon (below 10 kiloelectron volts) is absorbed and released with its same energy, frequency, and wavelength but with a change of direction.
Classic Coherent Scattering
Comprehensive listing of medical terms and codes for the uniform designation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; used in the United States for coding for physician reimbursement and hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical procedures.
Current Procedural Terminology, 4th Edition (CPT-4)
Actions involved in the unequal or prejudicial treatment of people because they belong to a certain category, group, or race. May also include disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Discrimination
The process of patient financial and health information moving into, through, and out of the healthcare organization, culminating with the healthcare organization receiving reimbursement for services provided.
Revenue Cycle
Belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior.
Racism
Healthcare services or supplies that are needed to diagnose or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease, or its symptoms.
Medical necessity
Irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality.
Homophobia
A longitudinal electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind, distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics.
Race