General HIM
HIM Acronyms
Career Prep
Medical Terminology
AHIMA Credentials
100
This numeric filing system is considered the most efficient within HIM departments or warehouses when dealing with paper records because charts are distributed evenly.
What is Terminal digit filing (TDF)?
100
ICD-10-CM
What is International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification?
100
What is the name of the council that represents AHIMA’s student population?
What is Student Advisory Committee?
100
This procedure is an inspection of the bladder.
What is a cystoscopy?
100
What is AHIMA’s entry-level coding credential, established in 2001?
What is the Certified Coding Associate (CCA)?
200
These are often used across many areas of the HIM Department. These ensure tracking is done on how long a task is taking for an individual and the department. This tracking can help with staffing levels, planning, strategizing, and determining where improvements are needed.
What are productivity standards?
200
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
200
What online tool is an interactive visual representation of the job titles and roles that make up the scope of HIM practice and the career pathways associated with them?
What is the Career Map?
200
The word root for “chest.”
What is thorac/o?
200
What is AHIMA’s privacy-related credential?
What is CHPS?
300
One patient health record that includes both paper and electronic formats.
What is a hybrid record?
300
CMS
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid?
300
What is AHIMA’s official job board?
What is Career Assist: Job Bank?
300
Suffix that means to breakdown, separate, or release (as in adhesions).
What is –lysis?
300
What is the total number of credentials AHIMA offers?
What are Nine?
400
As defined by a healthcare organization, this record supports the decisions made in a patient's care, supports the revenue sought from third-party payers, documents the services provided as legal testimony regarding the patient's illness or injury, response to treatment, and caregiver decisions and, serves as the organization's business record called?
What is the Legal Health Record?
400
BAA
What is Business Associate Agreement?
400
What are the four levels of merit scholarships the AHIMA Foundation offers?
What are the Associate's degree scholarship, the Bachelor's degree/Post-Baccalaureate certificate scholarship, the Master's degree scholarship, and the Doctoral degree scholarship?
400
This term means “cold” or “freeze.”
What is cry/o?
400
What does the acronym CCHIIM stand for?
What is the Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management?
500
The purpose of this hospital program, performed either concurrently or retrospectively to the patient encounter, is to improve clinical specificity which allows coders to assign more concise classification codes.
What is Clinical Documentation Improvement?
500
R-ADT
What is Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer?
500
Which AHIMA program (available only to members) joins students with experienced HIM professionals to answer questions and give career advice?
What is the Mentor Match Program?
500
This is the term for high potassium in the blood.
What is hyperkalemia?
500
What company administers the AHIMA certification tests?
What is Pearson Vue?
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