Written Communication
This is a type of letter is commonly used to request a patient's medical records from another healthcare provider
What is a professional business letter?
This office machine converts paper documents into digital files that can be stored or emailed.
What is a scanner?
This is the name of the body's framework that supports the body, protects internal organs, and works with muscles to produce movement.
What is the skeletal system?
These types of muscle is attached to bones and is generally under voluntary control.
What is skeletal muscle?
The abbreviation EHR means.
What is Electronic Health Record?
This is the large smooth ball-shaped end of a long bone
What is the head?
This abbreviation cc mean in correspondence, and why might it appear at the bottom of a letter.
What is carbon copy?
This term describes arranging a workstation to reduce strain, discomfort, and repetitive-motion injuries.
What is ergonomics?
This is the medical term for the kneecap.
What is the patella?
This muscle tissue is found in the walls of hollow organs, such as the intestines, and functions involuntarily.
What is smooth muscle?
The medical abbreviation ROM means what when documenting a patient's joint movement.
What is range of motion?
This is the large rough process of a bone.
What is the trochanter or the tuberosity?
This type of communication should a medical assistant use to notify a patient about an appointment while protecting confidential information.
What is professional, privacy-conscious written communication using an approved method?
This is the name for the physical parts of a computer, such as the keyboard, monitor, mouse, and printer.
What is hardware?
This is a type of joint of the shoulder, which allows movement in many directions.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
This strong band of connective tissue attaches muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
The suffix -itis means this in a medical term, such as arthritis.
What is inflammation?
This is the projection above or on the condyle.
What is the epicondyle?
This term for a brief message placed at the beginning of a letter that identifies its subject.
What is a subject line or reference line?
This type of computer program is used to create letters, reports, and other written documents.
What is word-processing software?
The medical term for a break or crack in a bone.
What is a fracture?
This is the medical term for a muscle that bends a joint, decreasing the angle between two bones.
What is a flexor?
The prefix osteo- means this in terms such as osteoporosis and osteocyte.
What is bone?
This is the small rough process of the bone.
What is the tubercle?
Before sending an email containing patient information, which federal privacy law must the medical assistant consider.
What is HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This is a security practice that a medical assistant should follow before leaving a computer containing patient records unattended.
What is locking or signing out of the computer to prevent unauthorized access?
This bone forms the upper jaw and holds the upper teeth.
What is the maxilla? The mandible forms the lower jaw.
Thismuscle separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities and is the primary muscle used for breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
The abbreviation MSK commonly stand for what in healthcare documentation.
What is musculoskeletal?
This is the smooth opening for nerves and blood vessels.
What is the foramen?
A medical assistant should do this when a business letter contains an error before it is mailed.
What is correcting and proofreading the letter before sending it, checking accuracy, spelling, grammar, names, dates, and recipient information?
A medical assistant do this if a printer, computer, or other piece of office equipment malfunctions.
What is following the office reporting procedure and notifying the appropriate supervisor or technical support, rather than attempting unauthorized repairs?
These two main divisions of the adult human skeleton, and which bones belong to each.
What are the axial skeleton (skull, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum) and the appendicular skeleton (limbs, shoulder girdle, and pelvic girdle)?
These are the three types of muscle tissue which make up the heart?
What are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle?
This is the medical term for a condition involving inflammation of a tendon and its surrounding sheath.
What is tenosynovitis?
This is a slit-like opening of the bone.
What is a fissure?