Chapter 6
This is a third-party payer
What is Medicare?
Congestive heart failure and asthma are examples of
What are chronic conditions?
Giving two or more patients the same appointment slot with the same provider is known as
What is double booking?
The office manager reviews the staff ____________ every 6 months to determine if any unauthorized information was accessed.
What is an audit trail?
An element of the user interface on which the user can click to execute a command, such as confirm, cancel, or exit
What is button?
Genetic disease risk would be covered under which part of history
What is family history?
“Patient complains of dizziness, headaches, stomach pain.” This is considered:
What are symptoms?
Once the retention period is over, the chart may be:
What is purged?
In order to release patient information for participation in a research study, a ________ form would be completed in SimChart for the Medical Office.
What is a disclosure authorization form?
The record of a patient who has not been seen by the provider in 3 or more years.
What is inactive records?
Smoking status of the patient would be discussed under which history type
What is social history?
Weight and height are considered
anthropometric measurements.
To link a phone message to a specific patient in SimChart for the Medical Office, you must click on
This consumer reporting agency is regulated under the _____________ Act.
What is the fair credit reporting?
This is the landing page for SimChart for the Medical Office assignments
What is calendar?
The reason for the patient to seek care from the provider is called
What is Chief Complaint?
Pulse, blood pressure and respiration are examples of
What are vital signs?
A device that encodes documents in order to transmit them over telephone lines is a/an:
What is a fax machine?
Medical offices submitting claims electronically are called:
When it is certain that a patient will no longer be returning to the practice, that patient’s record is considered to be
What is a closed record?
A“Condition presents suddenly and is usually severe but of brief duration.”
What is acute?
Data documentation in the patient’s own words about why he or she presents to the office is
What is subjective information?
This is template from the list of letters in SimChart for the Medical Office that would be most appropriate to use to tell a patient about an upcoming educational opportunity that the patient had inquired about.
What is a blank letter?
To locate and complete the Medical Records Release document, you would click on this icon in SimChart for the Medical Office
What is form repository?
In SimChart for the Medical Office, when the user selects the clinical care module, he or she will be prompted to:
What is perform a patient search?