Grab Bag
120/80 is normal for adults
IV
What is intravenous? Medication given through vein
IDD
What is Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities?
This health care or supportive care provided by a professional caregiver in the individual home where the patient or client is living.
What is Home Health?
Blood work, lab tests, telehealth, and primary care.
Scribbled in haste amidst appointments, these cryptic notes detail a patient's journey through care, chronicling diagnoses, interventions, and perhaps even the occasional medical mystery.
What is a progress note?
OD
What is once daily?
This field connects actions with the well-being of body, mind, and spirit, encompassing mental health, therapy, and addiction recovery.
What is a Behavioral Health?
Imagine turning 65 and suddenly having access to a government-funded healthcare program that covers a wide range of medical expenses.
What is Medicare?
Behavioral health, IDD, child and family services, and addiction treatment.
What is human services?
Healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearing houses, and business associates must follow the privacy rule of this 1996 federal law.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
PO
What is "per orem" or taken by mouth or orally?
This role plans, seeks, and monitors services for different social agencies and staff on behalf of a client.
What is Case Management?
Offering more than just shelter, this facility assists with daily tasks, coordinates healthcare, and keeps watchful eyes to safeguard residents' well-being.
What is Assisted Living?
Skilled nursing, palliative care, home care and hospice, and rehabilitation,
What is post acute?
Numbers assigned to each task and service a healthcare provider offers. They include medical, surgical, and diagnostic services. Insurers use the numbers to determine how much money to pay a provider.
What is a CPT code?
BID
What is twice daily?
This law protects substance use disorder patient records and the law protects the records even after they are disclosed.
42 CFR (Code of Federal Regualtions) Part 2
This facility is typically provided for rehabilitation patients that do not require long-term care services.
What is Skilled Nursing Facility?
Dr. Jones walks into the emergency room and finds a patient wearing a smartwatch from Brand A and a continuous glucose monitor from Brand B. Both devices are sending vital data, but the hospital's monitoring system only works with Brand A devices. What major challenge in healthcare does this scenario highlight?
Interoperability Issues
Doctors around the world speak a secret language, using a complex code to describe every illness and injury imaginable. This code, with over 70,000 entries, is constantly evolving to keep up with new medical discoveries.
What ICD-10?
PRN
What is as needed?
Serving underserved populations, these community clinics offer primary care and qualify for special Medicare and Medicaid payments.
What is FQHC or Federally Qualified Health Center?
While not a cure, this specialized care eases the burdens of serious illness, focusing on symptom relief and emotional support.
What is Palliative Care?
A patient suffering from a rare disease visits a specialist in a different city. The specialist needs access to the patient's complete medical history, including previous diagnoses and treatments, but their hospitals use different electronic health record systems. What technology bridge can make this information readily available to both doctors, improving the patient's care?
Health Information Exchange