General PM/EHR Terms
Initials, Initials!
Documentation
Health Care Regulation
Release of Information
100
The use of computers and electronic communications to manage medical information and its secure exchange is known as
What is HIT health information technology
100
MIPPA stands for
What is Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act?
100
The meeting of a patient with a physician for the purpose of providing health care is called
What is an encounter?
100
The main federal government agency responsible for health care is
What is CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
100
To inform patients as to how their information is protected, each patient must receive this document.
What is NNP Notice of Privacy Practices?
200
A software program used to perform administrative and financial functions in a medical office is
What is practice management
200
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
200
Care to keep diseases from occurring or to enable early detection and treatment is known as
What is preventive care?
200
CMS is an agency of this government department
What is HHS Department of Health and Human Services?
200
This document is signed by the patient verifying they have read the NPP.
What is Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Privacy Practices?
300
A computerized lifelong health care record for an individual that incorporates data from all sources that provide treatment for the individual is called
What is an E.H.R electronic health record?
300
REC stands for
What is Regional Extension Centers?
300
Care that is provided for illnesses with a sudden onset is known as
What is Acute Care?
300
The state commissioners of insurance investigate...
What are consumer complaints about the quality and financial aspects of health care?
300
These are three reasons patient information can be released without their consent.
What is TPO, Treatment, Payment, and health care Operations?
400
A computerized record of one physician's encounters with a patient over time is a
What is a EMR electronic medical record?
400
HIE stands for
What is Health Information Exchange?
400
Treatment that is provided without admission to a hospital is called
What is ambulatory care?
400
There are three parts to HIPAA's Administrative Simplification provisions...
What is HIPAA's Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Electronic Transactions and Code Sets standards?
400
A document used by covered entities to inform patients about unauthorized individuals accessing their PHI.
What is a breach notification?
500
These are private, secure electronic files that are created, maintained, and owned by the patient.
What is PHR private health record?
500
HITECH stands for
What is Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health?
500
Complete the statement: An unwritten law of medical insurance is that if it was documented, it was not done, and it can not be
What is billed?
500
To prevent breaches of health information, the HITECH Act requires keeping patients' protected health information secure by making it...
What is unusable, unreadable, and indecipherable?
500
Medical offices must keep this document listing of each patient's authorized disclosure of PHI.
What is a disclosure log?