AMCA Certification Exam | 2023/24

AMCA Certification Exam | 2023/24 Empathy - Having an understanding and compassion for what the patient may be experiencing Established Patient - Has been seen by the physician within 3 years New Patient - Hasn't been to the physician in 3 years CMS - Center for Medicare and Medicaid services HIPAA Title I - Healthcare Access, Portability and Renewability HIPAA Title II - Preventing Health Care Fraud and Abuse HIPAA Title III - Tax Related Health Provisions HIPAA Title IV - Application and Enforcement of Group Health Plan Requirements HIPAA Title V - Revenue Offsets HIPAA - Health Insurance and Accountability Act Expressed Consent - A patient acknowledges that they have received proper direction regarding the nature of their medical treatment verbally or by signing a comment form Implied Consent - A patient uses body language top indicate that they agree to receive a form of medical care Respondeat Superior - "let the master answer"; physician is responsible for medical staff mistakes Coordination of Benefits - C.O.B; Indicates how a policy well pay when more than one insurance plan is in effect HITECH - Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act; Promotes the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (EHR) ONCHIT - Office of National Coordination for Health Technology Core Function of EHR - Health Information and data elements Core Function of EHR - Results management Core Function of EHR - Order management Core Function of EHR - Decision support Core Function of EHR - Electronic communications and connectivity Core Function of EHR - Patient support Core Function of EHR - Administrative processes Core Function of EHR - Reporting and population management Electronic Medical Records (EMR) - Computerized records of one physicians encounter with a patient over time (intranet) Electronic Health Records (EHR) - Reflects the data from ALL sources that have treated the individual (interoperable to other facilities) Acute Care - Most often refers to a hospital, treats patients with urgent problems that cannot be handled Personal Health Records (PHR) - Maintained and owned by the patient Ambulatory Care - Refers to treatment without admission to hospital Clinical Templates - Allows doctors to document patient encounters into an EHR on a structured form RADT - Registration, admissions, discharge, transfer Unique Patient Identifier (UPI) - Links all clinical observations, tests, procedures, villains, evaluations, and diagnoses to the patient Clinical Vocabularies - Set a common definitions for medical terms that ease communication by decreasing uncertainty SNOMED-CT - Clinical vocabulary designed to encompass all trends used in medicine LOINC - Trends and codes used for electronic exchange of lab results and clinical observations UMLS - Thesaurus database of medical terms Fixed Appointment Scheduling - One patient is scheduled for a specific appointment time Cluster Scheduling - Scheduling a group of patients cooking in for the fake tour of service should be sched