HS111: Medical Terminology — Unit 3 Analysis Chart EXAMPLE TERM: pulmonology | Prefix | n/a | Word Root(s) | pulmon | Combining Vowel(s) | o | Combining Form(s) | pulmon/o | Suffix | -logy | Analysis Diagram | pulmon/o/logy | Plural Form | n/a | Abbreviation | n/a | Prefix Definition | n/a | Word Root Definition(s) | Lung | Suffix Definition | Study of | Definition (Technical) | Study of the lung (a branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the lung) | Definition (Layman) | An area of medicine that studies the lung and conditions that deal with the lung. | New Term from One Word Root | Pulmonologist | In this Assignment you will need to complete an analysis chart for ten (10) medical terms. Please be sure to complete the information for all 14 spaces. If there is not an applicable answer please indicate this by entering “n/a” in the space. At the end of the project be sure to list all applicable references and cite them in APA format.
Amy Bauer 16 February 2011 SCI 115 Professor: Susan Kennedy Personalized Medicine Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing in general the customization of healthcare, that have decisions and practices that are being tailored to individual patients in whatever ways possible. Recently, this has mainly involved the systematic use of genetic or other information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's preventative; extension of traditional approaches to understanding and treating illness. Since the beginning of the study of medicine, physicians have employed evidence found through observation to make a diagnosis or to prescribe treatment. In the past, this was presumably tailored to each individual, but personalized medicine makes treatment more specific. Over the years of medical care have been focuses on standards of care based on studies.
A copayment is: A set amount that each patient pays for each office visit 9. Under this type of plan, insured patients must designate a primary care physician (PCP) Health maintenance plan 10. When physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers contract with one or more HMOs or directly with employers to provide care, this is called. A physician-hospital organization 11. Under this type of plan, a patient may see providers outside the plan, but the patient pays a higher portion of the fees: Preferred provider plan 12.
This is a class aid which should make your work easier. Refer to the book (?Chapter 5) for what would qualify for these risk and you may have some totally different types of risk so please feel free to use them. (mjd) The following is copied from the Course Project Tab Week 3: Project Risk Breakdown Structure For your third course project milestone, develop a Risk Breakdown Structure. To do this, use the Week 3 Course Project Assignment Template (PROJ420_W3_AssignmentTemplate.docx) in Doc Sharing. In order to keep the RBS manageable, identify ten risks from your project to be included in your RBS.
Furthermore, this student will present recommendations to address the problems that exist on the case of Interwest Healthcare Corp as well as provide a commentary regarding how personal views on the problem could drive the proposed suggestions regarding the case of Interwest Healthcare Corp. Interwest Healthcare Corp. is a nonprofit organization in the healthcare sector that operates 10 hospitals in three different states (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2009). The case study explains how the CEO and CFO of the organizations are concerned about quality of the data that is being input into their system, which is used to control the organization. The data input includes patient information, management reports, cost of treatments, financial planning, as well as reports that are use to guarantee and audit funding of grants from the federal government (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2009). After a hostile teambuilding retreat that was use to explain the importance of accurate data entry into the organization’s system, management and staff are pointing fingers regarding the issues that is affecting the organization. On one hand, the organization staff is blaming management of not paying attention to patient services, and on the other hand, management is accusing the staff of not exercising accuracy in their data input and not understanding the implications of these mistakes for the entire
Module 1 Post-Assessment For the following ten questions, please write your answers in complete sentences, giving examples and details where appropriate. Save your work, and submit it using the instructions on the course page. 1. When gathering information for research, why is it important to evaluate the currency of information and its source? It’s has to be up to date for the information to be current and regularly maintain 2.
Information About Your Assignment Task(s) | Unit No: |2 |Assignment No: |1 | |Unit Title: |Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care | |Assessment Evidence: |Table, Diagram | |Assessment Criteria being addressed: |P1 | | | | | | |Hand out Date: |w/c 17.09.12 |Hand in Date: |w/c 15.10.12
1.) Define each of four main areas of IT healthcare system applications. The four main areas of IT healthcare system applications are: • Clinical information systems • Administrative information systems • Decision support systems • Internet and e-health 2.) Summarize the impact of medical technology in each of the following areas and give examples: o Quality of care: : Quality of care is enhanced only when novel processes can avoid or postponement the inception of serious ailment, provide better analysis, making faster and additional comprehensive cures possible, intensification safety of medicinal treatment, minimalize disagreeable side effects, promote sooner recovery from operation, intensification life expectancy, and add to quality of life. o Quality of life: Quality of life indicates a patient’s overall approval with life throughout medical treatment.
For the medical insurance specialist to complete their duties, they need to follow a series of ten different steps in the billing process that leads to a maximum, appropriate, and timely payment for the patients’ medical services. Step 1 Preregister patients – With this step you need to get the patients contact and insurance information. This will help in making sure the appropriate visits can be scheduled and the current insurance information is in the computer for proper billing information goes into the computer system for the vist. Step 2 Establish financial responsibilities for visits – This is a very important step in the process because the specialist needs to verify insurance eligibility and figure out how much to collect at the time of the visit from the patient. To determine financial responsibility the specialist needs to know what services are covered and are not covered under the patients plan.
The change is the way of making a correction. Usually the correction is by way of an attachment to an EMR. Separate from the paper medical record, a new document is created showing the correction(s) and computed to the EMR with a computer code as a reference to indicate as an attachment to the original document. An electronic signature is required to confirm the attachment. (McWay, 2003, p.73) Question 2: When should the patient be advised of the existence of computerized databases containing medical information about the patient?