Question | Answer |
Problem List | Acute conditions for which the patient was recently seen as well as chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and so on , which are monitored every visit |
Triage | The screening of patients for allocation of treatment based on the urgency of their need for care |
Flow Sheets | A feature of software that presents data from multiple encounter in column format resembling a spreadsheet |
FVC | Forced Vital Capacity |
H | History and Physical |
JCAHO | Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
LIS | Laboratory Information System |
MVV | Maximal Voluntary Ventilation |
VC | Vital Capacity |
Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
Advance Beneficiary Notice/ ABN | Information presented to patient in advance that the test or procedure will not be covered by Medicare or insurance |
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality/AHRQ | a Public Health Service agency in the Department of Health and Human Services to support research designed to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans |
BMI | Body Mass Index |
DtaP | Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis (whooping cough); a combination vaccine |
Drug utilization review/DUR | the process of comparing a prescription drug to a patients history and recent medications for contraindication, overdosing, underdosing, allergic reaction, drug-to-drug interactions, and drug/food interactions |
HepB | Hepatitis B (vaccine) |
Hib | Haemophilus Influenza Type B (vaccine) |
HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus (disease) |
IPV | Inactivated Polio Virus (Salk vaccine) |
MMR | An acronym for a combination of vaccines to immunize against Measles, Mumps, Rubella (German measles) |
OB | Obstetrics is the field of specialty concerned with pregnancy, childbirth, and the period following |
Pending oreder | lab test that has been ordered, but no results have been received |
vital signs | functional measurements recorded at nearly every visit, temperature, respiration rate , pulse rate & blood pressure; most clinic measure height & weight |
varicella | chickenpox(vaccine) |
Place of Service Codes | used on professional claims to specify the entity where where service(s) were rendered |
CMS-1500 | claim form |
rejected claim | has not been or cannot be processed for various reasons |
Clean claim | submitted within the program or policy time limit and contains all necessary information |
Invalid claim | medicare claim that contains complete, necessary information but its illogical or incorrect |
NPI | national provider identifier |
OCR | optical character recognition |
cover entity | organization under HIPAA laws |
clearing house | independent organization that receives insurance claims, performs software edits and redistributes |
Alzheimer's Disease | severe form of senile dementia |
Bell's Palsy | loss os sensation or impairment of causes motor function |
Reyes Syndrome | causes edemia of the brain |
Tay-Sachs Disease | degeneration of brain tissue |
diskectomy | surigal incision of an interverbal disk |
epiduroscopy | surgery introduction medication via endoscope into epidural space |
Transcutaneous Electrical nerve Stimulations | TENS |
Oligo | little, scanty |
micro | small |
esthesi/o | feeling, sensation |
CNS | central nervous system |
Neurons | specialized conductors of impulse that able the body to interact with its enviroment |
cerebrum | control center |
cerebellum | coordinates muscle activity and maintain posture and balance 2 large parts of the brain |
PVC | pneumococal conjugate (vaccine) |
Td | Tetanus and Diphtheria toxoids vaccine |
WNL | With Normal Limits in medical charts |