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PHS CH 2
Career Skills in Health Informatics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| career portfolio | a written record of career planning and preparation. |
| confidentiality | the legally protected right of patients to have their personal and medical information kept private. |
| employability skills | skills related to choosing a career, acquiring and keeping a job, changing jobs, and advancing in a career. |
| health informatics services | career pathway that involves methods, devices, and resources used to acquire, store, retrieve, and work with healthcare and biomedical information. |
| HOSA-Future Health Professionals | a career and technical student organization for future healthcare workers. |
| interdisciplinary healthcare team | a group of professionals from different health science training backgrounds working in coordination toward a common goal for the patient. |
| internship | practical work or training experience that allows students to apply what they have learned in class. |
| medical coding | the act of assigning numbers to descriptions of a patient’s diseases, injuries, and treatments according to established codes. |
| personal traits | an individual’s unique combination of qualities and characteristics. |
| professional look | the standards of appearance normally expected of a qualified person in a work environment |
| technical skills | the ability to perform tasks in a specific healthcare discipline or department. |