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PHS Ch4
vocabulary 4
| health informatics services | career pathway that involves methods, devices, and resources used to acquire, store, retrieve, and work with healthcare and biomedical information |
| 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 |
| competitive events | HOSA program that recognizes competencies developed by members through health science education and training |
| technical skills | practical tasks performed in a specific healthcare discipline or department |
| Coding and Revenue Cycle | health informatics job family that processes patient financial and health information for payment purposes confidential private |
| Compliance and Risk Assessment | health informatics job family that manages patient information to satisfy legal storage and security requirements |
| confidential | private |
| dictation | a verbal recording, describing a patient’s symptoms and the treatment given |
| Informatics and Data Analytics | health informatics job family that studies electronic data to further medical research and education |
| Information Technology | Infrastructure health informatics job family that focuses on computer science |
| medical history | a patient’s diseases and surgeries, symptoms, results of examinations and tests, treatments, and other health services |
| Operations and Medical Record Administration | health informatics job family that focuses on complete and accurate patient medical records |
| personal identifying information | information used to connect a patient to the correct record |
| transcriptionist | a health information technician who types medical record information from a physician’s recorded dictation |