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MOD 2 Dental Records
Matching 1 MOD 2 Dental Records
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Patient Health History | The information is protected by HIPPA laws. |
| Red Stickers | With notations like aids and Hep A on the outside of the paients chart is not acceptable. |
| Dental Assistants | Should be aware of the laws reguarding their duties for the state in which they practice. |
| HIPPA Primary Purpose | To protect patient confidentiality and to assure that patients know what is done with health information. |
| Place of Employment | It is costomary for dental proffessionals to ask a patient for thi, it is necessary for insurance billng. |
| Dental Records | These are property of the DDS. |
| Faxing Records | Must get permission or consent from the patient before records can be sent to a referring specialist. |
| Correction of Errors | You must in ink draw one single line through the error in the chart and rewrite the correction next to the error and initial it. |
| Paperless | New software systems available to dental offices in which there is no hard file of dental charts. |
| Health History | Must be updated at every visit. |
| Legal Documents | This is what patient records are, and must be kept in a physically secured area. |
| Notice of Privacy Practices | To maintain accordance with HIPPA, every patient is to sign an acknowledgement that they received it. |
| Minimum Information | Name, date of birth, address, emergency contact phone #, employment and attitude toward dentistry, including expectation of care. |
| 7 Years | State law mandates that dental records be kept for at least this long. |
| Chronological | Forms in the patients record are placed with the most recent information on top. |
| Blue or black ink | The acceptable writing instrument for documenting in a patients dental record. |