Exam 1: An Introduction to Medical Informatics: Administrative Uses of Computers in the Medical Office

Medical offices must use ________ billing to accommodate two or three insurers, who must be billed in a timely fashion before the patient is billed.

________ was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1996. Its goal was to make health insurance portable from one job to another and to secure the privacy of medical records.

The emphasis in ________ is on the use of technology to organize information in health care.

________ refers to the use of computers to organize information in health care.

________ (HITECH) which is a part of the ARRA encourages the "Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records," with 19 billion dollars in incentives through Medicare and Medicaid for doctors and hospitals to adopt them.

________ has the task of overseeing the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs, setting standards, and judging the impact.

________ manages radiological images in digital form in hospitals.

One of the obstacles in the way of introducing the EHR is ________.

________ analytics help in finding hidden trends.

Charges, payments, and adjustments are called ________.

________ uses computers to solve biological problems.

Billing is based on diagnosis; the relevant code is called the ________.

Which of the following are obstacles in the way of adopting electronic records?

________ information systems use computers to manage both laboratory tests and their results.

The first information systems introduced into hospitals (in the 1960s) were used for ________ purposes (managing finances and inventory).

List three administrative uses of computers: ________.

A ________ information system is concerned with the financial details of running a hospital.

________ is the use of computers and software to enter prescriptions and send them to pharmacies electronically.

________ software allows the user to enter, organize, and store huge amounts of data and information.

The ________ was signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Obama; it included billions of dollars for the expansion of health information technology. Through Medicare and Medicaid, monetary incentives would be offered to doctors and hospitals to adopt EHRs.