What is the term for care given to patients with serious illnesses at any stage of those illnesses?
Palliative
Which of the following requires special attention for combatting health care fraud and abuse?
Reimbursement
What would be a nontraditional setting for a health information professional?
Pharmaceutical Companies
Consulting
What actions are taken in quality assurance?
Establish Promote Protect
Which of the following is not an aspect of an individual’s health record provided by the electronic health record (EHR)?
Timeliness
In what year did the American Medical Record Association change its name to American Health Information Management Association?
1991
True or False: Independent thinkers need a quiet workspace.
True
Global thinkers need to ____.
create simple basic routines for doing work tasks
True or False: We tend to remember 50% of what we read for learning retention.
False
True or False: The first step in a problem-solving process is to gather information.
False
True or False: Scope of practice refers to the tasks that a health care professional can legally perform as part of a specific occupation.
True
True or False: Health care abuse is the intentional deception or misrepresentation resulting in payment.
False
A health care standard in ethics stating one should treat all patients with the same level of care and consideration regardless and without bias?
Uphold justice
True or False: The privacy rule of HIPAA establishes standards for the use and disclosure of individuals' protected health information (PHI) by covered entities.
True
HIPAA was implemented as a law in ____.
2003
This violation include billing for unnecessary medical services, charging excessively for services, and misusing codes on a claim form.
Abuse
True or False: Personal values must sometimes be put aside if they conflict with facility policies regarding patient care.
True
Every health care professional is likely to face occasional ethical dilemmas, which are _____.
situations in which there are no clear answers
True or False: Patient confidentiality can be broken, if necessary, to report suspected abuse.
True
When a patient gives permission to perform a procedure that the physician has explained to them, this is known as _____.
Informed Consent
The guiding principle of health care ethics “do good” means _____.
treat every patient with respect
An example of implied consent?
Patient makes an appointment and arrives at the imaging center for an X-ray.
The best action for health care professionals to take if they believe that their facility has a policy that is not in the best interest of the patients?
Talk with their supervisor privately about their concerns.
Which schedule of controlled substances currently has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States?
Schedule I