Medical Business Operations

Question 0

Controlled substance schedule 1

Answer 0

high abuse potential, not used for medical treatment. No safety standards. Heroin, LSD, marijuana.

Question 1

Primary care physician

Answer 1

Doc with ongoing relationship with patient, provides primary care.

Question 2

Controlled substance schedule 2

Answer 2

High abuse potential, may lead to severe dependencies. Morphine, opium, oxycodone, cocaine.

Question 3

Controlled substance schedule 3

Answer 3

Less abuse potential. High psychological, medium physical dependencies. Anabolic steroids, low dose of codeine.

Question 4

Controlled substance schedule 4

Answer 4

Low abuse potential. Propoxyphene, diazepam.

Question 5

Controlled substance schedule 5

Answer 5

Low abuse potential. Cough meds.

Question 6

Code blue

Answer 6

Patient is in critical condition and requires immediate help.

Question 7

Rapid response.

Answer 7

When a patient is about to go into code blue.

Question 8

Ultrasound

Answer 8

Imaging process that uses sound waves to create image of soft tissue.

Question 9

MRI

Answer 9

Magnetic resonance imaging. Magnetic and radio fields to create image of body.

Question 10

PET scan

Answer 10

Uses radioactive tracer, shows 3D image when combined with cat scan.

Question 11

Glucose monitor

Answer 11

Measures amount of glucose in blood sample.

Question 12

EEG

Answer 12

Electroencephalogram. Measures frequency of brainwaves.

Question 13

EKG or ECG.

Answer 13

Electrocardiogram. Measures electrical activity of heart.

Question 14

Vascular stress test

Answer 14

Physical test using EKG that determines capacity of veins to return blood to the heart.

Question 15

Scheduling software

Answer 15

Services that book rooms, procedures and personnel.

Question 16

Patient tracking software.

Answer 16

Records patient flow and medical status. RFID can be used to track location.

Question 17

Order entry software

Answer 17

Creation, duplication, safety of orders given by providers. Helps automate and alert staff of conflicts of orders.

Question 18

National drug code identifier.

Answer 18

Code assigned pro each drug by the FDA to maintain a list of drugs being produced.

Question 19

Practice management software

Answer 19

Used in small or medium offices, often links with EHR. Included both clinical and business needs.

Question 20

Current procedure terminology

Answer 20

Codes maintained by AMA to represent procedures or treatment.

Question 21

Super bill

Answer 21

Itemized form used by providers to show services rendered. Primary source for creating claim submitted to insurance.

Question 22

Dicom

Answer 22

Digital imaging and communication in medicine. Digital image format.

Question 23

OCR

Answer 23

Optical character recognition. Takes image of letters into text to be searchable.

Question 24

Change control process (4 steps)

Answer 24

Development- test environment to create the change
QA/test- make sure change is functioning in test environment.
User test- using copy real data, to double check for errors.
Production- dial real use.

Question 25

Continuity of care doc

Answer 25

Version of patients record for transmitting data, ready by human and info system.

Question 26

HL7 message

Answer 26

Standard Message format of medical data to ensure that all devices and systems can read data.

Question 27

Thread

Answer 27

Interface pipeline that connects two info systems.

Question 28

Common fail points in info system

Answer 28

Patient or orders not formatted properly
Network or connection failure of devices to info system
Not having proper authorization (prescriptions)