Chapter 1 Key Terms Flashcards
Certification
Evidence that an individual has mastered fundamental competencies in a particular technical area completion of defined academic/ training requirement/ attained satisfactory score on examination
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ‘88)
Public law mandates that all laboratories must be regulated using the standards regardless of the location, type, or size
Communication barriers
Biases or personalized filters that are major obstructions to verbal communications
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
Codes that were originally developed in the 1960s by the American Medical Association to provide a terminology and coding system for physician billing.
Exanguinate
To remove all blood, totally bleed out
Gatekeeper
Primary physician who serves as the patients advocate and advises the patients on healthcare needs
Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
1996 federal law passed requiring all healthcare providers to obtain a patients consent in writing before disclosing medical information such as a person patients test results, treatment, or condition to any unauthorized person
Kinesic Slip
When the verbal and nonverbal messages do not match
Medicaid
A federal and state program that provides medical assistance for low-income Americans
Medicare
Federally funded program that provides healthcare to people over the age of 65 and the disabled
Phlebotomy
The process of bloodletting
Polycythemia
A disorder involving overproduction of blood cells
Primary Care
Care by general physician who assumes ongoing responsibility for maintaining patients health
Proxemics
The study of an individuals concept and use of space
Kinesics
The study of nonverbal communications
