ITHS Chapter 2 Flashcards
Career Skills in Health Informatics
What is the career pathway that involves methods, devices, and resources used to acquire, store, retrieve, and work with healthcare and biomedical information?
health informatics services
What is the act of assigning numbers to descriptions of a patients’ diseases, injuries, and treatments according to established codes?
medical coding
What are an individual’s unique combination of qualities and characteristics?
personal traits
What is the legally protected rights of patients to have their personal and medical information kept private?
confidentiality
What are the standards of appearance normally expected of a qualified person in a work environment?
professional look
Who assembles and organizes patient’s health information to create a medical record?
health information management (HIM)
Who are the people who work in the field of health information management?
health information technicians
What lists all diseases and surgeries, current symptoms, results of examinations and diagnostic tests, treatments, family history, and health services of a patient?
medical history
Who used to type medical record information from a physician’s recorded dictation?
medical transcriptionist
What is the verbal recording of describing a patient’s symptoms and treatment given?
dictation
What focuses on the systems used to manage health information and secure exchange of health info in a digital format?
health information technology (HIT)
Health Information Technology careers require what degree?
a bachelor’s degree
What is the new group of careers emerging at the intersection of health information management and health information technology?
health informatics (HI)
What is based on physician research and is of interest to medical students?
medical informations (bioinformatics)
What focuses on clinical research and attracts nursing students?
nursing informatics
What includes public health and bio-surveillance, and is of interest to public health students?
public health informatics
What is the tracking of disease patterns and threats to the health of humans, animals, and plants?
bio-surveillance
What examines medical information moves in an electronic environment and studies processes, policies, and technological solutions, and attracts health information management students?
applied informatics
What is the practical work/training experience that allows students to apply what they have learned in class?
internship
What is the medical practice concerning the feet?
podiatry
What is the medical practice concerned with the eyes?
ophthalmology
Who are the group of professionals form different health science training backgrounds working in coordination toward a common goal for the patient?
Interdisciplinary healthcare team
What is the ability to perform tasks in a specific healthcare discipline/department?
technical skills
What are the skills related to choosing a career, acquiring and keeping a job, changing jobs, and advancing in a career?
employability skills
What are the tools used to find careers that match individual needs?
career assessments
What are the written records of career planning and preparation?
career portfolios
