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| Document that includes the length of the meeting, topics to be covered, their order of discusion, and the person responsible for each. |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
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| Federal act that provides equal accessibility to services by disabled persons. |
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| Out-of-pocket items that will be shipped at a later date by a supplier. |
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| Breach of Confidentiality |
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| Break in a right to privacy of personal information. |
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| Goods that are durable and are expected to last a few years; often expensive. |
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| Expendable or consumable supplies that are used and then discarded. |
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| Maintaining the atmosphere and physical environment of an office. |
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| Office equipment that scans a document, translates the information to electronic impulses, and transmits an exact copy of the original document from one location to another using a telephone line. |
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| Health Insurance Porability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) |
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| Federal act of 1996 that mandates patient rights in health care and provides guidelines for maintaining confidentiality of patient information by health care croviders and insurance carriers. |
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| Documentation of physical assets using finormation that includes item descrption, date of purchase, price, and where purchased, as well as equipment serial numbers and service agreements. |
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| Form prepared by the vendor describing the products sold (by item number and quantity) and the price; used for paying vendor for purchased supplies and equipment. |
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| Travel document that describes the overall trip and indicates what is scheduled to happen each day. |
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| Time it takes to receie an order that has been placed. |
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| Equipment that is reusable bu less expensive and less durable than capital equipment. |
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| Small, portable computer. |
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| Optimal quantity of a suply to be ordered at one time. |
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| Document received with an order that lists the items ordered and itemizes those sent a those to arrive at a later date. |
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| Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) |
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| Pocket-sized computer used for appointments, phone numbers, notes, and other information. |
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| Manual that explains the policies used in the day-to-day operations of th medical office and provides general information that affects all employees. |
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| Regular servicing to prevent the breakdown of equipment. |
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| Manual containing specific instructions on how procedures are to be performed |
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| Document used to order supplies; contains the name, address, and telephone number of a vendor and the quantity, price, and description of a supply to be available. |
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| Minimum quantity of a supply to be available before a new order is placed. |
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| Items kept on hand to avoid running out of supplies until a reorder is obtained. (backup supply) |
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| Entity that sells supplies, equipment, and services (office cleaning, off supplies) |
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| Cqard accompanying a purchased item that provides protection for the buyer against defective parts for a certain amount of time. |
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| ADA requires the entrance door to be ____ inches wide? |
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| ADA requires ramps to be longer than ____ feet? |
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| ADA requires how many railings? |
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| ADA requires the railing to be ____ to ____ inches high? |
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| ADA requires the width of the ramp to be not less than _____ inches> |
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| According to the ADA what must be available to all public areas? |
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| ADA requires all inside doors must be ____ inches wide and the door handles no highter than _____ inches? |
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| ADA requires that restrooms doors be ____ inches wide? |
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| ADA requires stall ____ feet by ____ feet? |
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| What are some things to check before faxing patient medical information? |
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1. fax number is correct
2. fax machine in a secure area
3. What person to fax to and that they are waiting for it. |
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| What important factors need to be considered for telephone equipment? |
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Ease of expansion
Ease of use for the staff
Dedicated telephone lines
Call forwarding
Conference calling
Privaccy button
Repeat call
Caller ID
Speaker phone
Headset |
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| What is an answering service? |
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| A business entity that handles patient calls during hours the medical practis is closed. |
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| What are the five steps in planning for a meeting? |
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1. Secure meeting room
2. Prepare and distribute and agenda to meeting participants
3. Assemble materials needed
4. Reminder phone call or e-mail notice 5 days before meeting.
5. Check the meeting room |
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| Copying data from a computer's hard drive to another storage device, such as a floppy disk, CD, or "thumb drive" to protec against losing all data if the system fails or crashes. |
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| The smallest unit of data and is an abbreviation for binary digit. |
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| Term used to indicate that a computer system has been ativated and is ready for use. |
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| Program for surfing the internet |
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| A string of bits used to represent a character, digit, or symbol. |
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| Secondary storage device for computer data; holds more data than a floppy disk |
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| Central processing unit (CPU) |
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| The brain of the computer |
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| Starting the computer when it has been in "off" mode. |
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| Flashing line on the computer screen that indicates where the characters typed will appear. |
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| Productivity software that allows the computer user to work with facts and figures. |
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| Selection or option automatically chosen by most computer programs if not directed by the user to do otherwise |
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| Supervill, charge ticket; office form attqached to a patient's record where the physician records the diagnosis and the procedures and services performed, for posting charges. |
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| A porable data storage device |
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| Secondary storage device for computer data. |
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| Character style of typeface on a document |
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| Person who is responsible for paying the costs of a patient's treatment. |
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| Main device in the computer used to store a retrieve information |
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| Mechanical devices and physical components of a computer system |
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| Computer that is the main computer in a system of connected terminals |
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| Printer that produces characters and graphics by imprinting ink onto paper |
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| Connection between the user and the computer |
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| Internet service provider (ISP) |
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| Company that provides a host access to the internet |
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| Input device that includes letter and number keys and computer task keys |
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| Printer that uses heat to fuse a fine dark powder onto paper to create graphics and text |
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| List of commands or options, typically found on the top of the computer creen, which can be selected by the user. |
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| Circuit found on the main board that controls and coordinates many functions of the computer |
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| device that trasfers data from one computer to another over telephone or cable lines. |
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| Display device that converts electrical signals from the computer into points of light that form an image |
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| Circuit board that contains memory chips, power supply and vital components for processing data in the computer |
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| Pointing device that directs activity on the computer screen |
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| Computers interconnected to exchange information. |
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| Optical character recognition (OCR) |
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| Computer system that scans and reads typewritten characters and converts them to digitized files. |
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| Special set of characters known only to the user and the person who assigned the password; disigned to secure and protect unauthorized entry to a computer. |
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| Person who receives medical treatment, not necessarily the quarantor. |
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| External components attached to the computer such as the speakers. |
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| Size of typeface; number of charaters per inch. |
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| Sum total of managing all the facets of running a medical practice. |
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| Message displayed by the computer to request information or to help the user proceed. |
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| Stored data that can be read but not changed. |
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| Device that converts texts or graphics on paper into an electrical format that a computer can display, print, and store. |
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| Specialized program desgned to find specific information on the internet |
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| Intelligence of a computer; tells the computer what to do; computer program |
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| Random-access memory (RAM) |
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| Read and write memory that the CPU uses for storage. |
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