MO 250 Medical Records Management: Electronic Health Records

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MO 250 Medical Records Management Electronic
Health Records

• Unit 9 Seminar

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Introduction

• This unit enabled you to gain hands-on experience
  with Practice Partner. You should have an
  understanding of how to enter, locate, and review
  information in an EHR program. With that being
  said, lets discuss the actual answers to all
  exercises throughout Chapter 7.

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Thinking About The Issues

• Based on your experience with Practice Partner,
  what do you see as the major advantages of
  electronic health records?

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Thinking About The Issues

• Would you be more interested in working for a
  physicians office that used an EHR, or would you
  prefer an office still using paper records?
  Explain your answer.

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Check Your Understanding

• Select whether the answer (s) are True or False.
• 1. the toolbar provides quick access to commonly
  used features of Practice Partner.

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Check Your Understanding

• 2. The Orders folder in the patient chart is used
  to order a new medication for a patient.

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Check Your Understanding

• 3. In addition to a sign-on password, an
  additional password may be required for a user to
  access certain areas of the program.

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Check Your Understanding

• 4. Patient registration information is located in
  a patients chart in Practice Partner.

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Check Your Understanding

• 5. The patient chart in Practice Partner contains
  folders that resemble paper folders in a
  paper-based recordkeeping system.

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Check Your Understanding

• 6. A speech recognition program creates a word
  processing file out of a providers spoken words.

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Check Your Understanding

• 7. Evaluation and management coding (E/M) is used
  to indicate the patients diagnosis to a
  patients insurance plan.

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Check Your Understanding

• 8. Physicians notes in regard to a patients
  hospitalization are stored in the patient chart.

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Check Your Understanding

• 9. Orders entered electronically can be assigned
  a priority status including STAT, routine, or do
  within a specified number of days.

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Check Your Understanding

• 10. Practice Partner takes into account a
  patients age and gender when determining health
  maintenance schedules for patients.

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Reference

• Sanderson, S.M. (2009). Electronic health records
  for allied health careers. New York, NY Mc-Graw
  Hill.