Medical Assisting

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Accreditation

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process that a health care institution, provider, or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance with standards developed by an official agency

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AdministrativeMedical Assistant

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a person who, under the direction of a qualified physician, performs a variety of routine administrative and clinical tasks in a physician's office, a hospital, or some other clinical facility.

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American Association of Medical Assistants

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A professional organization comprising over 350 chapters nationally. The group awards a certificate verifying that the holder has met the standards of knowledge for the discipline and maintains them on a regular basis.

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American Medical Technologist

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A lab worker in the US who has received at least 4 years of formal college or university education training in various techniques in clinical pathology, hematology, microbiology, chemistry, blood banking, immunology, and other areas of the lab.

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Assertive

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Inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively self-assured.

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Hospice

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care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs.

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Multi skilledHealth Practitioner

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a person who is cross trained to provide more than one function, often in more than one discipline

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Professionalism

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the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person

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Caduceus

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the symbolic staff of a herald; specifically : a representation of a staff with two entwined snakes and two wings at the top

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capitation

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a fixed per capital payment made periodically to a medical service provider (as a physician) by a managed care group (as an HMO) in return for medical care provided to enrolled individuals

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HealthMaintenance Organization

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a relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living.

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Point of Service Plan

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is a type of managed care health insurance plan in the United States. It combines characteristics of the health maintenance organization (HMO) and the preferred provider organization (POP).

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Primary Care Physician

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who usually is the first health professional to examine a patient and who recommends secondary care physicians, medical or surgical specialists with expertise in the patient's specific health problem, if further treatment is needed.

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Solo Physician Practice

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Medical practice by a single physician–a solo practitioner, usually understood to mean nonspecialist. See Private practice; Cf Group practice.

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urgent care centers

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Urgent care centers primarily treat injuries or illnesses requiring immediate care, but not serious enough to require an ER visit.

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Utilization Review

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A process for monitoring the use and delivery of services, especially one used by a managed care provider to control health care costs.