HCS 120 Week 5 Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Reporting, Compliance, and Reform

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HCS 120 Week 5 Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Reporting, Compliance, and Reform
HCS 120 Week 5 Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Reporting, Compliance, and Reform
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HCS 120 Week 5 Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Reporting, Compliance, and Reform

Complete the Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Reporting, Compliance, and Reform.

Weekly Vocabulary Exercise: Health Care Reporting, Compliance, and Reform

 

Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines:

 

  • In the space provided, write each term’s definition as used in health care. You must define the term in your own words; do not simply copy the definition from a textbook.
  • In the space provided after each term’s definition, provide an explanation that illustrates the importance of the skill, concept, procedure, organization, or tool to which the term refers. In your explanation, you may wish to consider the following:

 

  • How has it influenced health care?
  • Why is it important to understand the appropriate application of the term or concept?

Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name.

Submit the file to your facilitator.

Note. You must define 25 terms involved in health care reporting, compliance, and reform in this worksheet. Therefore, in addition to the terms already provided for you below, finish the additional spaces on the worksheet with terms from your reading or discussion you were not previously familiar with and had to research.

 

Submitted by: [Type your name here.]

 

TermDefinition in your own wordsUse the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry.
Autopsy rate
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mortality rate
Institute of Medicine
Occupancy rate
Service lines
Daily census
Epidemiology
Compliance
Compliance officer
Addendum
Audit trail
Protected health information
Release of information
HIPAA
Affordable Care Act
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
HITECH Act
Preexisting medical condition
Legislation

 

As you progress through your program, you are encouraged to continue to use your weekly vocabulary exercises to build a master glossary as a quick reference guide to use in your coursework and in your health care career.