Question

• Discuss the importance of understanding medical terminology for medical administrators.
• Identify medical terminology practice applications utilized in various healthcare settings.
• Identify how medical terms are used in Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
• Describe your process for building your medical terminology vocabulary throughout your career.

Answer 1

Medical Terminology is important in the healthcare industry. It is a Universal language used to describe the human body, medical condition, and medical processes across the world. It is important for medical administrators to understand the basic terms and to help the healthcare team. It avoids the confusion and the wrong diagnosing of the patient condition and wrong messing of patient records. It helps the medical administrators to do their job more accurately in a timely manner. They have to work for the hospitals, clinics and to come across a lot of medical terms in their daily task. Medical terminology is necessary to gather information of patient health record and for proper communication.

Medical Terminology applications are utilized in various healthcare settings such as in billing section, they used ICD-10 and CPT procedural code. Interoperability system used different standards of clinical terminology. SNOMED-CT is used to record the patient's clinical data. HL7 is a clinical terminology used in the interoperability standards. LONIC is the laboratory terminology used in the clinical observations. RxNORM, Micromedex is the pharmacological terminology used in the healthcare settings.

In EHR, Medical Terminologies are structured in a way to describe the conditions of the patient. Medical terminologies are used to report and share patient data at various levels. A Nomenclature is a system used in the practice. Standardized Clinical terminologies facilitate the data collection of the electronic health record. If the clinicians record the data in an ordinary language which can be transmitted into Standardized terms automatically in the electronic record system. It is a technology needed to integrate patient health information. Commonly, SNOMED-CT is used to computerize the medical records.

Medical terminologies consist of prefix, suffix, and Roots. The roots are mainly derived from Latin word which describes the anatomical structure, and Greek word describes the disease condition. The suffix is the last part of the word that describe the disease condition, processes and procedure and prefix is the first part of the word. I always use to decode the word and try to pronounce the word appropriately. I will learn a new medical term every day which increases and updated my medical knowledge. It helps me in dealing with the patient in the life-threatening situation and minimizes the error. It saves my time and energy and fulfills my career.