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| • Document that includes the length of the meeting, topics to be covered, their order of discussion, and the person responsible for each. |
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| Breach of Confidentiality |
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| Break in a right to privacy of personal information |
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| Maintaining the atmosphere and physical environment of an office. |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) |
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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 providers and insurance carriers. |
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| Documentation of physical assets using information that includes item description, 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 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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| Small, portable computer. (the size of a notebook). |
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| Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) |
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| Pocket-sized computer 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 the medical office and provides general information that affects all employees. |
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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. (eg: office cleaning, office supplies) |
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| Card accompanying a purchased item that provides protection for the buyer against defective parts for a certain amount of time. |
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| Input device that includes letter and number keys and computer task keys |
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| Circuit found on the main board that controls and coordinates many functions of the computer. (speed of processing). |
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| Device that transfers 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 ships, power supply, and vital components for processing data in the computer. |
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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; designed to secure and protect unauthorized entry to a computer. |
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| Computers interconnected to exchange information. |
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| Printer that uses heat to fuse a fine dark powder (toner) onto paper to create graphics and text. |
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