Category: M

A1995 HCFA demonstration project for providing care to Medicare beneficiaries in new and innovative ways. The project involves a selected group of HMOs, PPOs, POS options, integrated delivery systems, and primary care case management systems in various parts of the U.S. The goals are to provide Medicare beneficiaries with more delivery system choices and to…

The annual authority list for the subject analysis of the biomedical literature in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The list is divided into two sections, an alphabetical list of the subjects along with their reference code numbers (MeSH numbers), and a “tabular list,” called a “tree structure,” in which the subjects are categorized and…

A person who carries out certain technical duties with respect to medical records. The MRTs formal training is somewhat less than for the medical record administrator (MRA). An allied health professional for whom the American Medical Association’s Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation (CAHEA) has accredited education programs. A technician who assists the medical…

The allied health profession dealing with medical records. Medical record science concerns record content, medical terminology, medical classification (process), medical record administration, medicolegal aspects, information retrieval, and the like.  

A general term covering professionals with credentials such as medical record administrator (MRA), medical record technician (MRT), registered record administrator (RRA), accredited record technician (ART), and the like.  

Something written in the medical record. Certain members of the health care team, such as physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, etc., are permitted by the hospital to write in the medical record. Each person doing so follows a certain protocol, which includes dating the written information and authenticating (signing) it (see authenticate). Customarily, a…

The individual in a long-term care facility (LTCF) assigned the responsibility of maintaining medical records on all patients. Note that this term applies to the duty, not to the qualifications, of the individual.  

A person who extracts a specific predetermined array of information from a medical record, usually on a pre-coded form to be used as input into a hospital discharge abstract system.  

In a medical school setting, an official document setting forth the policies under which patient services are rendered by medical school faculty physicians, the method of obtaining reimbursement, and the disposition of the funds obtained for such services. The detail of procedures is usually covered in the document.  

A proprietary system for carrying out occurrence screening; a method for detecting cases in which there was a possible quality problem. Its author is Joyce W. Craddick, MD, president of Medical Management Analysis Consulting and Education Services, Inc., of Auburn, California.