QUESTION: Why is it important for you to
understand medical terminology when working in the health
information technology environment?
ANSWER:
Medical Terminology:
- Generally medical terminology is use to allow the medical
profesionals in a health care organisation to understand each other
and communicate effectively.
- In a health care organisation medical terminology take a vital
role to your job performance wheather you spend every day at
medical clinic in patients side or never spend in medical clinic in
a single day.
- Medical terminology is use to understand what is being read,
billed,written,communicated during day to day job duties among the
people in clinical or non clinical position.
IMPORTANT OF MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY:
1. improve patient safety
- Knowing medical terminology also improve the patient safety in
health care organisation.
- By reducing the number of mistakes, the health care team
improves patient safety by good quality communication among all
members.
- If a physician knows the every details of a patient including
medical history of a patients, procedure conditions, then it helps
the physician to prescribe a good , safe and effective treatment
for the patient.
2. Better efficient care
- Medical terminology also used for more efficient care of the
patient in health care organisation.
- In health care organisation , the health care professionals
write quickly and scribble common abbrevaitions to provide more
efficient care.
- For provide best care the team in the health care organisations
should be able to understand these abbrevaitions.
3.Improve patient experience
- Medical terminology also help to increase the patient
experience.
- In a health care organisation when all members of the team
including physician and nurses, known about the medical terminology
then they use to help the patient education.
- patient education help patients become a more effective part of
their care team, leading to increase satisfication.
- In every health care organisation, medical terminology also
help you to avoid making coding or billing mistaks that a patient
may have to call to correct-a major patient dissatifier.
4.Use standardized Language of medicine
- Knowing Medical terminology able to break words down and
understand their prefixes,suffixes and roots to prevent any
misunderstandings.
- In health care organisation, Knowing medical terminology also
help medical professionals to to understand each other as well as
communicate effectively.
- After knowing the conditions,medicine or procedure , then
physician and nurses are able to fulfill their responsibilities
accordingly.
- Knowing medical terminology also help all emloyees to fully
understand staff training and communications no matter whether it
is infection control training or HIPAA compliance training.
- For both patients and employees these trainings are create a
safe environment.