National organization dedicated to promoting professionalism in physician office practice by providing professional development opportunities, continuing education in health care office management principles and practice, and certification for health care office managers.
A project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 700 health topics.
The mission of AHRQ is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The AHRQ Web site provides information on a variety of health topics focusing on specific populations and types of health care services.
For the health care professional, it is imperative that precision is used in the way patients’ physical conditions and diseases are described. Modern medical terms and terminology provides such precision and specificity.
Medical terminology is the language of healthcare. It’s the means for healthcare professionals to confer on the intricacies of the human body, both in states of health and states of injury or disease. Word parts — like mini bricks — make up most medical terms. Once you start to learn the word parts, you no longer see an unknowable 21-letter word.
