The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office
For Simchart for the Medical Office
- 3rd Edition - September 4, 2019
- Author: Julie Pepper
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 4 2 6 5 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 7 4 7 6 - 8
Gain real-world practice with an EHR and realistic, hands-on experience performing EHR tasks! With everything needed to learn the foundations of the EHR process, The Elect… Read more
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Gain real-world practice with an EHR and realistic, hands-on experience performing EHR tasks! With everything needed to learn the foundations of the EHR process, The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office, 3rd Edition, helps you master all the administrative, clinical, and billing/coding skills needed to gain certification — and succeed as a medical office professional. Fully integrated with SimChart for the Medical Office, Elsevier’s educational EHR, it walks you through the basics, including implementation, troubleshooting, HIPAA compliance, and claims submissions. This edition contains new and expanded content on patient portals, telehealth, insurance and reimbursement, and data management and analytics, as well as more EHR activities for even more practice.
- UNIQUE! Integration with SimChart for the Medical Office, Elsevier’s educational EHR (sold separately)
- Content and tools prepare you for Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist (CEHRS) certification
- Chapter review activities promote didactic knowledge review and assessment
- Critical thinking exercises threaded within chapters provide thought-provoking questions to enhance learning and stimulate discussion
- EHR exercises with step-by-step instructions are integrated throughout each chapter and build in difficulty to allow for software application
- Trends and Applications boxes help you stay up to date on the industry and the ways in which an EHR can contribute to enhanced health care
- Coverage of paper-based office procedures to aid in transition to EHR
- Application appendices with additional forms allow you to practice applying text content before tackling graded SCMO exercises
- Instructor online resources, including a test bank, TEACH lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations, correlation guides for accreditation and certification, and grading rubrics
- Student online resources with a custom test generator allow for CEHRS exam practice or simulation
1. Introduction to Electronic Health Records
2. Overview of SimChart for the Medical Office
3. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
4. Administrative Use of the Electronic Health Record
5. Clinical Use of the Electronic Health Record
6. Using the Electronic Health Record for Reimbursement
7. The Personal Health Record and Patient Portals
Appendix
A: Review of Paper-Based Office Documents
B: CMS Documentation Guidelines
C: Front Office, Clinical Care, and Coding and Billing Application Exercises
D: SimChart Supplement
2. Overview of SimChart for the Medical Office
3. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
4. Administrative Use of the Electronic Health Record
5. Clinical Use of the Electronic Health Record
6. Using the Electronic Health Record for Reimbursement
7. The Personal Health Record and Patient Portals
Appendix
A: Review of Paper-Based Office Documents
B: CMS Documentation Guidelines
C: Front Office, Clinical Care, and Coding and Billing Application Exercises
D: SimChart Supplement
- Edition: 3
- Published: September 4, 2019
- Language: English
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Julie Pepper
Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college’s Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, and Today’s Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Medical Assistant Program, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA