Chapter 2: Health Information Management Professionals
Feipei Lai
National Taiwan University
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Careers
Cancer Registrars
Collect cancer data from a variety of sources and report cancer statistics to government and health care agencies.
Coding and Reimbursement Specialists
Health Information Managers
Health Insurance Specialists
Health Service Managers
Medical Assistants
Medical Transcriptionists
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Cancer Registrars
Training
Medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, health information management, computer information systems, health data collection, epidemiology, cancer registry management and cancer case abstracting, coding and staging.
Credentials
Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR)
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Staging
the grouping of cases into broad categories based on extent of disease.
Extent of disease is a detailed description of how far the tumor has spread from organ or site of origin (the primary site). Extent of disease is an anatomic categorization using descriptors to group individual cases in relation to the human body.
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Coding and Reimbursement Specialists
Requires a working knowledge of
CPT (Current Procedural Terminology)
and ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification) coding principles,
governmental regulations,
and third-party payer requirement to ensure that all diagnoses, services and procedures documented in patient records are coded accurately for reimbursement, research and statistical purposes.
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Coding and Reimbursement Specialists
Coding is the assignment of numbers to diagnoses, services, and procedures, based on patient record documentation.
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Coding and Reimbursement Specialists
Training programs
Medical terminology
Anatomy
Physiology
Health information management
Pathophysiology 病理生理学

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