2. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTCARE
KNOWLEDGE
When it comes to clinical and healthcare management terminology
one must be aware of the following key learnings:
• Terminology and Language
•Taxonomies
•Clinical vocabularies
•Nomenclature
4. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND
LANGUAGE
Medical terminology is a reliable
foundation that connects the
findings of medicine and history
across time and space.
When communicating with
patients the healthcare
professionals should use simple
language when communicating
with patients so they can
understand what is being
communicated to them.
5. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND
LANGUAGE
Medical terminology is a reliable foundation that connects the
findings of medicine and history across time and space.
When communicating with patients the healthcare professionals
should use simple language when communicating with patients so
they can understand what is being communicated to them.
6. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND
LANGUAGE
For every procedure, disease,
disorder there is unique medical
terminology that has been
assigned to it.
Medical terminologies keeps
changing when there is a
development in the medicine
field and therefore must be
upgraded by health
professionals.
7. TAXONOMIES
Taxonomy is the branch of science that deals with the classification
or categorization in which medical things are classified into groups.
Taxonomy recognizes and itemizes the mechanisms of biological
diversity providing basic knowledge supporting management and
implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Taxonomists are natural scientist who examine the connection among
entities and aggregate them into groups.
8. TAXONOMIES
▪American Society for Clinical
Laboratory Science
▪CMIT- Current Medical
information and terminology
▪UMLS- Unified Medical language
system
▪ICD-10-CM-International
Classification of Diseases-
Clinical Modification
9. TAXONOMIES
Taxonomy includes seven different types of procedures: description,
naming, recognition, comparison, and classification of taxa, genetic
variation, identifying specimens, and defining taxa in the
environment.
Systematics is the contemplation to recognize the taxonomy of
organisms and their nomenclature, classification based on their
natural relatedness, and the analysis of variation and evolution
among the taxa.
Editor's Notes
As one starts his career in the healthcare field, its is very necessary that he must be aware of the key learnings which comprises of Terminology, Taxonomies, clinical vocabulary and nomenclature. These key learnings assist in understanding the different terms pertaining to healthcare.
Medical terminology is the language used to describe the process and components human body, procedures, disease and disorders. There numerous terminologies that are being used by the doctors, paramedics and healthcare professionals to describe the body situation of a person.
Medical terminology is a reliable foundation that connects the findings of medicine and history across time and space.
When communicating with patients the healthcare professionals should use simple language when communicating with patients so they can understand what is being communicated to them. Medical terminology has a universal status in the medicine world and every healthcare professional must be fully aware of these terminologies when communicating with others.
Every body disease, disorder or procedure has been assigned a unique term that gives it a special meaning. Medical terminologies keeps changing when there is a development in the medicine field and therefore must be upgraded by health professionals.
Taxonomy is the branch of science that deals with the classification or categorization in which medical things are classified into groups.
Taxonomy recognizes and itemizes the mechanisms of biological diversity providing basic knowledge supporting management and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
