Residences that provide help with the activities of daily living (ADLs) and that emphasize residents’ privacy and choice. Residents typically have private locking rooms (only shared by choice) and bathrooms. Personal care services are available on a 24-hour-a-day basis, licensed as residential care facilities or as rest homes. The size of an ALC may range from 3 to 15 residents to as large as 600 to 800 residents. Also called assisted living facility (ALF), adult foster care, domiciliary care, or residential care.

Changes in normal bodily function or any indication of disease perceived by the patient that are documented in detail in the patient’s medical record. These details are used to assist in establishing a diagnosis.

1. Group of individuals who unite together for business purposes. 2. In psychology, the connection of remembered feelings, emotions, sensations, thoughts, or perceptions with certain persons, ideas, or situations.

Organization that promotes efficient, secure, and cost effective health information data exchanges in an open electronic environment using industry standards. Web site: www.afehct.org .

Organization established in 1978 as part of an effort to achieve recognition for the medical transcription profession; formerly known as American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT). Vision: To direct the evolution of the medical transcription profession. Mission: To advance and represent the profession of medical transcription through the promotion of quality health care documentation. Purpose: To set and uphold standards for education and practice in the field of medical transcription that ensure the highest level of accuracy, privacy, and security of health care documentation for the U.S. health care system to protect public health, increase patient safety, and improve quality of care for health care consumers. Goals and Objectives: Medical transcriptionists are provided the tools to ensure accuracy, privacy, and security of health care documentation to improve patient safety and quality of care through the following objectives: Participate in the development of health care documentation standards to protect consumer privacy and security of medical information; advocate for legislation and regulations that protect the public’s health care information; set standards of education and practice for the medical transcription profession.

Nationwide community of members that support medical providers practicing in the United States and advance their knowledge of important socioeconomic issues through continuing education, exchange of ideas between members, and certification programs that recognize personal educational achievements.

Values relating to future trends in certain key factors that affect the balance in the trust funds. Demographic assumptions include fertility, mortality, net immigration, marriage, divorce, retirement patterns, disability incidence and termination rates, and changes in the labor force. Economic assumptions include unemployment, average earnings, inflation, interest rates, and productivity. Also called demographic assumptions.

Word that means “insurance” that is commonly used in Canada and Great Britain.

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Synonym for Insurance. Used commonly for the life business and in the traditional form of marine policy. Charles Babbage in 1826 suggested that assurance was a contract on the duration of life which must either happen or fail and insurance is a contract relating to any other uncertain event which may partly happen or partly fail but the distinction has never been universally accepted.

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UK: a term commonly used to distinguish insurance business providing benefits related to the duration of human life from other types of insurance (but for practical purposes the terms assurance and insurance are interchangeable).

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UK: Means an insured event that is certain to happen, e.g. in an endowment policy, the life assured will either survive the policy term or die within it. In contrast insurance is taken to mean events, e.g. road accidents that may or may not happen to the individual. The terms have often been used interchangeably although insurance is now the main term.