Sue has just accepted a position at the National Library of Medicine to retrieve and process electronic biomedical information for health care universities. Her supervisor informs her that she will be receiving coding training for
A) CPT.
B) CMIT.
C) DSM-III.
D) UMLS.

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The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is the correct answer because it is a set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems. Since Sue's job involves retrieving and processing electronic biomedical information for healthcare universities, knowledge of UMLS would be essential for her role. CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) is used for billing and coding medical procedures, CMIT is not a recognized standard in biomedical information processing, and DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition) is a manual for psychiatric diagnoses, not directly related to Sue's job of processing electronic biomedical information.

Sue Has Just Accepted a Position at the National Library