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MHA 705 module 1. PPT TEST
meaningful use - CORRECT ANSWER the use of certified electronic health record technology to achieve health and efficiency goals, with a financial incentive from Medicare and Medicaid
HITECH - CORRECT ANSWER Health Information Technology for Economic
and Clinical Health Act
IOM - CORRECT ANSWER Institute of Medicine
EHR - CORRECT ANSWER Electronic Health Record: An integration of all
medical documentation into electronic format, Interoperable
EMR - CORRECT ANSWER electronic medical record. Not interoperable
HL7 - CORRECT ANSWER Health Level 7; standards development
organization accredited by the American National Standards Institute that addresses issues at the 7th, or application, level of healthcare system interconnections
Rapid Prototyping - CORRECT ANSWER Creating physical examples of a
design as quickly as possible, to allow further assessment and improvement.
Object oriented systems development OOSD - CORRECT ANSWER Models
real world entities into abstract computer software objects
DSDM - CORRECT ANSWER "Dynamic Systems Development Method"
- iterative process where each iteration follows 80 percent rule (Pareto principal) Three cycles:
- Functional model iteration
- Design and build iteration
- Implementation
Computer aided software engineering tools - CORRECT ANSWER Software
tools that provide automated support for some portion of the systems development process.
open source software - CORRECT ANSWER Software such as Linux that
includes its uncompiled source code which can be modified and distributed by programmers
HITECH Act - CORRECT ANSWER Health Info Technology for Economic &
Clinical Health Act. Part of ARRA. Additional privacy regulations on top of HIPAA, breach notification rules & stiffer civil and criminal penalties for security violations
Alert fatigue - CORRECT ANSWER A condition that arises when too many
alerts cause physicians to disregard them
WOWs - CORRECT ANSWER workstations on wheels
RxNorm - CORRECT ANSWER A clinical drug nomenclature developed by
the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and HL7 to provide standard names for clinical drugs and administered dose forms
NDC - CORRECT ANSWER - National Drug Code
- unique product identifier for drugs intended for human use
- registered drug establishments must provide FDA with a current list of all drugs manufactured
- 10 digit, 3 segment numeric identifier assigned to each medication
- once an NDC is assigned to a product, it may not be reused
- sometimes referred to as the drug listing act of 1972 - for coding
medication reconciliation - CORRECT ANSWER the process of comparing a
patient's medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking
Pyxis - CORRECT ANSWER An automated dispensing system often used in
hospitals
contingency planning - CORRECT ANSWER Planning for unexpected
events, usually involving a range of scenarios and assumptions that differ from the assumptions behind the core plans.
e-discovery - CORRECT ANSWER The processes by which electronic data
that might be used as legal evidence are requested, secured, and searched.
Data exchange standards - CORRECT ANSWER Protocols that help ensure
that data transmitted from one system to another remain comparable
Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12) - CORRECT ANSWER A
committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) responsible for the development and maintenance of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards for many industries. The ASC 'X12N' is the subcommittee of ASC X12 responsible for the EDI health insurance administrative transactions such as 837 Institutional Health Care Claim and 835 Professional Health Care Claim forms
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) - CORRECT
ANSWER Develops standards for exchange of digital images
interface engine - CORRECT ANSWER allows two applications to exchange
information without having to build a customized interface for each application
Message format standards - CORRECT ANSWER Protocols that help ensure
that data transmitted from one system to another remain comparable
Extensible Markup Language (XML) - CORRECT ANSWER a markup
language for documents, containing structured information
CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) - CORRECT
ANSWER Certifies EHRs
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) - CORRECT ANSWER An access control
model that bases the access control authorizations on the roles (or functions) that the user is assigned within an organization
Break Glass Access - CORRECT ANSWER Temporary and specific
emergency access to specifically locked PHI data in order to gain access to information which enables tasks completion.
Security risk analysis - CORRECT ANSWER Identification of potential
threats of computer network breaches, for which action plans are devised.
two-factor authentication - CORRECT ANSWER requires the user to provide
two means of authentication, what the user knows (password) and what the user has (security token)
Continuity of Care Record (CCR) - CORRECT ANSWER record that contains
a standardized summary of the most relevant and timely health information about a patient
Health Information Exchange (HIE) - CORRECT ANSWER The exchange of
health information electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability, such as labs and pharmacies
Identity matching algorithm - CORRECT ANSWER Rules established in an
information system that predicts the probability that two or more patients in the database are the same patient
Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) - CORRECT ANSWER
Developed to provide a secure, national, inter-operable health info infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers and others in supporting healthcare services.
Application Service Provider (ASP) - CORRECT ANSWER A company that
provides the software, support, and computer hardware on which to run the software from the user's facilities over a network.
DIKW - CORRECT ANSWER Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
migration path - CORRECT ANSWER A strategic plan that identifies
applications, technology, and operational elements needed for the overall information technology program in a healthcare organization is called:
BC-MAR - CORRECT ANSWER Bar-code medication administration record
barcode to add dimension of positive identification on patient
RCM - CORRECT ANSWER Revenue Cycle Management
Eligibily verification - CORRECT ANSWER Determine if payor will reimburse
Information - CORRECT ANSWER Data converted into a meaningful and
useful context
data integrity - CORRECT ANSWER In a database or a collection of
databases, the condition that exists when data values are consistent and in agreement with one another.
information science - CORRECT ANSWER The science of information,
studying the application and usage of information and knowledge in organizations and the interfacings or interaction between people, organizations, and information systems. An extensive, interdisciplinary science that integrates features from cognitive science, communication science, computer science, library science, and social sciences.
information processing - CORRECT ANSWER Conversion of latent info into
manifest info
CBIS (Computer Based Information System) - CORRECT ANSWER an
information system that uses computer technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks
SDLC Phases - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Planning
- Analysis
- Design
- Development
- Testing
- Implementation
- Maintenance
Waterfall Model - CORRECT ANSWER an SDLC approach that assumes the
phases can be completed sequentially with no overlap
