WGU D220 Informatics
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
✔**Authorized INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare
professionals for adopting & using interoperable Health Information Technology and
EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and
promote economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3)
To provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring
technological advances in science and health. (4) To invest in transportation,
environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term
economic benefits. (5) To stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to
minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and
local tax increases.
AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
✔Produced evidence making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and
affordability
Asynchoronous Applications
✔No contact with patient for data collection. EX: Remote pt monitoring, Using health
technologies to share health metrics and data w/ providers. STORE & FORWARD
APPS (ex: photos)
Administrative Information System
✔can include registration and scheduling; tracking through admission, transfer and
discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling; financial or accounting systems; risk
management; payroll and human resources; quality assurance; and contract
management functions.
Affordable Care Act
✔law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost reduction and
affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of
Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.
Alarm Fatique
✔Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or delaying their
response to the alarm.
ANA (American Nurses Association)
✔Professional organization for all RNs. Concerned with licensure, collective
bargaining and education
