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HIT concepts
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A disease that can not be cured.
What is a chronic disease?
100
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
100
PHR
What is Personal Health Record
100
HITECH
What is the legislation created for the adoption of healthcare records
100
Patient centered
What is the new paradigm for patient care
200
Methodist Hospital Southern California
What is a community hospital
200
HHS
What is Health and Human Services
200
MU
What is Meaningful Use
200
Meaningful Use
What is HITECH provisions of the ARRA legislation will reward hospitals and physician practices for implementing a certified electronic health
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real time, discrete data, safety, quality, legibility,
What are reasons to implement an EMR
300
St. Joseph's Healthcare
What is a Health System
300
CMS
What is Center for Medicare Services
300
ICD 10
What is International Classification of Disease, 10th revision
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Telehealth
What is remote provision of healthcare services and health education, mediated by technology, telecom, video
300
escalating costs, access to resources, quality of care
What are reasons for healthcare reform
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UCI Medical Center
What is an academic hospital
400
ICU
What is Intensive Care unit
400
HIMSS
What is Health Information Management Systems Society
400
Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech, Siemens
What are the major EMR vendors being implemented today
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Standarization, Adoption, data exchange
What are reasons for HITECH
500
CHOC
What is a children'ts hospital
500
EMR
What is Elecronic Medical Record
500
HIE
What is Health Information Exchange
500
Quality Measures
What is one of the measures for Meaningful Use
500
Pay for Performance
What is the future of health care reimbursement
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