Healthcare Costs
Healthcare Quality
Law & Ethics
Medical Technology
Miscellaneous
100
A measure of all the goods and services produced by a nation in a given year.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
100
The measurement of quality against an established standard.
What is Quality Assurance?
100
This law protects personal medical information.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
100
At a fundamental level, this deals with the application of knowledge produced by biomedical research.
What is Medical Technology?
100
This is the main function of the National Institutes of Health.
What is to conduct and support biomedical research?
200
This measures general inflation.
What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
200
This is a quality report card.
What is the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)?
200
The FDA was given the authority to review the effectiveness and safety of a new drug before it could be marketed under this law.
What is the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments, 1962?
200
The fact that information can be shared between physicians, pharmacists, and hospitals is the main advantage of this.
What is Electronic Health Records (EHR)?
200
This is the department of the DHHS supports research on health care quality, cost, and access.
What is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?
300
Approximately what 16% of GDP in the United States is spent on this.
What is healthcare?
300
The purpose of this is to provide a plan to manage a clinical problem based on evidence or consensus, lower costs, and improve outcomes.
What is clinical practice guidelines?
300
These laws prohibit self-referral by physicians to facilities in which they have an ownership interest.
What is the Stark laws?
300
Telemedicine technology that allows a specialist located at a distance to directly interview and examine a patient .
What is synchronous?
300
This is the purpose of certificate of need (CON) laws.
What is to control new construction and modernization projects?
400
This is influenced by waste and abuse, increase in the elderly population, and growth of technology.
What is medical cost inflation?
400
Proactive efforts to prevent adverse events related to clinical care and facilities operations.
What is Risk Management?
400
This law provided incentives for pharmaceutical firms to develop new drugs for health problems that affected a relatively small number of people.
What is the Orphan Drug Act, 1983?
400
The asynchronous form of telemedicine uses this type of technology.
What is store-and-forward?
400
To approve and monitor research that involves human subjects is the role of this.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
500
Costs associated with management of the financing, insurance, delivery, and payment functions of health care.
What are administrative costs?
500
This is a timeline that identifies planned medical interventions with expected patient outcomes for a diagnosis.
What is Critical Pathways?
500
This law requires that injuries, illness, or death from any device be reported.
What is the Safe Medical Devices Act, 1990?
500
The expectations that Americans have about what medical technology can do to cure illness is based on this.
What is cultural beliefs and values?
500
The point at which marginal benefits equal marginal costs.
What is the optimum point?
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