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This organization was created in 1928 and featured 58 charter members.
What was the American Record Librarians of North America?
Data that has been assigned meaning is called this.
What is information?
This process of assigning numeric or alphanumeric representations to clinical documation.
What is coding?
A single fact that represents the smallest unique subset of a larger database sometimes referred to as the raw facts and figures.
An occurrence in a medical facility that is inconsistent with accepted standards of care.
What is an incident?
This is the accountability framework and decision rights to achieve enterprise information management.
What is Information Governance?
This type of data has been extracted from the individual health records and then combined to form de-identified information about groups of patients to be compared and analyzed.
What is aggregated data?
The recognized system of terms that follows pre-establishing naming conventions.
What is nomenclature?
A listing of all the data elements within a specific system that defines each individual data element, standard input of the data element, and specific data length.
What is a data dictionary?
Reviewing indices and other sources to identify patients who were treated with cancer.
What is case finding?
This group is responsible for managing the organization and determining direction for AHIMA.
What is the AHIMA Board of Directors?
These groups evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care.
What are medical Review Organizations?
A set of standardized terms and their synonyms that record patient findings, circumstances, events, and interventions with sufficient detail to support clinical care, decision support, outcomes research and quality improvement.
What is Clinical Terminology?
This data set collects data for home healthcare setting.
What is an implant?
This is the biggest portion of the Medicaid budget.
What is nursing facility care?
What are medical staff privileges?
This is made up of three main components: concepts, descriptions, and relationships.
What is SNOMED CT?
The process that allows for connections between two systems.
What is data mapping?
This mandated the reporting of deaths and severe complications due to devices.
What is the Safe medical Devices Act of 1990?
This act provided major funds for the implementation of a nationwide health information exchange and implementation of EHR's.
What is the HITECH Act.
This is this the documentation of tests and treatments performed.
What is an Ancillary Department Record ?
This provides a uniform language that allows for accurate descriptions of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services.
What is CPT?
The process of making leaders within the organization responsible for specific areas of the system where data is being entered.
What is data ownership?
A management report of process measures.
What is a dashboard?