People, Providers, Patient Care, &Health Models
This profession provides diagnostic and treatment services under physician supervision and must pass a national certification exam every 10 years.
Physician Assistant
This occurs when insured individuals overuse healthcare services because they don’t bear full costs.
Moral Hazard
This Medicare part covers inpatient hospital stays.
Medicare Part A
This management philosophy emphasizes continuous, organization-wide improvement.
Lean
This term refers to the electronic delivery of treatment to patients as an alternative to face-to-face care.
telemedicine
This issue occurs when long hours, stress, and workload lead to emotional exhaustion among clinicians.
Physician Burnout
This model of healthcare, used in Germany, funds care through employer–employee “sick funds.”
Bismarck Model
This joint federal–state insurance program serves low-income Americans.
Medicaid
This data-driven approach aims to reduce defects and variation in processes.
Six Sigma
This record provides a longitudinal view of a patient’s health across multiple providers.
electronic health record (EHR)
This term describes differences in health status across groups caused by social or structural inequities.
Health Disparities
This type of insurance plan features a high deductible and tax-free savings account for healthcare expenses.
High-Deductible Health Plan with HSA
This ACA provision banned the exclusion of insurance coverage for this health condition type.
Preexisting Conditions
Organizations that “manage the unexpected” and perform reliably under pressure are called this.
High Reliability Organizations
This record type is managed by the patient and contains similar information to EHRs and EMRs.
personal health record (PHR)
This model emphasizes multiple levels of influence on health, from individual to societal factors.
Socioecological Model
This ACA-based marketplace feature allows individuals to compare standardized insurance plans.
Managed Competition
This economic concept occurs when people with inside knowledge buy insurance expecting high future medical costs.
Adverse Selection
This discipline uses behavioral insights to influence healthier decisions.
Behavioral Economics
This mobile-focused subset of e-health supports health services via smartphones and apps.
mHealth
This term describes when patients actively participate in their health decisions and care plans.
Patient Engagement
This type of payment system reimburses hospitals a fixed amount per diagnosis, such as with DRGs.
Prospective Payment System
These ten categories of care are required benefits under ACA marketplace plans.
Essential Health Benefits
This educational model brings together multiple disciplines to improve collaboration and patient care.
Interprofessional Education – IPE
This type of care model relies on IT systems to track outcomes, costs, and patient data to improve quality and efficiency.
value-based care