Acronyms
The most commonly accepted term for software to store, access, and use patient healthcare information.
What is EHR (Electronic Health Record)?
A person who is admitted to the hospital and stays overnight or for an indeterminate amount of time, usually several days or weeks.
What is inpatient?
The ability of a software program to accept, send, and communicate data from its database to and from multiple vendors' software programs.
What is interoperability?
Part of the federally funded Medicare insurance program that covers hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other non-ambulatory services.
What is Medicare Part A?
Three distinct models of EHR are the Distribution-Based Model, the Facility-Based Model, and the _____ Model.
What is Web-Based?
A person who is not hospitalized for 24 hours or more but may visit a medical facility for diagnosis or treatment.
What is outpatient?
It passed as part of ARRA and aided in the development of a national healthcare infrastructure.
What is HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act?
Part of the federally funded Medicare insurance program that covers medical providers' supervision, outpatient hospital care, diagnostic tests, ambulance services, and other ambulatory services.
What is Medicare Part B?
A software program that manages, among other things, financial transactions, the billing of insurance claims, and the issuing of patient statements.
What is PMS (Practice Management System)?
Online applications that are designed to allow patients access to and storage of their medical records and allow communication with their health-care provider via the Internet.
What is patient portals?
The transmission of healthcare information electronically across organizations with a region, community, or hospital system.
What is HIE (health information exchange)?
This president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law in 2009.
Who is President Obama?
This allows patients access via the Internet to store and update personal medical information.
What is PHR (Personal Health Record)?
The use of computerized tools, usually embedded in an EHR program, to crate and sign prescriptions for medicines.
What is e-prescribing?
This deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of electronic healthcare information involving computer hardware and software.
What is HIT (health information technology)?
This president outlined a plan "to ensure that most Americans have electronic health records within the next ten years" in 2004.
Who is President George W. Bush?
Medicare Improvements for _____ and _____ Act (MIPPA) of 2008.
What are Patients and Providers?
The time and place the healthcare provider gives the patient medical care.
What is point of care?
The initial creation and use of the computerized patient record occurred in large hospitals during what time period _____ (what decade).
What is the 1960s?
The catalyst for development of the electronic health record concept has always been improvement in the quality of _____ and safety.
What is patient medical care?