ACRONYMS
This act required national standards for electronic healthcare transactions, code sets, unique health identifiers, and security.
What is HIPAA?
This is a term used for health professionals who provide health care services.
What is Provider?
This Massachusetts-based electronic record management system is used throughout HealthPoint.
What is eCW?
For every 10 people in a doctor’s office, seven are there seeking care for reasons related to this type of care HealthPoint provides.
What is Behavioral Health?
During this process, the patient population is segmented according to healthcare needs allowing us to do a better job of targeting resources to those who need them most.
What is risk stratification?
This designation means HealthPoint provides services regardless of a patient’s ability to pay, we charge for services on a sliding fee scale and operate under a governing board that includes patients.
What is an FQHC?
In this setting, two or more healthcare professionals share patient care responsibilities, each practicing within their scope, to achieve high-quality patient care.
What is team-based care?
This software helps teams identify and address patient care gaps faster including alerting users when patients have been to the ER or admitted to the hospital.
What is Azara?
This department helps reviews patients' financial information to determine if they qualify for the programs we offer and what fees they will pay for services.
What is Eligibility?
This group can consist of a physician, nurse, medical assistant, social worker, community health worker, care coordinator, and that just lists a few!
What is a care team?
This annual reporting system provides standardized information about the performance and operation of health centers.
What is UDS?
These are staffed by an MA and utilize the Medpod. Services at these locations can include acute care, well-child checks, vaccination clinics, and in-house testing.
What is school-based telehealth clinics?
This website offers virtual training and continuing education programs to healthcare professionals.
What is Health.edu?
This department helps employees with benefits, performance issues, leave management, policies and procedures, and compensation questions.
What is Human Resources?
Defined broadly these are conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.
What are chronic conditions?
Practices that earn this designation have committed to continuous quality improvement and a patient-centered approach to care.
What is PCMH
This is defined as providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
What is Patient-Centered Care?
This supply management system has enhanced patient safety by offering guaranteed temperature control and automatic inventory rotation.
What is AccuVax?
Individually members of this group lead departments, collectively they make decisions at high levels for the organization.
What is the Senior Leadership Team?
A group of patients who obtain their primary medical care from a single health care provider.
What is a panel?
HealthPoint receives funding from this organization to provide affordable primary care services in rural and underserved areas.
What is HRSA?
This is facilitated by a physician-led, team-based approach to health care. It reduces fragmentation of care and improves patient safety and quality of care.
What is Continuity of Care?
This private network helps users locate and view information faster, store necessary forms, and collaborate on documents.
What is the Intranet?
This department ensures the efficiency and quality of clinic services at all clinic sites and assists managers in drafting work schedules and developing goals.
What is Operations?
These are nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. Including where people are born, grow, work, live, age, economic policies, social norms, racism, and climate change.
What are social determinants of health?