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ACS
What is American College of Surgeons?
100
This is used to provide a classification of diseases for morbidity.
What is ICD-10-CM?
100
A single or individual fact like age, gender or temperature.
What is a data element?
100
This contains information about a patient that has been documented by the professional that provided care or services to the patient.
What is a primary data source?
100
The science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information.
What is data analytics?
200
CDC
What is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
200
This formally defines the terminology used in EHR.
What is SNOMED CT?
200
A collection of data organized so it can be easily accessed, managed, reported and updated.
What is a database?
200
This is data derived from from the patient record, such as an index or database.
What is a secondary data source?
200
The practice of using data to make business decisions in healthcare.
What is healthcare data analytics?
300
ISS
What is Injury Severity Score?
300
This is used for reporting physician procedures or services under government and private health insurance.
What is CPT?
300
A process that allows for connections between two systems
What is data mapping?
300
Employees of data banks or federal agencies looking up health data are called this.
What are external users?
300
The process of recording data in a healthcare record system or database.
What is data capture?
400
CPT
What is Current Procedural Terminology?
400
This is a universal code system for tests, measurements and observations.
What is LOINC?
400
The assurance that data entered into an electronic system is only accessed or changed by those authorized.
What is data integrity?
400
Medical or administrative staff at a hospital looking at data are called this.
What are internal users?
400
The process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data to find hidden or subtle relationships or patterns and predicting future outcomes.
What is data mining?
500
MEDPAR
What is Medicare Provider Analysis and Review?
500
This is used to communicate drug related information between hospitals, pharmacies and other organizations.
What is RxNorm?
500
Any notation made by a physician or other heathcare clinician related to a patient's medical condition or treatment.
What is clinical documentation?
500
A listing of cases in order by physicians name or identification number.
What is a physician index?
500
The field of information science that deals with management of health data and information with computers.
What is health informatics?