system overview
This 1996 federal law sets national rules for who
can see, use, and share your health information.
What is HIPAA (the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act)?
This occupation is the largest group of health care
clinicians in the U.S., making up about 19% of the
health care workforce.
What are registered nurses (RNs)?
Health policy experts call the balance of cost,
quality, and access by this name.
What is the Triumvirate?
Acute care is short-term treatment for a sudden
illness or injury that typically lasts this long.
What are hours to days?
The acronym ROI stands for this.
What is Return on Investment?
Opened in 1855, this was the first U.S. hospital
devoted only to children.
What is the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia (CHOP)?
Unlike the allopathic MD, this type of physician is
trained in a holistic, preventive, osteopathic
model.
What is a DO (Doctor of Osteopathic
Medicine)?
Access is defined as both the availability of care
and this
What is the speed of obtaining it?
This is the highest level of trauma center, with
24/7 in-house surgeons and a research and
teaching mission.
What is a Level I trauma center?
This EHR (electronic health record) is used by most
health systems.
What is Epic?
Genes, health behavior, physical environment, and
education are all examples of these factors that
shape health outcomes.
What are the determinants of health?
These MD and DO physicians work primarily in
hospitals, coordinating inpatient care from
admission to discharge.
What are hospitalists?
Understaffed, overcrowded emergency rooms are
an example of this type of system-wide access
problem
What is a general access problem?
This term describes the severity of a patient’s
condition and the intensity of care and resources it
requires
What is acuity?
CHOP makes sure it’s written communications to
families are at this grade level.
What is the 8th-grade level?
Nearly 6 in 10 U.S. community hospitals have this
type of ownership, which makes them tax-exempt.
What is nonprofit?
About 25% of U.S. physicians did not attend U.S.
medical schools and are known by this term
What are international medical
graduates (IMGs)?
Uninsured patients and people living in remote or
rural areas face this type of access problem.
What is a special access problem?
Medicare pays most acute inpatient stays a flat
amount per admission based on this diagnosis
grouping
What is a DRG (Diagnosis-Related
Group)?
The new CHOP practice opened on this date with
this budget
What are 9/28 and $52,000?
This 2009 act pushed hospitals to move from paper
charts to electronic health records.
What is the HITECH Act?
This 2023 fraud scheme involved students buying
nursing diplomas and transcripts to qualify to sit
for the NCLEX
What is Operation Nightingale?
This 1986 federal law requires emergency
departments to screen and stabilize all patients
What is EMTALA (Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act)?
Under this rule, a patient is formally admitted
when the physician expects care to span at least
two midnights.
What is the Two-Midnight Rule?
Communication at CHOP is provided in these.
What are multiple languages?