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SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR(2026/2027)!!
Telehealth - ANSWER-A broad term having to do with
providing health care services from a distance. A direct
service provided from a distance to clients/patients,
consultations to other health care professionals, education
related to health care to clients or other health care
professionals, and coordination of care (helping integrated
physical and behavioral health concerns to improve the
outcomes for both, reducing unnecessary readmissions,
reducing medication errors, treatment errors, wrong
diagnosis).
,Telemental health - ANSWER-Providing psychotherapy
directly to a client when the clinician and the client are not
in the same location. Telemental health and mental health
services are not separate services. It is the same service,
provided by different means.
Analog - ANSWER-A continuous signal where the time
varying variable is represented by another time varying
quantity. It differs from a digital signal where a continuous
quantity is represented by a discrete function that only
takes on one of a finite number of values.
,Application Service Provider (ASP) - ANSWER-An ASP
hosts a variety of applications on a central server. For a
fee, customers can access the applications over secure
Internet connections or a private network. This means that
they do not need to purchase, install or maintain the
software themselves; instead they rent the applications
they need from the ASP. New releases, such as software
upgrades, are generally included in the price.
Asynchronous - ANSWER-Term describing store and
forward transmission of medical images and/or data
because the data transfer takes place over a period of
time, and typically in separate time frames. The
transmission typically does not take place simultaneously.
This is the opposite of synchronous (see below).
, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - ANSWER-A
telecommunications standard to support voice, video and
data communications. The mode uses asynchronous time-
division multiplexing and encodes data into small, fixed-
sized cells rather than packets or frames.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - ANSWER-A
healthcare organization characterized by a payment and
care delivery model that seeks to tie provider
reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the
total cost of care for an assigned population of patients.
(Wikipedia)