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Data Management System - ✅✅ A system for aggregating and disaggregating
electronic data designed to facilitate recovery and use.
Meaningful Use - ✅✅ Measurement thresholds that range from recording patient
information as structured data in the EHR to integrating the information across
care providers and demonstrating value in exchange for incentive payments from
CMS.
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) - ✅✅ A CMS
incentive program that rewards clinicians' use of certified health information
technology.
Big Data - ✅✅ Large and complex data sets that may be analyzed for patterns.
Specification - ✅✅ A statistical analysis that identifies values for a measure by
defined subsets of a population, to allow accurate comparisons for each specified
group.
Adjustment - ✅✅ A statistical technique to aggregate values from specified
population subsets, allowing comparison of samples from populations with
differences in the relative size of subset populations.
Statistical Process Control - ✅✅ A method of identifying significant changes in
measures subject to random variation.
Legacy System - ✅✅ Outdated computer software that lacks the features found
in more current versions.
Cultural Competence - ✅✅ A set of complementary behaviors, practices, and
policies that enables a system, an agency, or individuals to work and effectively
serve pluralistic, multiethnic, and linguistically diverse communities.
Position Control - ✅✅ A system of payroll control that identifies specific
positions created and filled.