LCHI 466 Final Exam 2025
Consumer Empowerment - -the investment of authority in those who purchase goods
and services
Health Breach Notification Rule - -regulation that requires commercial PHR vendors to
notify individuals whose information was breached and file a report with the FTC
HL7 PHR System Functional Model - -identifies the features and functions in a system
necessary to create and manage an effective PHR
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) - -Government agency that enforces the HIPAA Privacy
Act.
Patient Engagement - -The combination of patient activation with interventions designed
to promote positive patient behavior.
Personal Health Record (PHR) - -An electronic or paper health record maintained and
updated by an individual for himself or herself; a tool that individuals can use to collect,
track, and share past and current information about their health or the health of
someone in their care.
PHR Privacy Notice - -Another effort to explain PHRs to consumers and address their
concerns
Standalone - -independent of any sponsor
Tethered - -connected to sponsor (each of which may supply data to or use data from a
PHR in different ways)
Transparency - -In healthcare, the degree to which individual patients are made aware
of how their personal health information is or has been dispersed to secondary medical
databases.
Value-Driven Healthcare - -a focus of the federal government on ways to achieve better
quality outcomes per dollar spent on healthcare, such as providing incentives for use of
EHR, affording consumers transparency, and introducing risk of sharing and greater
accountability among providers for continuity of care, along with other health reform
measures
Clinical Messaging - -the function of electronically delivering data and automating the
workflow around the management of clinical data
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Code 39 Bar Code Standard - -An alphanumeric, self-checking, variable-length code
that has been standardized by the Health Industry Bar Code Council (HIBCC); also
called "linear bar code".
Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) - -A storage solution based on
digital scanning technology in which source documents are scanned to create digital
images of the documents that can be stored electronically on optical disks.
Electronic Signature Authentication - -a system that utilizes a user ID and password to
indicate review and approval of the content of a document
Enterprise Content, Collaboration, and Communication Management (EC3M) - -
Systems that aid in the management of electronic content as well as the sharing and
transmission of such content, especially among members of a team who may need to
dynamically interact with documents as they are being created.
Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) - -Convergence of enterprise-wide
content management (ECM) and electronic record management (ERM) that provides
functionality for managing all content across its life cycle according to legal, regulatory,
and operational requirements.
Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) - -An index that provides access to multiple
repositories of information from overlapping patient populations that are maintained in
separate systems and databases
Hybrid Record - -A system with functional components that (1) include both paper and
electronic documents and (2) use both manual and electronic processes.
Information as a Service - -
Intelligent Character Recognition - -An advanced form of OCR in which the system
learns to recognize a specific person's handwriting and, over time, increases its
accuracy.
Intelligent Word Recognition - -newest technology that recognizes unconstrained
handwritten words
Knowledge Management System - -A management strategy that promotes an
integrated and collaborative approach to the process of information asset creation,
capture, organization, access, and use.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - -A method of encoding text from analog paper
into bit-mapped images and translating the images into a form that is computer readable
Positive Patient Identification - -A method of matching a patient to their information,
such as requiring the use of government-issued photo identification.
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - -An automatic recognition technology that uses
a device attached to an object to transmit data to a receiver and does not require direct
contact
Real-Time Location System (RTLS) - -A system used to provide immediate or real-time
tracking and management of medical equipment, staff and patients within all types of
patient care environments.
Scan on Demand - -Cost effective alternative to physical file delivery.
Enables records to be available anytime, anywhere via secure web access.
Creation of a central environment where numerous colleagues can rapidly retrieve
records.
Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) - -An integrated platform on which multiple different EDM
and ECM systems can exchange content.
Workflow Engine - -a system that takes care of the management of workflow, including
task assignment generation, resource allocation, activity performance, case preparation
and modification, launching of applications, and the recording of logistical information
Workflow Management - -the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of the
workflow
Workflow Management System - -a system that stores workflow definitions as a
collection of tasks, resources, and conditional logic
Workflow Technology - -technology that automatically routes electronic documents into
electronic in-baskets of its department staff for disposition decisions
No - -Are PHRs the same as portals?
No - -Does a PHR feed an EHR?
Yes - -Can a PHR be paper OR electronic?
PHR - -An electronic, universally available, lifelong resource of health information
needed by individuals to make health decisions. Individuals own and manage the
information in the PHR, which comes from healthcare providers and the individual. The
PHR is maintained in a secure and private environment, with the individual determining
rights of access. The PHR is separate from and does not replace the legal record of any
provider
PHR - --Are managed by patients
-Can include information from a variety of sources, including providers and patients
themselves
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