American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - Answer **Authorized INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for adopting &
using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and promote
economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3) To provide
investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological
advances in science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmental
protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To
stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions
in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - Answer Produced evidence
making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability
Asynchoronous Applications - Answer No contact with patient for data collection. EX:
Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data w/
providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
Administrative Information System - Answer can include registration and scheduling;
tracking through admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling;
financial or accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human resources;
quality assurance; and contract management functions.
Affordable Care Act - Answer law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance,
address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and
introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.
Alarm Fatique - Answer Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or
delaying their response to the alarm.
ANA (American Nurses Association) - Answer Professional organization for all RNs.
Concerned with licensure, collective bargaining and education
Analytics - Answer A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and
quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management
to drive decisions and actions.
Audit trail - Answer a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when
information was accessed, and whether any information was changed
Authentication - Answer A method for confirming users' identities
Authorization - Answer The process of giving someone permission to do or have
something
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Barcode Scanning Technology - Answer Scans drug and patients wristband to verify
medication order, inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin
Big Data - Answer a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and
unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of information technology
Bioinformatics - Answer application of mathematics and computer science to store,
retrieve, and analyze biological data
Biometrics - Answer the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such
as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
Business Continuity Plan - Answer A plan for how an organization will recover and
restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time
after a disaster or extended disruption
Business Intelligence - Answer Information collected from multiple sources such as
suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making
Change Control Board (CCB) - Answer A committee that evaluates the worthiness of a
proposed change and either approves or rejects the proposed change.
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - Answer The senior manager (usually a registered nurse
with advanced education and extensive experience) responsible for administering
patient care services
Clinical Care Classification (CCC) - Answer "Two interrelated taxonomies, the CCC of
Nursing Diagnoses and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions and Actions,
that provide a standardized framework for documenting patient care in hospitals, home
health agencies, ambulatory care clinics, and other healthcare settings"
CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) - Answer An order entry and decision
support system that allows direct entry of orders and immediately shared w/ others
Change Management - Answer The process, tools and techniques that help people
implement changes to achieve a desired outcome. (Supports the adoption of a
medication Administration System)
Change Control - Answer Helps to prioritize limited resources and ensures system
standards are upheld.
Connected health - Answer a model of health care delivery using technology to provide
services including information and education.
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Technology assisted healthcare is delivered between at least 2 points involving either
asynchronous or synchronous exchange.
Consumer Health Informatics - Answer Use of electronic info & communication to
improve medical outcomes & healthcare decision making from pt perspective.
Patient view and structures and process that enable consumer to manage their own
care.
Clinical Research Informatics - Answer Discovery and management of new knowledge
pertinent to health and disease from clinical trials via secondary data use.
C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture) - Answer Allows interoperability
of health information exchange between to hospitals.
21st Century Cures Act - Answer designed to help accelerate medical product
development and bring new innovations and advances to patients who need them faster
and more efficiently.
Provisions that will improve workflow & exchange of electronic info. ONC (responsible
for implementing) seamless & secure access, exchange and use of electronic health
info.
5 rights of clinical decision support - Answer Right information
Right person
Right intervention format
Right channel
Right time in workflow
Clinical Informatics - Answer concentration on the delivery of timely, safe, effective , EB
and pt centered care.
C - Answer
Clinical Decision Support System - Answer A special subcategory of clinical information
systems that is designed to help healthcare providers make knowledge-based clinical
decisions
Ex: Alerts for abnormal VS, labs results, med contraindications, screenings, standing
orders, reminders in EHR ect...
Clinical Information Systems - Answer Ex: May be specific to certain departments. Lab,
radiology, pharm(Both), or particular pt population.
Functions may include order entry, results reporting, scheduling and documentation.
Lg computerized database used to access the pt data that are needed to plan,
implement and evaluate care.