and CORRECT Answers
ACA - CORRECT ANSWER - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Legislation
passed in 2010 to increase access to healthcare for all Americans and expand Medicaid coverage
AACN - CORRECT ANSWER - American Association of College of Nursing
AAMC - CORRECT ANSWER - Association of Medical College
ACHE - CORRECT ANSWER - American College of Healthcare Executives
ASHE - CORRECT ANSWER - American Society for Healthcare Engineering
accountable vare - CORRECT ANSWER - an accountable care organization is a group of
healthcare providers that give coordinated care and chronic disease management to improve
quality of care
acuity - CORRECT ANSWER - the intensity of care necessary to meet the needs of a
patient
adverse drug events (ADE) - CORRECT ANSWER - generally unwanted, negative
consequences associated with the use of given medications
asclepieion - CORRECT ANSWER - Greek god and healing associated with patient rooms
being oriented to the sun
ambulatory care - CORRECT ANSWER - constitutes diagnostic and therapeutic services
and treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient. In a restricted sense, ambulatory
,care refers to care rendered to patients who come to physicians' offices, outpatient departments
of hospitals, and health centers to receive care
big data - CORRECT ANSWER - an evolving term that describes any voluminous about
of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for
information
board of trustees - CORRECT ANSWER - the governing body of an organization or
corporation that is generally elected by stakeholders to make decisions and policies
bundled payments - CORRECT ANSWER - bundling payment for services that patients
receive across a single episode of care, such as a knee replacement, designed to improve the
quality of care and lower costs
business planning - CORRECT ANSWER - determining the strategies, goals, and
objectives of the business by translating the current and strategic state in terms of costs and
revenues with regard to investments
CAUTI - CORRECT ANSWER - Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
CDC - CORRECT ANSWER - Centers for Disease Control and Precention
C. difficile - CORRECT ANSWER - a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria
CLABSI - CORRECT ANSWER - Central line-associated blood infections
cloud computing - CORRECT ANSWER - recently evolved computing terminology or
metaphor based on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud computing involves
deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage
and online access to computer services or resources
, CMS - CORRECT ANSWER - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
commissioning - CORRECT ANSWER - the process of outfitting the building with the
equipment and furniture not included as built-in features during construction - a quality oriented
process for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the performance of facilities, systems,
and assemblies meets defined objectives and criteria
DOE - CORRECT ANSWER - Department of Energy
EDRA - CORRECT ANSWER - Environmental Design Research Association
EHR - CORRECT ANSWER - Electronic Health Record
emergicenters - CORRECT ANSWER - Care centers that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week and accept patients with no appointments. They provide a wide range of routine services
for basic and acute conditions on a first-come, first-serve basis
ENERGYSTAR - CORRECT ANSWER - A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals save money and protect our climate
through superior energy efficiency It is an international standard for energy efficient products
originated in the U.S.
evidence-based design - CORRECT ANSWER - the process of basing decisions about the
built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes
evidence-based medicine - CORRECT ANSWER - a form of medicine that aims to
optimize decision making by emphacising the use of evidence from well-designed conducted
research
Environment of Care (EOC) - CORRECT ANSWER - the understanding that the
experience a person has in a healthcare delivery system is a function of six components: physical
environment, layout and operations, systems, people, concepts, and implementation