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ACA
Ans: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Legislation passed in 2010 to increase
access to healthcare for all Americans and expand Medicaid coverage
AACN
Ans: American Association of College of Nursing
AAMC
Ans: Association of Medical College
ACHE
Ans: American College of Healthcare Executives
ASHE
Ans: American Society for Healthcare Engineering
accountable vare
Ans: an accountable care organization is a group of healthcare providers that give
coordinated care and chronic disease management to improve quality of care
acuity
Ans: the intensity of care necessary to meet the needs of a patient
adverse drug events (ADE)
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,Ans: generally unwanted, negative consequences associated with the use of given
medications
asclepieion
Ans: Greek god and healing associated with patient rooms being oriented to the sun
ambulatory care
Ans: 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
Ans: 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
Ans: the governing body of an organization or corporation that is generally elected by
stakeholders to make decisions and policies
bundled payments
Ans: 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
Ans: 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
Ans: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
CDC
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, Ans: Centers for Disease Control and Precention
C. difficile
Ans: a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria
CLABSI
Ans: Central line-associated blood infections
cloud computing
Ans: 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
Ans: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
commissioning
Ans: 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
Ans: Department of Energy
EDRA
Ans: Environmental Design Research Association
EHR
Ans: Electronic Health Record
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