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| (ICD-9 or ICD-10) International Classification of Diseases |
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| ICD is the classification and coding of diseases and injuries. |
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| Information Collection Requirement |
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| The application of computer technology to the management of information. |
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| Independent Practice Association |
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| Integration allows for secure communication between enterprise applications. |
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| The capability to provide successful communication between end-users across a mixed environment of different domains, networks, facilities and equipment. |
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| Internet Service Provider |
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| (IT) Information Technology |
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| The development, installation, and implementation of computer systems and applications. |
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| Small computer workstations which allow information to be input. Patient kiosks are used for patients to input information into the system at the medical practice, usually input through a workstation in the waiting room. |
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| A LAN supplies networking capability to a group of computers in close proximity to each other such as in an office building, a school, or a home. |
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| A system that is considered old and possibly out-dated. |
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| Legacy System Integration |
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| The integration of data between a legacy system and some other software program most commonly using HL-7 standards. |
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| (LEPR) Longitudinal Patient Record |
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| Longitudinal Patient Record is an EHR that includes all healthcare information from all sources. |
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| Medicare Administrative Contractor |
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| A symbol, name or key (macro key) that represents a list of commands, actions, keystrokes or blocks of text. When the macro key code is typed, the program carries out the instructions of the macro. Users create macros to save time by replacing often-used, series of strokes (blocks of text) with quick macro key codes. |
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| Medicare Advantage Organization |
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| Managed Care Organization |
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| A set of standards enforced by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in addition to HIPAA standards and regulations. |
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| MEDCIN® is a medical terminology engine and a registered trademark of MediComp Systems. MEDCIN® includes more than 250,000 clinical data elements encompassing symptoms, history, physical examination, tests, diagnoses and therapy. MEDCIN® contains medical relationships through multiple clinical hierarchies for each Medcin term. |
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| Medicaid Information Technology Architecture |
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| Medicaid Management Information Systems |
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| Net Average Allowable Cost (of certified EHR technology) |
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| National Committee for Quality Assurance |
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| National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics |
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| A system for communication among two or more computers. |
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| National Provider Identifier |
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| Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
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| (OCR) Optical Character Recognition |
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| OCR is recognition of printed or written characters by a computer. |
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| Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
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| (PACS) Picture Archiving and Communication System |
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| An information system for the storage and distribution of digital radiology images over a networked environment that allows for instant access to images and reports. |
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| Prepaid Ambulatory Health Plan |
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| Planning Advance Planning Document |
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| Allow patients and providers to communicate over the Internet in a secure environment. |
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| (PDA) Personal Desk Assistant or Personal Digital Assistant. |
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| PDA is a hand-held device with a multitude of uses such as scheduling appointments on a calendar, creating to-do lists, storing libraries of medical information, viewing patient specific data . PDA allow for mobility. They are also referred to as palmtops, hand-held computers and pocket computers. |
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| Personal Health Information |
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| Preventive Health Maintenance – see Health Maintenance. |
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| Physician Hospital Organization |
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| (PHR) Personal Health Record |
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| A PHR includes all healthcare information from all sources, compiled and maintained by the patient. |
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| Public Health Service Act |
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| Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan |
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| The basic technology of a computer system's hardware and software that defines how a computer is operated and determines what other kinds of software can be used. |
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| Practice Management (billing) system. |
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| Patient Medical Record Information |
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| Practice Management System |
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| Allowing the activation of commands by moving the cursor over certain areas or icons and clicking a pointing device. |
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| POC refers to the time while with the patient, either bedside or during an encounter. |
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| A website considered as an entry point to other websites. Examples are a Patient Portal. |
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| Preferred Provider Organization |
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| Physician Quality Reporting Initiative |
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| Provider Sponsored Organization |
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| Also called a drop-down menu. These are a menu of commands or options that appears when you select an item with a mouse. |
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| (QIO) Quality Improvement Organization |
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| The Medicare QIO program consists of a national network of fifty-three QIO’s found in each state responsible to work with consumers, physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers to refine care delivery systems. They are associated with the DOQ-IT program. |
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| The primary mechanism for retrieving information from a database and consists of questions presented to the database in a predefined format. |
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| (REC) Regional Extension Center |
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| Offer technical assistance, guidance and information on best practices to support and accelerate health care providers' efforts to become meaningful users of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The consistent, nationwide adoption and use of secure EHRs will ultimately enhance the quality and value of health care. |
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| (RCM) Revenue Cycle Management |
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| Administrative duties, clinical and financial, that facilitate the collection of all revenues for the provision of care. The cycle is initiated at the time of appointment setting or registration and concludes with the posting of payments and adjustments, ultimately zero balancing that patient account. |
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| Radio Frequency Identification |
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| Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update |
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| (ROI) Return on Investment |
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| Return on investment typically means measuring an increase in revenue, a decrease in expense or an avoidance of expense. |
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| Regional Preferred Provider Organization |
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| Refers to how well a hardware or software system can adapt to increased demands. |
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| Is the effort to create a secure computing platform, designed so that agents (users or programs) can only perform actions that have been allowed. |
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| A group of networked servers that are housed in one location. |
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| (SSO) is mechanism whereby a single action of user authentication and authorization can permit a user to access all computers and systems where he/she has access permission, without the need to enter multiple passwords. |
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| State Medicaid Health Information Technology Plan |
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| SNOMED CT® - Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms |
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| SNOMED CT ® is a clinical, health care terminology and infrastructure. SNOMED CT ® contains over 366,170 health care concepts with unique meanings and formal logic-based definitions organized into hierarchies. |
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| A format for medical documentation. SOAP is an acronym for S-Subjective, O-Objective, A-Assessment, P-Plan. |
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| The ability of a computer to understand the spoken word for the purpose of receiving commands and transforming speech into text. |
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| An act meant to arouse action. |
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| Structured data is managed by technology that allows for querying and reporting against predetermined data types and understood relationships. |
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| The T1 carrier is a commonly used digital Internet connection line in the US supporting data rates of 1.544Mbits per second. |
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| A tablet pc is a computer shaped in the form of a notebook except it has the capabilities of being written on through the use of digitizing tablet technology or a touch screen. A user can use a stylus and operate the computer without having to have a keyboard or mouse. |
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| Often called a library or dictionary. Templates are pre-defined choices of pick-lists designed to streamline the documentation process. |
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| A thin client is a network computer without a hard disc drive, as opposed to a fat client which includes a disc drive. |
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| Tax Identification Number |
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| The process by which medical transcriptionists convert physician's dictation into written (typed) words. |
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| An input device that allows user to interact with the computer by touching the display screen. |
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| Data which is not structured such as free-text. The computer cannot automatically extract properties and relationships from unstructured data. |
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| (VPN) Virtual Private Network |
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| A way to communicate through a dedicated server securely to a corporate network over the internet. |
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| A computer network that spans a larger geographical area than a LAN (Local Area Network). |
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| A lecture, presentation, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web. Short for Web-based Seminar. |
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| A website considered as an entry point to other websites. |
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| A system employing no connecting wire between the transmitting and receiving stations. |
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| The automation of a process, in whole or part, during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules. |
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