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| Accounts Receivable (A/R) |
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| Monies that are coming into a practice |
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| American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) |
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| $787 billion economic stimulus bill passed in 2009 that allocates $19.2 billion to promote the use of HIT |
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| Movement of monies into and out of a business |
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| Nationall recognized designation that acknowledges that an individual has mastered a standard body of knowledge and meets certain competencies |
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| Coordination of care received by a patient over time and across multiple health care providers |
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| Process of analyzing large amounts of data to discover patterns or knowledge |
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| Collection of data that includes all areas of an organization's operations |
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| Code that represents the physician's determination of a patient's primary illness |
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| Record created when a physician provides treatment to a patient |
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| Electronic Health Record (EHR) |
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| Computerized lifelong health care record for an individual that incorporates data from all sources that provide treatment for the individual |
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| Electronic Medical Record (EMR) |
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| Computerized record of one physician's encounters with a patient over time |
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| Technology that enables a physicianto transmit a prescription electronically to a patient's pharmacy |
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| Meeting of a patient with a physician or other medical professional for the pirpose of providing health care |
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| Knowledge required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine |
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| Health Information Exchange (HIE) |
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| Network that enables the sharing of health-related information among provider organizations according to nationally recognized standards |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) |
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| Legislation that protects patients' private health information, ensures health care coverage when workers change or lose jobs, and uncovers fraud and abuse in the health care system |
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| Health Information Technology (HIT) |
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| Use of computers and electronic communications to manage medical information and its secure exchange |
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| Integrated PM/EHR Program |
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| Programs that share and exchange demographic information, appointment schedules, and clinical data |
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| Utilization of certified EHR technology to improve quality, efficiency, and patient safety in the health care system |
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| Health care professionals who perform both administrative and certain clinical tasks in physician offices |
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| Health care professionals who perform administrative tasks throughout the medical billing cycle |
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| Medical office staff members with specialized training who handle the diagnostic and procedural coding of medical records |
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| Medical Documentation and Billing Cycle |
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| Ten-step process that results in timely payment for medical services |
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| Provision of medical services at a less-than-acceptable level of professional skill that results in injury or harm to a patient |
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| Treatment that is in accordance with generally accepted medical practice |
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| Chronological health care record that includes information that the patient provides, such as medical history and the physician's assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plan |
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| National Health Information (NHIN) |
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| Common platform for health information exchange across the country |
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| Examination of person's body in order to determine his or her state of health |
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| Pay for Performance (P4P) |
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| Provision of financial incentives to physicians who provide evidence-based treatments to their patients |
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| Personal Health Record (PHR) |
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| Private, secure electronic health care files that are created, maintained, and owned by the patient |
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| Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) |
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| Medicare program that gives bonuses to physicians when they use treatment plans and clinical guidelines that are based on scientific evidence |
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| Practice Management (PM) Program |
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| Used to perform administrative and financial functions in a medical office |
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| Code that represents the particular service, treatment, or test provided by a physician |
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| Records Retention Schedule |
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| Plan for the management of records that lists types of records and indicates how long they should be kept |
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| Regional Extension Centers (RECs) |
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| Centers that offer information, guidance, training, and support services to primary care providers who are in the process of making the transition to an EHR system |
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| Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) |
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| Management of the activities associated with a patient encounter to ensure that the provider receives full payment for services |
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| Technical specifications for the electronic exchange of information |
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| Computer-based Patient Record |
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| Electronic Medical Record |
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| Continuity of Care Document/Continuity of Care Record |
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