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Ch 1 - Technology in Care Delivery Flashcards

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Informatics

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Application of information technology

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Medical Informatics

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“Interdisciplinary science of acquisition, maintenance, retrieval, and application of biomedical knowledge and information to improve pt care, medical info, and health science research”

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Who is needed to develop an EMR system?

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Clinical professionals

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What kind of data needs to be collected into an EMR?

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Anything and everything

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How do we measure safety, efficacy, and reliability?

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Once we crunch all numbers together, we will know if there is a safety issue in the EMR, how fast can we correct it

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How do we determine responsibility for errors?

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Who put info into the chart

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Administrative Applications

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Office management use - scheduling, account and billing

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Clinical Applications

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Anything to do with direct pt care - includes diagnosis, monitoring, and treatments

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EHR

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Belongs to a single pt and is the info from one or more encounters, test results, vital signs, demographics, etc (Pt portal/MySanfordChart)

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EMR

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Belongs to a single health care institution and is where the pt info is entered into a system and managed (EMR = medical professionals)

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Interoperability

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Computer systems and programs that can communicate and transfer data between systems (where it doesn’t work, like D2L and Pages)

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Health Information Technology (HIT)

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EMR and computer information systems

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What would complete interoperability look like?

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Would be great if all systems could talk to each other but there are glitches

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Problems & Challenges w/ EMRs

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Costs, accuracy, reliability, workflow, system automation & defaults, distracting, privacy, complex interfaces, shortcuts in charting

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EMR for the win!

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Reduce errors, handwriting is hard to read, default alerts and thresholds, data support systems, smart sets, clinical care picture, pt access, tracking care, continuation of care, screenings & preventative care

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Foundational Interoperability

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One EHR system can receive data from another system but doesn’t need to be able to interpret it

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Structural Interoperability

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Data can be exchanged between information technology systems and interpersonal at the data field level

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Semantic Interoperability

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Where two or more systems can exchange information, and the exchanged information can be used

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CMS

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Center for Medicare and Medicaid

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ONC

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Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

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1996 - HIPAA

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Privacy and security to individual records and insurance portability

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2004 - ONCHIT

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Bush Admin - declared 2004-2014 “The decade of HIT” aimed promote and oversee to development of national health information tech infrastructure, adoption, and meaningful use of EHR

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2009 - ARRA

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Obama Admin - promotes the expansion of HIT even further and offered monetary incentives through Medicare and Medicaid for HC systems to adopt EHR’s

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2009 - HITECH

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Provision of ARRA and increases penalties for violating HIPAA (fined)

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2010 - ACA

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Affordable Care Act - goal was to make health insurances accessible and affordable, expand Medicaid, and support methods to lower the cost of HC

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Meaningful use of EHR’s

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providers need to show they are using the EHR tech in ways that can be measured significantly in quantity and quality - it all has to have purpose and can be measured

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ACA in a nutshell

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Signed into effect in 2010, individual mandate repealed in 2017 but some provisions of original act in place

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HIE

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Health Insurance Exchange - marketplace to purchase insurance

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Biometrics

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Uses body parts to identify user (retina, finger) like in the movies

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Encryption

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Data is scrambles as it passes through the internet

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Office Management

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Ordering supplies, staff scheduling, budget analysis etc…

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Scheduling

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staff, pts, outreach clinics, procedures, therapies, out-pt services

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Accouting

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Payment collection, billing, insurance coding, payment processing

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Personal Health Records (PHR)

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electronic form of individuals health info, available on an Web enabled device, used in emergency situations to communicate important info, routine dr visits, pt owns records & controls the use & access to it

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Meaningful Use of PHR

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Defined by ONCHIT in meeting criteria in stages

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Quality Based Repayment Programs

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includes protected health info, e-perescribing, pt electronic access, pt engagement, health info exchange, & public health & clinical data registry reporting

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CHIP

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Children’s Health Insurance for those who don’t qualify for Medicaid

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ADE

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EHR’s try to improve pt’s outcome by decreasing Adverse Drug Events

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RHIO

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Regional Health Information Organizations (regional shared data)

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NHIN

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(National Health Information Network) communication between regions

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FIS

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Financial Information System

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CIS

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Clinical Information System

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PIS

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Pharmacy Information System

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RIS

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Radiology Information System

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LIS

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Laboratory Information System

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NIS

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Nursing Information System

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PACS

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Picture Archiving and Communication System

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DRG

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Diagnosis-related group - related to one primary diagnosis that gives the encounter a relative weight and/or classification. This formula determines reimbursement amounts for that particular encounter. Excess cost is absorbed by hospital. A DRG payment covers all anticipated charges associated with an inpatient stay from admission to discharge.

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ICD

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International Classification of Disease

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Charges, payments, and adjustments

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all types of transactions to an account

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Guarantor

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persons responsible for the payment (pt or third party)

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Schedule of Benefits

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List of services that carrier will cover

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Deductible

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Amount of pt is required to pay before insurance kicks in

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Co-payment

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part of each charge that pt is responsible for

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Medicaid

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federal state funded based on need

56
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Medicare

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