Ch2 Vocab Flashcards
Administrative information
Information used for administrative and healthcare operations purposes, such as billing and quality oversight.
Allied Health professional
A credentialed healthcare worker who is not a physician, nurse, psychologist, or pharmacist. Such as physical therapist, dietitian, social worker, or occupational therapist
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)
Computer-based patient record (CPR)
Critical access hospital (CAHs)
- Hospitals that are excluded from the outpatient prospective payment system because they are paid under a reasonable cost-based system as required under section 1834(g) of the Social Security Act 2. Under HITECH incentives, a facility that has been certified as a critical access hospital under section 1820(e) f the Act and for which Medicare payment is made under section 1814(1) of the Act for inpatient services and under section 1864(g) of the Act for outpatient services
Derived data
Factual details aggregated or summarized from a group of health records that provide no means of identifying specific patients
Destruction
under ICD-10-PCS, a root operation that involves physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part of the direct use of energy , force, or a destructive agent
Health information management (HIM) professionals
an individual who has received professional training at the associate or baccalaureate degree level in the management of health data and information flow throughout healthcare delivery system
Health Level Seven (HL7) International
A not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards-developing organizations dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services
Health record
- Information relating to the physical or mental health or condition of an individual, as made by or on behalf of a health professional in connection with the care ascribed that individual. 2 A medical record, health record, or medical chart that is a systematic documentation of a patient’s medical history and care
Legal health record
Documents and data elements that a healthcare provider may include in response to legally permissible requests for patient information.
Longitudinal health record
A permanent, coordinated patient record of significant information listed in chronological order and maintained across time, ideally from birth to death
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
Established by COngress to serve as an advisory body to HHS on health data, statistics, and national health information policy. It fulfills important review and advisory functions relative to health data and statistical problems of national and international interest, stimulates or conducts studies of such problems and makes proposals for information to the nation’s health statistics and information systems. In 1996 the committee was restructured to meet expanded responsibilities under HIPPA
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)
a not-for-profit ANSI-accredited standards development organization founded in 1977 that develops standards for exchanging prescription and payments information
Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)
