Chapter 1: Key Terms Flashcards
Key terms & Definitions
abstracting
accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
active
agenda
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
associate
biometrics
board of directors
board of governors
board of trustees
bylaws
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
chief resident
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
coding
consulting
continuum of care
contract services
Courtesy
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
deemed status
deeming authority
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
digital signature
disaster recovery plan
do not resuscitate (DNR)
electronic health record (EHR)
electronic signature
Emergency Medicat Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
encoder
Federal Register for-profit
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
governing board
government-supported hospitals
groupers
HCPCS Level Il (national) codes
Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB)
Health Care Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
health care proxy
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
Hill-Burton Act
Hippocrates
Hippocratic Oath
honorary
hospital administration
hospital departments
hospitalists
Human Genome Project
incomplete record processing
intern
International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)
intranet
licensure
living will
Medicaid (Title 19)
medical staff
medical transcription
Medicare (Title 18)
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)
Medical Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA)
Medieval medicine
Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
Middle Ages
minutes
modern medicine
National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
not-for-profit
ORYX® initiative
paleopathology
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
Patient Self-Determination Act
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)
prehistoric medicine and ancient medicine
primary care
proprietary hospitals
public hospitals
public key cryptography
quality improvement organization (QIO)
quaternary care
record circulation
regulation
Renaissance medicine
resident
rules and regulations
secondary care
Shared Visions-New Pathways
smart card
standards
State Children’s Health Program (SCHIP)
state department of health
survey
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA)
teaching hospitals
telehealth
telemedicine
tertiary care
Title XXl of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
triage
Insurance
universal chart order
veterans
voluntary hospitals
regulation
Renaissance medicine
resident
rules and regulations
secondary care
Shared Visions-New Pathways
smart card
standards
State Children’s Health Program (SCHIP)
state department of health
survey
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA)
teaching hospitals
telehealth
telemedicine
tertiary care
Title XXl of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
triage
Insurance
universal chart order
veterans
voluntary hospitals