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Intro To Health Systems > Chapter One Vocab > Flashcards

Chapter One Vocab Flashcards

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Abstracting

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Enter codes and other patients information into computer software.

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Accrediation

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Voluntary process that hospital does to demonstrate that it has met standards required by the law

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Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

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Oversees medical graduates

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Active

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Medical Staff Category. Delivers most hospital medical services, performs significant organizational and admin medical staff duties

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Agenda

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A list of all items of business to discuss.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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Implementation of Health Information Technologies

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Associate

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Medical Staff Category. Advancement to active category is being considered.

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Bylaws

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Rules and regulations established by a company for internal management

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

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Oversees Medicaid and Medicare.

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Chief Resident

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Final year of graduate school.

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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

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Rules that establishments must follow based on laws

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Consulting

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Medical Staff Category. Includes highly qualified practitioners available as consultants when needed

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Continuum of care

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A complete range of programs and services

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Courtesy

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Admits an occasional patient to the hopstial

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Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)

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five digit codes assigned to ambulatory procedures and purposes

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Deemed status

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To exceed or meet medicaid or medicare requirements of care. Pertaining to medical facilities to receive reimbursement.

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Deeming authority

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The Center of Medicaid & Medicare services. CMS

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Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

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Created Medicaid Integrity Program MIP, a program to detect fraud and abuse.

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Disaster recovery plan

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A plan that ensures appropriate responses to disasters.

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do not resuscitate (DNR)

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Alerts doctors and medical staff to not try to resuscitate someone if they stop breathing or their heart stops beating.

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Electronic Health Record (EHR)

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Records on a patient

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Electronic Signature

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All technological options available to authenticate a documents.

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Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

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Provide all patients with a medical screening examination (MSE) Stabilize any patients with an emergency medical condition. Transfer or accept appropriate patients as needed.

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Encoder

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Software tool for coders to select diagnostic and procedure codes.

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Coding

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assigning codes to diagnosis, procedures, and services.

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For-Profit

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Privately owned and excess income is divided amongst shareholders.

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Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

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Places of care cannot refuse patients for potential diseases due to their genetic make up

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Governing board

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Elected individuals of a hospital responsible for its operations and quality of care.

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Government-supported hospitals

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Public hospitals. Not for profit. Support y local, regional, and federal taxes and operated in the latter.

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Groupers

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Grouping diagnostic codes.

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HCPCS Level One and Two (National) codes

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Codes for procedures and services

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Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB)

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Combats fraud and abuse by recording practitioners actions.

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Health care proxy

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A legal doc that assigns another person to make the medical decisions for someone if they become inapplicable to doing so themselves.

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Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

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Patient privacy and security act

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Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

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Tool used by health plans to collect data and the quality of care and service they provide.

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Hill-Burton Act

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  1. Federal funding to hospitals that became obsolete during the great depression. Provides care to patients unable to pay.
    Governed by The Department of Health and Human Services.
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Hippocrates

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The father of western-medicine, the first to consider medicine and sciences separate from art and religion.

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Hippocratic Oath

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The physician shall cause no harm. A set of medical ethics.

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Honorary

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Medical Staff Category: Includes former members who are honored.

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Human Genome Project

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  1. Studying of understanding all DNA sequencing in the body.
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Incomplete Record Processing

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Arrangement of paper medical records

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Intern

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First year grad student

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International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification, (ICD-10-CM)

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Collection of diseases and injuries to classify diagnoses.

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Intranet

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Private network used by an organization

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Licensure

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A license to practice medicine, or operate

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Living Will

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Contains a patients instructions about the use of life-sustaining treatment.

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Medicare

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Government funded and state funded health insurance for the disabled, terminal, and elderly over 65.

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Medical Transcription

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transcription of dictated reports.

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Medicaid

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Government and State funded healthcare for those in lack of resources, and low incomes.

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Medicare Prescription Drug improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003

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Provides different kinds of medicaid healthcare plans

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Medieval Medicine

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Was the kind of medicine practiced in the middle ages

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Middle Ages

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Medical Hospitals to care for the sick were formed by nuns in churches. Otherwise medical care was for the rich

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Modern Medicine

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Study of disease processes and treatments. Scientific based evidences.

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National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)

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Background information and checks on practitioners

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Not-for-profit

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Excess income is reinvested in the facility.

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ORYX initiative

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Monitors surveys and creates outcomes with the data to assist in standards

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Paleopathology

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Study of human remains

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Patient Self-Determination Act

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Informed consent on medical procedures, and advanced medical decisions.

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Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)

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Financial for eligible professionals to partake in voluntary quality reporting programs

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Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine

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Characterized by the supernatural in an attempt to explain changes in bodily function.

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Primary Care

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Preventative and acute care. First point of contact of care services.

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Proprietary Hosptials

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For profit hospitals.

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Public Hosptials

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Not for profit hospitals run by local and federal taxes.

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Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)

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CMS organization that reviews CMS beneficiaries for standards and improvement suggestions

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Quaternary Care

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Extension of tertiary care, advanced levels of specialized medicine and specialized care

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Record Circulation

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In a paper record system, its the retrieval of patients records

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Regulation

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Interpretation of a law

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Renaissance Medicine

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Beginning of modern medicine, meaning based on education rather their spiritual beliefs. Rebirth of medical education.

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Resident

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Completed internship, focusing in a speciality.

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Secondary Care

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Referred by a primary care physician to a hospital or medical specialist.

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Shared Visions- New Pathways

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Scoring and accreditation process of standards

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State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

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Health insurance for infants, kids and teens.

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State Department of Health

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Issues medical licenses

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Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982

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Essentially made it possible for children under the age of 19 with certain disabilities to receive medical care without counting their parents incomes.

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Triage

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Organized methods of identifying and treating patients according to urgency of care required

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Universal Chart Order

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Arrangement of patients paper records

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Teaching Hosptials

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Can be for profit and not for profit. 24 hour physician care with latest therapies.

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Telehealth

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Telecommunication technology to support deliver health-related-services at a distance.

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Telemedicine

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Clinical services that are provided remotely.

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Tertiary Care

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Services provided by a specialized hospitals equipped with diagnostic and treatment facilities not at most hospitals.

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Voluntary Hospitals

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Not-for-profit, religiously affiliated.

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Hospital Admin

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Finances, Information resources management, overseeing specific departments.

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Medical Staff

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Licensed physicians and other providers such as nurses, practitioners, etc.

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Hospitalists

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Physician who work in a hospital setting.

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