Healthcare Technology and Information Management Flashcards
Adjustment
A statistical technique to aggregate values from specified population subsets, allowing comparison of samples from populations with differences in the relative size of subset populations.
Administrative information system
An information system designed to assist in the performance of administrative support activities, such as payroll accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, facility management, intranet management, and human resources management.
Big data
Large and complex data sets that may be analyzed for patterns.
Clinical data repository
A database that consists of information from various sources of care and from various departments and/or facilities; the database may represent a longitudinal description of an individual’s care.
Clinical decision support system
An application that accesses structured databases of clinical information to aid a clinician provider in defining probable diagnoses or in selecting appropriate diagnostic tests or treatment options.
Clinical information system
A system that provides for the organized storage, processing, and retrieval of information to support patient care activities.
Cloud computing
Remote access to data storage and processing functions via the Internet without use of or concern for the physical location in which the actual processing or storage systems are housed.
Computerized provider order entry
A process of electronically entering instructions or orders regarding the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Confidentiality
Protection of information from unauthorized use as specified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Cybersecurity
Technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access.
Data warehouse
A web-accessible library of work processes, protocols, and performance measures available to all staff.
Database management system
Software that enables the creation and accessing of data stored in a database.
Decision support system
A system designed to support the decision-making process of an individual or organization through the use of data retrieval, modeling, and reporting.
Distributed processing
A computer network topology in which the workload is spread out across a network of computers that can be located in different organizational units.
Electronic health record
A system that consists of an individual’s medical records from all locations and sources; stored in digital format, it facilitates the storage and retrieval of individual records with the aid of computers.
Electronic health record incentive programs
Programs established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2011 to encourage eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals to adopt, implement, upgrade, and demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology.
Grid computing
A distributed computing model whereby multiple Internet-connected computers emulate a supercomputer.
Health informatics
The acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare information to foster better collaboration among a patient’s various healthcare providers.
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
Legislation that promotes the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology; part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and usually referred to as the HITECH Act.
Health Level Seven (HLZ)
A standard for data formatting that helps to facilitate the exchange of data among disparate systems within and across software vendors.
Healthcare information exchange
Smooth and safe coordination or transfer of patient data and information between two or more unrelated and disparate organizations.
Knowledge management
Efficient handling of information and resources contained in the electronic health record, in the data warehouse of protocols and processes that guide patient care delivery, and from the literature and Internet.
Legacy system
Outdated computer software that lacks the features found in more current versions.
Life cycle (computer)
For computer programs, the sequence of specification, design, implementation, and maintenance. For computer hardware, the sequence in market status–development, announcement, availability, and obsolescence.
Meaningful use
Use of certified electronic health record technology to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency and care and to reduce health disparities; eligible providers who do so receive incentive payments from the federal government.
mHealth (or eHealth) application
Health- and healthcare-related information, tools, and other resources that can be accessed on mobile devices.
Personal health information
Any health information, in any medium, that can be identified as related to an individual.
Portfolio management
The process of selecting and managing an organization’s programs and projects, including valuation of existing and proposed projects against strategic business and clinical objectives for investment decisions.
Specification
A statistical analysis that identifies values for a measure by defined subsets of a population, to allow accurate comparisons for each specified group.
