HIT Flashcards

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What are the 5 National Priorities for MU.

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  1. Improve quality, safety, and efficacy of care while reducing health disparities
  2. Engage patients/families in their care
  3. Promote public/population health.
  4. Improve care coordination.
  5. Promote the privacy and security of EHR
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CQM

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Clinical Quality Measure

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HIPAA

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (1996)

Requires payors and Medicare to comply with EDI standards.

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HITECH

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Health information technology for economic and clinical health

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ONC

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Office of national coordinator for health information technology

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What is the HITECH act?

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2009 law signed under ARRA which created MU

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What is Pay for Performance? (P4P) (Value-Based Purchasing)

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A payment model that rewards healthcare providers for better health outcomes.

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what are categories of care?

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they align with the 5 national priorities

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what does INTEROPERABILITY refer to?

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Using technology to exchange key pieces of health information securely with a goal of obtaining the right information in the right context.

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what are the ONC defined framework for a set of building blocks that support system interoperability?

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vocabulary and code sets
content structure
transport
security
services
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CCHIT

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certified commission for health information technology - independent, non profit with a public mission of accelerating the adoption of robust, interoperable HIT

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Define MU

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A qualification to receive federal funding for HIT (emr)

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2015

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Last year of eligibility to achieve MU incentives.

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CAH

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Critical Access Hospital

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MU 2 - How long to meet requirements.

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2 full years

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Eligible hospitals vs Eligible professionals in schedule?

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EPs = Calendar year

Hospitals and CAH = federal fiscal year

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MU General requirements

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Menu set + Core set of objectives specific to EPs or hospitals and CAHs

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CMS MU specification sheet

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Single sheet per objective:

  • Meeting the measure for each objective
  • How to calculate the numerator and denominator for each objective
  • How to qualify for an exclusion to an objective
  • In-depth definitions of terms that clarify objective requirements
  • Requirements for attesting to each measure
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CQM requirements for EPs

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Eligible professionals must report on 6 total clinical quality measures:

3 required core measures (or 3 alternate core measures) and
3 additional measures (selected from a set of 38 clinical quality measures).

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what are the financing and insurance mechanisms for US healthcare?

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Private: Employer-based or Privately purchased insurance
Public: Government Programs
1. State Employees
2. MC (elderly and certain disabled)
3. Medicaid and CHIP (indigent poor/children)

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NHI (national health insurance) example

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Canada, Great Britain

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NHI Description

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Government finances through taxes but care is rendered by private providers.

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Socialized Health Insurance Examples

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Germany, Israel, and Japan

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Socialized Health Insurance description

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Financed through government-mandated employer/employee contributions and delivered by private providers.

Government has overall control.

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What is an HIE
a network that shares EHRs across a community
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What are the benefits of an HIE?
1. Reduce duplicate test orders. 2. Avoid adverse drug interactions. 3. Reduce time spent looking for records.
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4 data types of an HIE
1. Lab results 2. Meds data 3. Allergy data 4. ED discharge summaries
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HIE Main Standards
``` HL7 SNOMED ICD9/10 CPT LOINC RXNorm ```
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what does PACS stand for?
Picture Archiving and Communication System
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What does PACS do?
$$$$$ Stores images from different modalities, indexes them for fast retrieval, has its own db plus metadata, and allows for transfer of images to different network locations. Multiple site/Simultaneous access.
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Example of an analog imaging modality
plain film/fluroscopy/ultrasound/angiography
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Example of digital imaging modality
MRI/CT
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CT xray
digital, sliced xray images like a loaf of bread, shows structure only
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Xray
Short, tight wavelength, one slice image
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PET
Positron emission Tomography - uses gamma rays | measures body functions like metabolism of an organ, blood flow, O2 use
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MRI
Uses magnets, radiowaves, and computer. no radiation.
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DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
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EDI
Electronic Data Interchange
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HIPAA 5010
New standard set around a billing transaction foundational to ICD-10 coding standards.
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Mapping ratio of ICD9 to ICD-10
One ICD-9 code can map to 100 ICD-10 codes.
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ICD-10 Code structure
Category - Etiology - Extension Code
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What is E&M?
Evaluation and Management
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How many levels of E & M are there?
4
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What are the 3 components of an E & M code?
1. History 2. Examination 3. MDM
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NCQA
National Committee for Quality Assurance
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HEDIS
Healthplan Employer Data and Information Set
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What does HEDIS do?
71 measures comparing the quality of care between different health plans.
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How does an INTERFACED SYSTEM work?
Separate software and databases linked to a computer network and exchange information with other HC Systems. Can be from different vendors.
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How does an INTEGRATED SYSTEM work?
Shared common database. Same Vendor.
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RAC
Recovery Audit Contractors
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What is the purpose of an AGING REPORT?
To monitor Accounts Receivable.
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PCE
Partially Compensable Event
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What is PCMH stand for?
Patient-Centered Medical Home
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What is a PCMH?
A patient-centered medical home is a way of organizing primary care to emphasize care coordination.
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What does NCQA do?
This private, not-for-profit organization provides programs and services to improve care quality through quality standards and performance measures.
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How is NCQAs performance measured?
Statistics that track quality of care as delivered by the nation's health plans.
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What is the MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE?
A group of experts that advise Congress.
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What drove many of the recent doctor-hospital mergers?
Medicare's disparate pay policies.
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What is VBR?
Value-Based Reimbursement.
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What is Wellcentive's population health management technology?
* Cloud-based, scalable, customizable technology and services. * For providers, health organizations, and payers * To help measure and report performance toward VBR (value-based reimbursement).
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In Value-Based Payment, what does VALUE equal?
Value = Quality/Cost