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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7
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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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13
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CAH

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Critical Access Hospital

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14
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MU 2 - How long to meet requirements.

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2 full years

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15
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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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17
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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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18
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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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19
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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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20
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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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22
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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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24
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What is an HIE

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a network that shares EHRs across a community

25
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What are the benefits of an HIE?

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  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

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  1. Lab results
  2. Meds data
  3. Allergy data
  4. ED discharge summaries
27
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HIE Main Standards

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HL7
SNOMED
ICD9/10
CPT
LOINC
RXNorm
28
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what does PACS stand for?

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Picture Archiving and Communication System

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What does PACS do?

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$$$$$
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

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plain film/fluroscopy/ultrasound/angiography

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Example of digital imaging modality

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MRI/CT

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CT xray

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digital, sliced xray images like a loaf of bread, shows structure only

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Xray

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Short, tight wavelength, one slice image

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PET

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Positron emission Tomography - uses gamma rays

measures body functions like metabolism of an organ, blood flow, O2 use

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MRI

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Uses magnets, radiowaves, and computer. no radiation.

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DICOM

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

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EDI

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Electronic Data Interchange

38
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HIPAA 5010

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New standard set around a billing transaction foundational to ICD-10 coding standards.

39
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Mapping ratio of ICD9 to ICD-10

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One ICD-9 code can map to 100 ICD-10 codes.

40
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ICD-10 Code structure

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Category - Etiology - Extension Code

41
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What is E&M?

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Evaluation and Management

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How many levels of E & M are there?

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4

43
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What are the 3 components of an E & M code?

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  1. History
  2. Examination
  3. MDM
44
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NCQA

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National Committee for Quality Assurance

45
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HEDIS

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Healthplan Employer Data and Information Set

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What does HEDIS do?

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71 measures comparing the quality of care between different health plans.

47
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How does an INTERFACED SYSTEM work?

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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?

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Shared common database. Same Vendor.

49
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RAC

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Recovery Audit Contractors

50
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What is the purpose of an AGING REPORT?

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To monitor Accounts Receivable.

51
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PCE

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Partially Compensable Event

52
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What is PCMH stand for?

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Patient-Centered Medical Home

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What is a PCMH?

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A patient-centered medical home is a way of organizing primary care to emphasize care coordination.

52
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What does NCQA do?

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This private, not-for-profit organization provides programs and services to improve care quality through quality standards and performance measures.

52
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How is NCQAs performance measured?

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Statistics that track quality of care as delivered by the nation’s health plans.

52
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What is the MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE?

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A group of experts that advise Congress.

52
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What drove many of the recent doctor-hospital mergers?

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Medicare’s disparate pay policies.

52
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What is VBR?

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Value-Based Reimbursement.

53
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What is Wellcentive’s population health management technology?

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  • Cloud-based, scalable, customizable technology and services.
  • For providers, health organizations, and payers
  • To help measure and report performance toward VBR (value-based reimbursement).
54
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In Value-Based Payment, what does VALUE equal?

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Value = Quality/Cost