HIT Flashcards
What are the 5 National Priorities for MU.
- Improve quality, safety, and efficacy of care while reducing health disparities
- Engage patients/families in their care
- Promote public/population health.
- Improve care coordination.
- Promote the privacy and security of EHR
CQM
Clinical Quality Measure
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (1996)
Requires payors and Medicare to comply with EDI standards.
HITECH
Health information technology for economic and clinical health
ONC
Office of national coordinator for health information technology
What is the HITECH act?
2009 law signed under ARRA which created MU
What is Pay for Performance? (P4P) (Value-Based Purchasing)
A payment model that rewards healthcare providers for better health outcomes.
what are categories of care?
they align with the 5 national priorities
what does INTEROPERABILITY refer to?
Using technology to exchange key pieces of health information securely with a goal of obtaining the right information in the right context.
what are the ONC defined framework for a set of building blocks that support system interoperability?
vocabulary and code sets content structure transport security services
CCHIT
certified commission for health information technology - independent, non profit with a public mission of accelerating the adoption of robust, interoperable HIT
Define MU
A qualification to receive federal funding for HIT (emr)
2015
Last year of eligibility to achieve MU incentives.
CAH
Critical Access Hospital
MU 2 - How long to meet requirements.
2 full years
Eligible hospitals vs Eligible professionals in schedule?
EPs = Calendar year
Hospitals and CAH = federal fiscal year
MU General requirements
Menu set + Core set of objectives specific to EPs or hospitals and CAHs
CMS MU specification sheet
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
CQM requirements for EPs
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).
what are the financing and insurance mechanisms for US healthcare?
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)
NHI (national health insurance) example
Canada, Great Britain
NHI Description
Government finances through taxes but care is rendered by private providers.
Socialized Health Insurance Examples
Germany, Israel, and Japan
Socialized Health Insurance description
Financed through government-mandated employer/employee contributions and delivered by private providers.
Government has overall control.