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Acute Care Hospital

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Hospital Site with inpatient beds.

KLAS reports based on sizing:

> 200 beds = large
<200 beds = community

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Clinical System

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Core medical system at a site. Also referred to as a CIS (Clinical Information System)

See also:
CDR - Clinical Data Repository

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Ambulatory

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Physician practice or clinic; site with no beds.

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Ancillary System

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An additional small system that branches off a larger system: examples in HIT include laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, surgery.

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Blue Book

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Commercially marketed reference of hospitals in the U.S.

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Farzad Mostashari

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National Coordinator for HIT.

See also ONCHIT

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Evaluation

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Information from a provider (same as a numeric survey)

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Financial System

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Core financial system at a site

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Go-live

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Date when a product is scheduled to be completely functional/operational.

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Good To Great

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Business book by Jim Collins. Often referred to at KLAS; hedgehog concept comes from this book.

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Implementation

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Time period when a product is being installed in a facility (period between contract signing and going live)

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Kathleen Sebelius

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21st secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Leapfrog Group

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Group of large health care purchasers organized to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety and overall value of healthcare to Americans.

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Live

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Status of a product that is completely functional.

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Made To Stick

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Business book by Chip Heath and Dean Heath often referred to at KLAS; stickiness concept comes from this book.

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Market Segment

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Internal KLAS term. Groups of similar products that provide comparable functionality Laboratory and Pharmacy are two examples of market segments.

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Medicaid

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State administered health insurance program available only to certain low-income individuals and families who fit into an eligibility group that is recognized by federal and state law.

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Medicare

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Federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and older, some disables people under age 65, and people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure treated with dialysis or a transplant.)

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Numeric

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Internal KLAS term. Numeric ratings provided by a healthcare provider for software products, medical equipment or professional services used.

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Piggyback

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Also referred to as a specialty evaluation. This provides a deep dive into a specific vendor/product/market segment and is a separate evaluation.

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Platinum KLAS/PK

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The KLAS external display of performance data.

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Problem List

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Created by Lawrence Weed in the 1960s as part of his recommendation for a problem-oriented medical record. This is a commonly accepted and used part of the medical record today. At a high level, the problem list states the most important health problems facing the patient. Beyond the patient visit, it can be used to identify disease-specific populations.

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Product

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What a vendor produces/sells; what we rate

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Professional Services Firm

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Any vendor that performs consulting type services, including clinical/financial implementation supportive/principal; software vendor section; full IT Outsourcing; Departmental Outsourcing; Technical Consulting; Staff Augmentation; Planning and Assessment.

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Project Razor

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Internal KLAS term. Program for awarding points to researches who collect numeric ratings and verbal commentary from providers regarding products and services they use.

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Provider

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Any organization that provides healthcare to patients (hospitals, clinic, IDN)

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Provider Contact

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A person employed at a healthcare facility such as a hospital, clinic or IDN.

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Technical Assessment/TA

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Internal KLAS term. usually submitted by a vendor for a project. Sheet details hardware, operating system, programming languages, software release date, methodology interface capabilities, etc.

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Top 20 Report

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SW and PSF: Published December; 12-month snapshot, gives overall market segment; also Mid Year Top 20 Report published in June but no Best in KLAS awards. ME Top published in June with the Mid-Year published in December.

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Vendor

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Organization that sells hardware and/or software to healthcare providers.

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Vendor Overview/VO

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Internal KLAS term. Usually submitted by a vendor for a project. Sheet details product history, number of product installations, product strengths, strategy for partnering and support, etc.

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Verbal

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Internal KLAS term. Verbal commentary provided by a healthcare provider for a product(s) and/or services that they use.

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