Terms Flashcards
Acute Care Hospital
Hospital Site with inpatient beds.
KLAS reports based on sizing:
> 200 beds = large
<200 beds = community
Clinical System
Core medical system at a site. Also referred to as a CIS (Clinical Information System)
See also:
CDR - Clinical Data Repository
Ambulatory
Physician practice or clinic; site with no beds.
Ancillary System
An additional small system that branches off a larger system: examples in HIT include laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, surgery.
Blue Book
Commercially marketed reference of hospitals in the U.S.
Farzad Mostashari
National Coordinator for HIT.
See also ONCHIT
Evaluation
Information from a provider (same as a numeric survey)
Financial System
Core financial system at a site
Go-live
Date when a product is scheduled to be completely functional/operational.
Good To Great
Business book by Jim Collins. Often referred to at KLAS; hedgehog concept comes from this book.
Implementation
Time period when a product is being installed in a facility (period between contract signing and going live)
Kathleen Sebelius
21st secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Leapfrog Group
Group of large health care purchasers organized to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety and overall value of healthcare to Americans.
Live
Status of a product that is completely functional.
Made To Stick
Business book by Chip Heath and Dean Heath often referred to at KLAS; stickiness concept comes from this book.
Market Segment
Internal KLAS term. Groups of similar products that provide comparable functionality Laboratory and Pharmacy are two examples of market segments.
Medicaid
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.
Medicare
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.)
Numeric
Internal KLAS term. Numeric ratings provided by a healthcare provider for software products, medical equipment or professional services used.
Piggyback
Also referred to as a specialty evaluation. This provides a deep dive into a specific vendor/product/market segment and is a separate evaluation.
Platinum KLAS/PK
The KLAS external display of performance data.
Problem List
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.
Product
What a vendor produces/sells; what we rate
Professional Services Firm
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.
Project Razor
Internal KLAS term. Program for awarding points to researches who collect numeric ratings and verbal commentary from providers regarding products and services they use.
Provider
Any organization that provides healthcare to patients (hospitals, clinic, IDN)
Provider Contact
A person employed at a healthcare facility such as a hospital, clinic or IDN.
Technical Assessment/TA
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.
Top 20 Report
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.
Vendor
Organization that sells hardware and/or software to healthcare providers.
Vendor Overview/VO
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.
Verbal
Internal KLAS term. Verbal commentary provided by a healthcare provider for a product(s) and/or services that they use.
