Point of Care – Diagnostic testing, examination, or consultation at or near the site of patient care. The driving notion behind Point of Care treatment is to bring resources conveniently and immediately to the patient. This increases the likelihood that the patient will receive the best possible care in a timely and efficient manner.
E-Prescribing – E-Prescriptions allow a provider to electronically transmit accurate, error-free, and understandable prescriptions directly to the pharmacy from the point of care.
HIPPA – Title I of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.
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Formulary compliance –
EMR - An electronic medical record (EMR) is a computerized legal medical
record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital and or doctor's office.
EHR - An electronic health record (EHR) refers to an individual patient's medical record in digital format. Electronic health record systems co-ordinate the storage and retrieval of individual records over a network. It may be made up of electronic medical records (EMRs) from many locations and/or sources.
IPA - An independent practice association (or IPA) is an association of independent physicians, or other organization that contracts with independent physicians, and provides services to managed care organizations on a negotiated per capita rate, flat retainer fee, or negotiated medical record basis.
CCHIT - Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) (CCHIT) is a private not-for-profit organization that serves as a recognized US certification authority for electronic
health records (EHR) and their electronic health records.
CMS - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program(SCHIP), and health
insurance portability standards.
MIPPA - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
GCodes - Gcodes are HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System) codes that were developed to enable reporting of data for the calculation of quality measures. These codes supplement the usual claims data with clinical data that can be used to measure quality of services provided to beneficiaries. Each of the quality measures is assigned a G-code.
PQRI - Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
Interoperability - Interoperability is a property referring to and the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate).
Stark Laws - Stark law governs physician self-referral for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
CAPEX - Capital expenditures are expenditures creating future benefits. A capital expenditure is incurred when a business spends money either to buy fixed assets or to add to the value of an existing fixed asset with a useful life that extends beyond the taxable yea
Medication reconciliation - A formal process of identifying the most complete and accurate list of medications a patient is taking and using that list to provide correct medications for the patient anywhere within the health care system.