BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
Telehealth - -A broad term having to do they need from the ASP. New releases, such as
with providing health care services from a software upgrades, are generally included in the
distance. A direct service provided from a price.
distance to clients/patients, consultations to other
health care professionals, education related to
health care to clients or other health care Asynchronous - -Term describing store and
professionals, and coordination of care (helping forward transmission of medical images and/or
integrated physical and behavioral health data because the data transfer takes place over a
concerns to improve the outcomes for both, period of time, and typically in separate time
reducing unnecessary readmissions, reducing frames. The transmission typically does not take
medication errors, treatment errors, wrong place simultaneously. This is the opposite of
diagnosis). synchronous (see below).
Telemental health - -Providing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - -A
psychotherapy directly to a client when the telecommunications standard to support voice,
clinician and the client are not in the same video and data communications. The mode uses
location. Telemental health and mental health asynchronous time-division multiplexing and
services are not separate services. It is the same encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells rather
service, provided by different means. than packets or frames.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - -A Authentication - -A method of verifying the
healthcare organization characterized by a identity of a person sending or receiving
payment and care delivery model that seeks to information using passwords, keys and other
tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics automated identifiers.
and reductions in the total cost of care for an
assigned population of patients. (Wikipedia)
Bandwidth - -A measure of the information
carrying capacity of a communications channel; a
Analog - -A continuous signal where the practical limit to the size, cost, and capability of a
time varying variable is represented by another telemedicine service.
time varying quantity. It differs from a digital
signal where a continuous quantity is
represented by a discrete function that only takes Basic Rate Interface - -An ISDN (see
on one of a finite number of values. below) configuration that provides two bearer (B)
channels at 64 kilobits/second (kbit/s) each and
one data (D) channel at 16 kbit/s. B channels are
Application Service Provider (ASP) - -An for voice data and D channels for any
ASP hosts a variety of applications on a central combination of data, control/signaling, and X.25
server. For a fee, customers can access the packet networking. B channels can be
applications over secure Internet connections or aggregated to provide128 kbit/s.
a private network. This means that they do not
need to purchase, install or maintain the software
themselves; instead they rent the applications Bits Per Second (bps) - -Number of
,BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
electronic data bits conveyed or processed per
unit of time.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- -A federal agency within the United States
Bluetooth Wireless - -An industrial Department of Health and Human Services
specification for wireless personal area networks (DHHS) that administers the Medicare program
(PANs) that provides the means to connect and and works in partnership with state governments
exchange information between devices such as to administer Medicaid, the State Children's
mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Health
cameras and video game consoles over a Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio (HIPAA) standards. (Wikipedia)
frequency. The specifications are developed and
licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/about- Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit
bluetooth-sig.aspx). (CSU/DSU) - -A digital-interface device for
connecting Data Terminal Equipment devices
(DTE) (e.g., router) to a digital circuit (e.g., T1
Bridge - -Device for linking multiple line). CSU connects to the network and the DSU
videoconferencing sites in a single handles the DTE interface.
videoconference session. It is also often referred
to as a multipoint control unit (MCU).
Circuit Switched Network - -A method for
implementing a telecommunications network
Broadband - -Communications (e.g., where two nodes have a dedicated
broadcast television, microwave, and satellite) communications channel through the network for
capable of carrying a wide range of frequencies; communication, guaranteeing full bandwidth for
refers to transmission of signals in a frequency- the session.
modulated fashion over a segment of the total
bandwidth available, thereby permitting
simultaneous transmission of several messages. Class of Service (CoS) - -Used in data and
voice protocols to differentiate payloads in the
transmitted packets to help assign priorities to the
Cascading - -Means to accommodate data payload.
more videoconference participants than using
one MCU by joining another MCU into a session
hosted by the primary MCU. Clinical Decision Support System (CCDS) -
-Systems (usually electronically based and
interactive) that provide clinicians, staff, patients,
Certification Commission for Health Information and other individuals with knowledge and person-
Technology (CCHIT) - -Founded in 2004 specific information, intelligently filtered and
with the public mission of accelerating the presented at appropriate times, to enhance
adoption of health IT, it certifies electronic health health and health care.
records (EHRs) using comprehensive, practical (http://healthit.ahrq.gov/images/jun09cdsreview/0
definitions of what capabilities were needed in 9_0069_ef.html)
these systems. (http://www.cchit.org/)
,BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
original dataset (either lossless or lossy) to
Clinical Information System - -Hospital- reduce image processing, transmission times,
based information system designed to collect bandwidth requirements, and storage
and organize data relating exclusively to requirements. Some compression techniques
information regarding the care of a patient rather result in the loss of some information while others
than administrative data. . do not, which may or may not be clinically
important.
Cloud computing - -The use of computing
resources (hardware and software) that are Diagnostic Equipment (Scopes, Cameras and
delivered as a service over a network (typically Other Peripheral Devices) - -A piece of
the Internet). The name comes from the use of a hardware or device not part of the central
cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the computer (e.g., digitizers, stethoscope, or
complex infrastructure it contains in system camera) that can provide medical data input to or
diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote accept output from the computer.
services with a user's data, software and
computation. (Wikipedia)
Digital - -Data technology using discrete
values as opposed to continuous or analog
CODEC - -Acronym for coder-decoder. signals.
This is the videoconferencing device that
converts analog video and audio signals to digital
video and audio code and vice versa. CODECs Digital Camera (still images) - -A camera
typically compress the digital code to conserve that stores images digitally rather than recording
bandwidth on a telecommunications path. them on film allowing data to be downloaded to a
computer system, manipulated with a graphics
program and printed or transmitted electronically.
Compressed video - -Video images that It is typically used to take still images of a patient
have been encoded using fewer bits of for dermatology, ophthalmology, and wound care.
information than the original dataset (either
lossless or lossy) to reduce the amount of
bandwidth needed to capture the necessary Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine
information so that the information can be sent (DICOM) - -The international standard for
over a network. medical images and related information (ISO
12052). DICOM consists of a set of protocols
describing how images are identified, formatted,
Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) - - transmitted and displayed that is vendor-
An electronic form of individual patient independent. It was developed by the American
information designed to provide access to College of Radiology and the National Electronic
complete and accurate patient data. Manufacturers Association
(http://medical.nema.org/).
Data Compression - -A method to reduce
the volume of data using encoding that results in Digital Signal-X Transmission Standards (DSx) -
the data having fewer bits of information than the -A series of standard digital transmission
, BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
rates or levels based on DS0, a transmission rate service is located at the time the service is
of 64 Kbps (i.e., bandwidth normally used for one provided via telecommunications system.
telephone voice channel). (http://www.medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-
Program-Information/By-Topics/Delivery-
Systems/Telemedicine.html) Other common
Digital Signature - -Mathematical scheme names for this term include hub site, specialty
for authenticating digital messages or site, provider/physician site and referral site. The
documents. Valid signatures give the recipient site may also be referred to as the consulting
evidence that the message was created by a site.
known sender and not altered in transit.
Document Camera - -Visual presenters,
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) - - visualizers, digital overheads, or docucams, are
Technologies providing internet access by real-time image capture devices for displaying an
transmitting digital data over local telephone object to a large audience. Like an opaque
networks. The data bit rate typically is 256 kbit/s projector it is able to magnify and project images
to 40 Mbit/s in the direction to the customer of three-dimensional objects as well as
(downstream) depending on technology, line transparencies. It can display written or typed
conditions, and service-level implementation. information (e.g., lab results), photographs,
graphics (e.g., ECG strips) and in some cases x-
rays.
Disease Management - -A continuous
coordinated health care process that seeks to
manage and improve the health status of a e-Pharmacy - -The use of electronic
carefully defined patient population over the information and communication technology to
entire course of a disease (e.g., Congestive provide and support comprehensive pharmacy
Heart Failure, Diabetes Mellitus) The patient services when distance separates the
populations targeted are high-risk, high-cost participants.
patients with chronic conditions that depend on
appropriate care for proper maintenance.
eHealth - -Healthcare practice supported
by electronic processes and communication.
Distance Learning - -The incorporation of
video and audio technologies, allowing students
to "attend" classes and training sessions that are Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - -The
being presented at a remote location. Distance sending and receiving of data directly between
learning systems are usually interactive and are trading partners without paper or human
a tool in the delivery of training and education to intervention.
widely dispersed students, or in instances in
which the instructor cannot travel to the student's
site. Electronic Health Record (EHR) - -A
systematic collection of electronic health
information about individual patients or
Distant Site - -Site at which the physician populations that is recorded in digital format and
or other licensed practitioner delivering the capable of being shared across health care
Telehealth - -A broad term having to do they need from the ASP. New releases, such as
with providing health care services from a software upgrades, are generally included in the
distance. A direct service provided from a price.
distance to clients/patients, consultations to other
health care professionals, education related to
health care to clients or other health care Asynchronous - -Term describing store and
professionals, and coordination of care (helping forward transmission of medical images and/or
integrated physical and behavioral health data because the data transfer takes place over a
concerns to improve the outcomes for both, period of time, and typically in separate time
reducing unnecessary readmissions, reducing frames. The transmission typically does not take
medication errors, treatment errors, wrong place simultaneously. This is the opposite of
diagnosis). synchronous (see below).
Telemental health - -Providing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - -A
psychotherapy directly to a client when the telecommunications standard to support voice,
clinician and the client are not in the same video and data communications. The mode uses
location. Telemental health and mental health asynchronous time-division multiplexing and
services are not separate services. It is the same encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells rather
service, provided by different means. than packets or frames.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - -A Authentication - -A method of verifying the
healthcare organization characterized by a identity of a person sending or receiving
payment and care delivery model that seeks to information using passwords, keys and other
tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics automated identifiers.
and reductions in the total cost of care for an
assigned population of patients. (Wikipedia)
Bandwidth - -A measure of the information
carrying capacity of a communications channel; a
Analog - -A continuous signal where the practical limit to the size, cost, and capability of a
time varying variable is represented by another telemedicine service.
time varying quantity. It differs from a digital
signal where a continuous quantity is
represented by a discrete function that only takes Basic Rate Interface - -An ISDN (see
on one of a finite number of values. below) configuration that provides two bearer (B)
channels at 64 kilobits/second (kbit/s) each and
one data (D) channel at 16 kbit/s. B channels are
Application Service Provider (ASP) - -An for voice data and D channels for any
ASP hosts a variety of applications on a central combination of data, control/signaling, and X.25
server. For a fee, customers can access the packet networking. B channels can be
applications over secure Internet connections or aggregated to provide128 kbit/s.
a private network. This means that they do not
need to purchase, install or maintain the software
themselves; instead they rent the applications Bits Per Second (bps) - -Number of
,BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
electronic data bits conveyed or processed per
unit of time.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- -A federal agency within the United States
Bluetooth Wireless - -An industrial Department of Health and Human Services
specification for wireless personal area networks (DHHS) that administers the Medicare program
(PANs) that provides the means to connect and and works in partnership with state governments
exchange information between devices such as to administer Medicaid, the State Children's
mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Health
cameras and video game consoles over a Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio (HIPAA) standards. (Wikipedia)
frequency. The specifications are developed and
licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/about- Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit
bluetooth-sig.aspx). (CSU/DSU) - -A digital-interface device for
connecting Data Terminal Equipment devices
(DTE) (e.g., router) to a digital circuit (e.g., T1
Bridge - -Device for linking multiple line). CSU connects to the network and the DSU
videoconferencing sites in a single handles the DTE interface.
videoconference session. It is also often referred
to as a multipoint control unit (MCU).
Circuit Switched Network - -A method for
implementing a telecommunications network
Broadband - -Communications (e.g., where two nodes have a dedicated
broadcast television, microwave, and satellite) communications channel through the network for
capable of carrying a wide range of frequencies; communication, guaranteeing full bandwidth for
refers to transmission of signals in a frequency- the session.
modulated fashion over a segment of the total
bandwidth available, thereby permitting
simultaneous transmission of several messages. Class of Service (CoS) - -Used in data and
voice protocols to differentiate payloads in the
transmitted packets to help assign priorities to the
Cascading - -Means to accommodate data payload.
more videoconference participants than using
one MCU by joining another MCU into a session
hosted by the primary MCU. Clinical Decision Support System (CCDS) -
-Systems (usually electronically based and
interactive) that provide clinicians, staff, patients,
Certification Commission for Health Information and other individuals with knowledge and person-
Technology (CCHIT) - -Founded in 2004 specific information, intelligently filtered and
with the public mission of accelerating the presented at appropriate times, to enhance
adoption of health IT, it certifies electronic health health and health care.
records (EHRs) using comprehensive, practical (http://healthit.ahrq.gov/images/jun09cdsreview/0
definitions of what capabilities were needed in 9_0069_ef.html)
these systems. (http://www.cchit.org/)
,BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
original dataset (either lossless or lossy) to
Clinical Information System - -Hospital- reduce image processing, transmission times,
based information system designed to collect bandwidth requirements, and storage
and organize data relating exclusively to requirements. Some compression techniques
information regarding the care of a patient rather result in the loss of some information while others
than administrative data. . do not, which may or may not be clinically
important.
Cloud computing - -The use of computing
resources (hardware and software) that are Diagnostic Equipment (Scopes, Cameras and
delivered as a service over a network (typically Other Peripheral Devices) - -A piece of
the Internet). The name comes from the use of a hardware or device not part of the central
cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the computer (e.g., digitizers, stethoscope, or
complex infrastructure it contains in system camera) that can provide medical data input to or
diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote accept output from the computer.
services with a user's data, software and
computation. (Wikipedia)
Digital - -Data technology using discrete
values as opposed to continuous or analog
CODEC - -Acronym for coder-decoder. signals.
This is the videoconferencing device that
converts analog video and audio signals to digital
video and audio code and vice versa. CODECs Digital Camera (still images) - -A camera
typically compress the digital code to conserve that stores images digitally rather than recording
bandwidth on a telecommunications path. them on film allowing data to be downloaded to a
computer system, manipulated with a graphics
program and printed or transmitted electronically.
Compressed video - -Video images that It is typically used to take still images of a patient
have been encoded using fewer bits of for dermatology, ophthalmology, and wound care.
information than the original dataset (either
lossless or lossy) to reduce the amount of
bandwidth needed to capture the necessary Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine
information so that the information can be sent (DICOM) - -The international standard for
over a network. medical images and related information (ISO
12052). DICOM consists of a set of protocols
describing how images are identified, formatted,
Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) - - transmitted and displayed that is vendor-
An electronic form of individual patient independent. It was developed by the American
information designed to provide access to College of Radiology and the National Electronic
complete and accurate patient data. Manufacturers Association
(http://medical.nema.org/).
Data Compression - -A method to reduce
the volume of data using encoding that results in Digital Signal-X Transmission Standards (DSx) -
the data having fewer bits of information than the -A series of standard digital transmission
, BC-TMH Test Questions and Answers Rated A
rates or levels based on DS0, a transmission rate service is located at the time the service is
of 64 Kbps (i.e., bandwidth normally used for one provided via telecommunications system.
telephone voice channel). (http://www.medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-
Program-Information/By-Topics/Delivery-
Systems/Telemedicine.html) Other common
Digital Signature - -Mathematical scheme names for this term include hub site, specialty
for authenticating digital messages or site, provider/physician site and referral site. The
documents. Valid signatures give the recipient site may also be referred to as the consulting
evidence that the message was created by a site.
known sender and not altered in transit.
Document Camera - -Visual presenters,
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) - - visualizers, digital overheads, or docucams, are
Technologies providing internet access by real-time image capture devices for displaying an
transmitting digital data over local telephone object to a large audience. Like an opaque
networks. The data bit rate typically is 256 kbit/s projector it is able to magnify and project images
to 40 Mbit/s in the direction to the customer of three-dimensional objects as well as
(downstream) depending on technology, line transparencies. It can display written or typed
conditions, and service-level implementation. information (e.g., lab results), photographs,
graphics (e.g., ECG strips) and in some cases x-
rays.
Disease Management - -A continuous
coordinated health care process that seeks to
manage and improve the health status of a e-Pharmacy - -The use of electronic
carefully defined patient population over the information and communication technology to
entire course of a disease (e.g., Congestive provide and support comprehensive pharmacy
Heart Failure, Diabetes Mellitus) The patient services when distance separates the
populations targeted are high-risk, high-cost participants.
patients with chronic conditions that depend on
appropriate care for proper maintenance.
eHealth - -Healthcare practice supported
by electronic processes and communication.
Distance Learning - -The incorporation of
video and audio technologies, allowing students
to "attend" classes and training sessions that are Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - -The
being presented at a remote location. Distance sending and receiving of data directly between
learning systems are usually interactive and are trading partners without paper or human
a tool in the delivery of training and education to intervention.
widely dispersed students, or in instances in
which the instructor cannot travel to the student's
site. Electronic Health Record (EHR) - -A
systematic collection of electronic health
information about individual patients or
Distant Site - -Site at which the physician populations that is recorded in digital format and
or other licensed practitioner delivering the capable of being shared across health care
