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Acceptance testing ✔✔A type of testing that occurs after the go-live date
Access controls ✔✔A computer software program designed to prevent unauthorized use of
an information resource
Addressable standards ✔✔Must be evaluated by the entity to determine whether or not
the standard is reasonable and appropriate
Administrative information system ✔✔A system that manages the business of healthcare; is
the first information systems to be used in healthcare. The data collected in this system are
mainly financial or business-oriented in nature, rather than clinical
Administrative safeguards ✔✔Administrative actions, and policies and procedures, to manage the
selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of security measure to protect
electronic-protected health information and to manage the conduct of the covered entity's
workforce in relation to the protection of that information. (45 CFR 160, 162, and 164)
,Administrative simplification ✔✔Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the business
processes of healthcare by standardizing the EDI of administrative and financial transactions
and protects the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) that is transmitted
from one point to another
Alpha site ✔✔The first healthcare facility to implement the information system American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) The SDO for the United States and a representative to the
ISO
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) ✔✔Enacted to stimulate the US economy
during a recession that started in 2007. A significant portion of ARRA was dedicated to
expanding the use of HIT to improve the business efficiency and effectiveness of HCOs while
increasing patient safety and positive health outcomes. It also enacted an incentive program
known as Meaningful Use
Anesthesia information system ✔✔A system that collects information on preoperative,
operative, and postoperative anesthesia-related clinical information. This system follows the
patient through the surgical process
,Annotation ✔✔The ability to add to the image in some way; because the image may be a legal
document, the image itself cannot be altered; however, an overlay to the document will show
the annotation
ANSI Accredited Standards Committee X12N (ASC X12N) ✔✔Responsible for developing the
EDI standards used to share information needed for health insurance administrative transactions
Audit controls ✔✔The mechanisms that record and examine activity in information systems
Audit log ✔✔Or audit trail, an electronic footprint of the actions that occurred in a particular
file in an information system or that were performed by a specific individual
Audit trails ✔✔The record of information system activities, such as log-in, log-out,
unsuccessful log-ins, print, query, and other actions
Audit-reduction tools ✔✔Tools that review the audit trail and compare it to criteria specified
by the CE, which eliminates routine entries such as the periodic backups
, Authorship ✔✔The origination or creation of recorded information attributed to a
specific individual or entity acting at a particular time
Automated codebook encoder ✔✔An encoder that lists diagnoses and procedures in
alphabetic order much like the alphabetic index
Back-end speech recognition (BESR) ✔✔A speech recognition technology in which the
physician dictates in the traditional manner and an editor listens to the audio and reviews
the document created
Backscanning ✔✔The process of scanning past health records into the DMS so there is an
existing database of patient information, making the DMS valuable to the user from the first day
of implementation
Backward map ✔✔A map that links the two coding systems in the opposite direction,
moving from ICD-10 to ICD-9
Barcode medication administration record (BC-MAR) ✔✔See Electronic
medication administration record (EMAR)