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Accountable Care Organization - answers a network of doctors and hospitals that
shares responsibility for managing the quality and cost of care provided to a group of
patients
Accounts Payable - answers Money that is owed to vendors/suppliers
Accounts Receivable - answers Money that is owed to the institution
Assests - answers property items that can be converted to cash
Business Intelligence - answers automated tools for analyzing massive amounts of data
charge description master file - answers list of all prices provided to patients for billing
claims denial management - answers tracking and follow up of denials for payment
claims processing and management - answers submission of insurance claims or bill t o
third party
Financial information system (FIS) - answers system that records,stores and manages
financial operations within an organization
Fixed Assets Management - answers management of objects that cannot be easily
converted to cash
General Ledger - answers listing of all financial transactions
Incentive Management - answers Use of monetary and point-based rewards for staff
who volunteer to meet institutional needs, such as staffing needs
Materials Management - answers storage, inventory control and operational
management of supplies, pharmaceuticals, equipment and other items used for patient
care
open shift management - answers web-based self scheduling
Patient Accounting - answers process for collecting and tracking debits and credits for
patient care
, Pay for Performance - answers strategy to pay healthcare providers for high quality care
Payroll - answers creates and disburses payment to emplyoees
Practice Management Systems (PMSs) - answers application designed to assist in the
management of a practice by collecting patient demographic information, insurance
information, appointment scheduling, reason for visit etc
Predictive Scheduling - answers scheduling based on a predictive model used to
forecast bed demand changed in patient acuity
Supply Chain Management (SCM) - answers acquisition, movement, storage, inventory
control, quality control and operational management of supplies
Supply Item Master File - answers list of all items used in the delivery of care
Transaction history - answers log of all material transactions
Vendor master file - answers list of all manufacturers and distributors who provide
materials need for the healthcare organization
What is an e-Patient? - answers Patient to take an active role in their health and
healthcare by being equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged In decisions about
their health and healthcare.
Who's work is seen as the impetus of the e-patient movement? - answers Dr. Thomas
Ferguson
What are some characteristics of the e-patients? - answers Characterized as one who
uses technology to actively partake in his or her health care and manages the
responsibility for his or her own health and wellness. The patients are digitally enabled,
seeking information, sharing their knowledge, and connecting with others. E patients
manage health decisions on a daily basis and use the Internet and digital devices to
supplement his or her health journey.
What is eHealth? - answers Use of emerging information and communication
technology, especially the Internet to improve or enable health and healthcare.
Conceptually the term E health was considered a bridge for both clinical and nonclinical
sectors capable of supporting health related tools for individuals and populations. A
broad concept used to describe Internet or web-based activities that relate to
healthcare.
The IOM report, crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st-century -
answers Focused attention more broadly on the multiple dimensions of quality and
safety concerns in need of fundamental change across the US healthcare system.
Scenario narrow the quality chasm, therefore offered six specific areas that represent
what healthcare ought to be for all Americans.