Ch1 Vocab

Question 1

Acute care

Answer 1

Medical care of a limited duration that is provided in an inpatient hospital setting to diagnose and treat an injury or a short-term illness

Question 2

Ambulatory Care

Answer 2

Preventive or corrective healthcare services provided on a nonresident basis in a provider’s office, clinic setting, or a hospital outpatient setting,

Question 3

American College of Surgeons (ACS)

Answer 3

The scientific and educational association of surgeons formed to improve the quality of surgical care by setting high standards for surgical education and practice

Question 4

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

Answer 4

The purpose of this act is to include the following: 1 To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery. 2 To assist those most impacted by the recession. 3. To provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health.4 To invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long=term economic benefits 5 To stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases

Question 5

Behavioral healthcare

Answer 5

A broad array of psychiatric services provided in acute, long-term, and ambulatory care settings; includes treatment of mental disorders, chemical dependency, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities, as well as cognitive rehabilitation services.

Question 6

Continuum of care

Answer 6

The range of healthcare services provided to patients, from routine ambulatory care to intensive acute care; the emphasis is on treating individual patients at the level of care required by their course of treatment with the assurance of communication between caregivers

Question 7

Emergency and Trauma care

Answer 7

The medical-surgical care provided to individuals whose injuries or illnesses require urgent care to address conditions that could be life threatening or disabling is not treated immediately

Question 8

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act 2010 (HCERA)

Answer 8

A federal law enacted by Congress through reconciliation in order to make changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HCERA was signed into law by President Obama on march 30 2010

Question 9

Hospice Care

Answer 9

A special way of caring for people who are terminally ill, and for their family. This care includes physical care and counseling.

Question 10

Hospitalist

Answer 10

A doctor who primarily takes care of patients when they are in a hospital. This doctor will take over your care from your primary doctor when you are in the hospital, keep your primary doctor informed about your progress, and will return you to the care of your primary doctor when you leave the hospital

Question 11

Hybrid health record

Answer 11

a combination of paper and electronic records; a health record that includes both paper and electronic elements.

Question 12

Inpatient

Answer 12

a patient who is provided with room, board, and continuous general nursing services in an area of an acute care facility where patients generally stay at least overnight

Question 13

Integrated healthcare network

Answer 13

1. A system that combines the financial and clinical aspects of healthcare and uses a group of healthcare providers, selected on the basis of quality and cost management criteria, to furnish comprehensive health services across the continuum of care. 2. An organizational arrangement of a network of health providers that may include hospitals, physicians, and health maintenance organizations that provides coordinated services along the continuum of care from ambulatory, acute, and long-term care and may extend across a geographical regions.

Question 14

Long-term acute care

Answer 14

the medical care provided to individuals who are clinically complex and have multiple acute and chronic conditions requiring an average length of stay greater than 25 days in long-term care hospitals certified as acute-care hospitals

Question 15

Long-term care

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a variety of services that help people with health or personal needs and activities of daily living over a period of time. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, or in various types of facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Most long-term care is custodial care. In general these services are not reimbursed by Medicare if this is the only kind of care you need

Question 16

Major diagnostic category (MDC)

Answer 16

Under diagnosis-related groups one of 25 categories based on single or multipole organ systems into which all diseases and disorders relating to that system are classified.

Question 17

Medicaid

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a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state, but most healthcare costs are covered if a patient qualifies for both Medicare and Medicaid.

Question 18

Medical specialties

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a group of clinical specialties that concentrates on the provision of nonsurgical care by physicians who received advanced training in internal medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, endocrinology, psychiatry, oncology, nephrology, neurology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, dermatology, radiology, and nuclear medicine, among many other concentrations.

Question 19

Medicare

Answer 19

a federally funded health program established in 1965 to assist with the medical care costs of Americans 65 years of age and older as well as other individuals entitled to Social Security benefits owning to their disabilities.

Question 20

Medicare severity-diagnosis related groups (MS-DRGs)

Answer 20

The US government’s 2007 revision of the DRG system, the MS-DRG system better accounts for severity of illness and resource consumption

Question 21

Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA)

Answer 21

Sets the annual and lifetime benefits equal to those for medical and surgical benefits provided if mental health benefits are provided by an employer

Question 22

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

Answer 22

The principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information, healthcare. Is located within the Office of the Security for the US Department of Health and Human Services

Question 23

Outpatient

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a patient who receives ambulatory care services in a hospital-based clinic or department

Question 24

Patient-centered medical home (PCMH)

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a program to provide comprehensive primary care that partners physicians with the patient and their family to allow better access to healthcare and improved outcomes.

Question 25

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

Answer 25

The product of the healthcare reform agenda of the Democratic 111th Congress and the Obama administration, The act is designed at increasing the rate of health insurance coverage for American and reducing the overall costs of healthcare.

Question 26

Peer Review Improvement Act

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An act that redesigned the professional standards review organization program. Hospital began to review medical necessity and appropriateness of hospitalizations prior or admission.

Question 27

Personal Health Record (PHR)

Answer 27

An electronic or paper health record maintained and updated by an individual for themselves; a tool that individuals can use to collect, track, and share past and current information about their health or the health of someone in their care.

Question 28

Primary Care

Answer 28

a basic level of care usually given by doctors who work with general and family medicine, internal medicine, pregnant people and children.

Question 29

Prospective Payment Act

Answer 29

Defined the prospective payment system and the use of diagnosis related groups as the methodology for inpatient care.

Question 30

Rehabilitation Care

Answer 30

Services ordered by a physician to assist patients in recovering from an illness or injury. Services include physical, occupational, and speech therapies.

Question 31

Secondary Care

Answer 31

a general term for healthcare services provided by a specialist at the request of the primary care physician.

Question 32

Skilled nursing care

Answer 32

The professional nursing care and related medical, therapeutic, psychosocial, and personal services provided in a residential setting to individuals recovering from injuries or illnesses or the residual effects of injuries or illnesses after the acute phase of the condition has be resolved.

Question 33

Surgical Specialties

Answer 33

A group of specialties that concentrate on the provision of surgical care by physicians who have received advanced training in areas such as anesthesiology, cardiovascular surgery, general surgery, neurosurgery, trauma surgery, another many other concentrations.

Question 34

Tertiary care

Answer 34

Care centered on the provision of highly specialized and technologically advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings

Question 35

Tethered record

Answer 35

Functions as a patient view into the provider’s electronic records such as in PHRs