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Abstracting

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Enter codes and other patients information into computer software.

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Accrediation

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Voluntary process that hospital does to demonstrate that it has met standards required by the law

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Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

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Oversees medical graduates

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Active

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Medical Staff Category. Delivers most hospital medical services, performs significant organizational and admin medical staff duties

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Agenda

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A list of all items of business to discuss.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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Implementation of Health Information Technologies

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Associate

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Medical Staff Category. Advancement to active category is being considered.

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Bylaws

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Rules and regulations established by a company for internal management

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

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Oversees Medicaid and Medicare.

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Chief Resident

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Final year of graduate school.

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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

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Rules that establishments must follow based on laws

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Consulting

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Medical Staff Category. Includes highly qualified practitioners available as consultants when needed

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Continuum of care

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A complete range of programs and services

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Courtesy

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Admits an occasional patient to the hopstial

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Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)

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five digit codes assigned to ambulatory procedures and purposes

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Deemed status

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To exceed or meet medicaid or medicare requirements of care. Pertaining to medical facilities to receive reimbursement.

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Deeming authority

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The Center of Medicaid & Medicare services. CMS

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Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

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Created Medicaid Integrity Program MIP, a program to detect fraud and abuse.

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Disaster recovery plan

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A plan that ensures appropriate responses to disasters.

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do not resuscitate (DNR)

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Alerts doctors and medical staff to not try to resuscitate someone if they stop breathing or their heart stops beating.

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Electronic Health Record (EHR)

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Records on a patient

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Electronic Signature

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All technological options available to authenticate a documents.

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Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

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Provide all patients with a medical screening examination (MSE) Stabilize any patients with an emergency medical condition. Transfer or accept appropriate patients as needed.

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Encoder

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Software tool for coders to select diagnostic and procedure codes.

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Coding
assigning codes to diagnosis, procedures, and services.
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For-Profit
Privately owned and excess income is divided amongst shareholders.
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Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
Places of care cannot refuse patients for potential diseases due to their genetic make up
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Governing board
Elected individuals of a hospital responsible for its operations and quality of care.
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Government-supported hospitals
Public hospitals. Not for profit. Support y local, regional, and federal taxes and operated in the latter.
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Groupers
Grouping diagnostic codes.
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HCPCS Level One and Two (National) codes
Codes for procedures and services
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Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB)
Combats fraud and abuse by recording practitioners actions.
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Health care proxy
A legal doc that assigns another person to make the medical decisions for someone if they become inapplicable to doing so themselves.
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Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Patient privacy and security act
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Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
Tool used by health plans to collect data and the quality of care and service they provide.
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Hill-Burton Act
1946. Federal funding to hospitals that became obsolete during the great depression. Provides care to patients unable to pay. Governed by The Department of Health and Human Services.
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Hippocrates
The father of western-medicine, the first to consider medicine and sciences separate from art and religion.
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Hippocratic Oath
The physician shall cause no harm. A set of medical ethics.
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Honorary
Medical Staff Category: Includes former members who are honored.
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Human Genome Project
1990. Studying of understanding all DNA sequencing in the body.
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Incomplete Record Processing
Arrangement of paper medical records
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Intern
First year grad student
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International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification, (ICD-10-CM)
Collection of diseases and injuries to classify diagnoses.
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Intranet
Private network used by an organization
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Licensure
A license to practice medicine, or operate
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Living Will
Contains a patients instructions about the use of life-sustaining treatment.
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Medicare
Government funded and state funded health insurance for the disabled, terminal, and elderly over 65.
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Medical Transcription
transcription of dictated reports.
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Medicaid
Government and State funded healthcare for those in lack of resources, and low incomes.
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Medicare Prescription Drug improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
Provides different kinds of medicaid healthcare plans
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Medieval Medicine
Was the kind of medicine practiced in the middle ages
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Middle Ages
Medical Hospitals to care for the sick were formed by nuns in churches. Otherwise medical care was for the rich
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Modern Medicine
Study of disease processes and treatments. Scientific based evidences.
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National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
Background information and checks on practitioners
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Not-for-profit
Excess income is reinvested in the facility.
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ORYX initiative
Monitors surveys and creates outcomes with the data to assist in standards
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Paleopathology
Study of human remains
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Patient Self-Determination Act
Informed consent on medical procedures, and advanced medical decisions.
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Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)
Financial for eligible professionals to partake in voluntary quality reporting programs
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Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Characterized by the supernatural in an attempt to explain changes in bodily function.
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Primary Care
Preventative and acute care. First point of contact of care services.
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Proprietary Hosptials
For profit hospitals.
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Public Hosptials
Not for profit hospitals run by local and federal taxes.
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Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)
CMS organization that reviews CMS beneficiaries for standards and improvement suggestions
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Quaternary Care
Extension of tertiary care, advanced levels of specialized medicine and specialized care
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Record Circulation
In a paper record system, its the retrieval of patients records
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Regulation
Interpretation of a law
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Renaissance Medicine
Beginning of modern medicine, meaning based on education rather their spiritual beliefs. Rebirth of medical education.
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Resident
Completed internship, focusing in a speciality.
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Secondary Care
Referred by a primary care physician to a hospital or medical specialist.
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Shared Visions- New Pathways
Scoring and accreditation process of standards
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State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Health insurance for infants, kids and teens.
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State Department of Health
Issues medical licenses
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Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
Essentially made it possible for children under the age of 19 with certain disabilities to receive medical care without counting their parents incomes.
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Triage
Organized methods of identifying and treating patients according to urgency of care required
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Universal Chart Order
Arrangement of patients paper records
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Teaching Hosptials
Can be for profit and not for profit. 24 hour physician care with latest therapies.
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Telehealth
Telecommunication technology to support deliver health-related-services at a distance.
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Telemedicine
Clinical services that are provided remotely.
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Tertiary Care
Services provided by a specialized hospitals equipped with diagnostic and treatment facilities not at most hospitals.
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Voluntary Hospitals
Not-for-profit, religiously affiliated.
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Hospital Admin
Finances, Information resources management, overseeing specific departments.
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Medical Staff
Licensed physicians and other providers such as nurses, practitioners, etc.
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Hospitalists
Physician who work in a hospital setting.

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