MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Flashcards
SKILL (13 cards)
A comprehensive view of the patient’s complete medical history designed to be shared with authorized providers and staff from more than one organization.
EMR - ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
The process of sharing patient-level electronic health information between different organizations.
HIE - HELATH INFORMATION EXCHANGE
Information from the electronic health record (EHR) that are routinely shared with the patient—such as personal identifiers, contact information, health provider information, problem list, medication history, allergies, immunizations, and lab and test results.
PHR - PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD
Employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care, provide professional and patient health-related training, and support healthcare administration.
TELEHEALTH
The acquiring of data, sound, images, and video from a patient and then transmitting everything to a medical specialist for later evaluation.
STORE AND FORWARD TELEMEDICINE
A form of telemedicine in which patients and healthcare providers are present at different sites at the same time; often involves a videoconference link between the two sites.
LIVE TELEMEDICINE
Also called home monitoring, it is the regular, ongoing, accurate measurement of an individual’s vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate) and other health measures (e.g., glucose levels for a diabetic) and the transmission of this data to a healthcare provider.
REMOTE MONITORING
3 CAUSES FOR FOR INCREASED HEALTH CARE
AGING
GOV’T POLICIES
LIFESTYLE CHANGES
A system that enables physicians to place orders (for drugs, laboratory tests, radiology, physical therapy) electronically, with the orders transmitted directly to the recipient.
CPOE - COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY
A process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcare-related decision making through the use of clinical knowledge and patient-specific information to improve healthcare delivery.
CDS - CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT
A program to incentivize physicians and hospitals to implement such systems. Under this act, increased Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements are made to doctors and hospitals that demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic health record (EHR) technology.
HITECH - HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR ECONOMIC AND CLINICAL HEALTH ACT
A measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the number of labor hours used in producing those goods and services.
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
A component of telehealth that provides medical care to people at a location different from the healthcare providers.
TELEMEDICINE
