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Ch3 Hlth Info Mngmt
Health Information Infrastructure and Systems
adverse drug event | ADE |
Agency for Healthcare Quality & Research | AHRQ |
American Health Information Community | AHIC |
America's Health Insurance Plan | AHIP |
Ambulatory Quality Alliance | AQA |
College of American Pathologists | CAP |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | CMS |
clinical decision support | CDS |
Connecting Communities for Better Health | CCBH |
Commission on the Certification for Health Information Technology | CCHIT |
Center for Information Technology Leadership | CITL |
computerized physicians order entry | CPOE |
Consolidated Health Informatics Standards | CHI |
Center for Health Transformation | CHT |
Department of Health & Human Services | DHHS |
Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine | DICOM |
Doctor's Office Quality Information Technology | DOQ-IT |
decision support system | DSS |
Electronic Health Records | EHRs |
Electronic Medical Record | EMR |
Electronic Prescribing | ERX |
Food & Drug Administration | FDA |
General Accounting Office | GAO |
Government Printing Office | GPO |
Health Information Exchange | HIE |
Health Information Technology | HIT |
Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration | HISPC |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act | HIPPA |
Health Information and Surveillance Systems Board | HISSB |
Health Level 7 | HL7 |
Health Resources and Services Administration | HRSA |
Human Gene Nomenclature | HUGH |
Institute of Medicine | IOM |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers 1073 | IEEE 1073 |
Laboratory Logical Observation Identifier Name Codes | LOINC |
National Council on Prescription Drug Programs | NCPCP |
National Center for Vital and Health Statistics | NCVHS |
National Drug File Reference Terminology | NDF-RT |
National Health Information Infrastructure | NHII |
National Health Information Network | NHIN |
National Resource Center | NRC |
Office of Management and Budget's Office | OMB |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology | ONC |
Office of Rural Health Policy | ORHP |
peer-to-peer | P2P |
personal health information | PHI |
personal health record | PHR |
Quality Improvement Organization | QIO |
request for information | RFI |
Regional Health Information Organizations | RHIOs |
return on investments | RIO |
Sub Network Organization | SNO |
Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms | SNOMED CT |
Standards Development Organizations | SDOS |
has been given responsibility for coordinating HIT efforts throughout federal government | ONC - Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
develop/implement nationwide interoperable HIT infrastructure, improve quality & efficiency of health care, & help consumers manage care/safety | goal of DHHS regarding HIT |
project that will provide basis for simplified/unified system for sharing/revising medical info among government agencies &their private health care providers/insurers | Consolidated Health Informatics Standards |
Consolidated Health Informatics Standards involves all federal agencies relating to health care, including | Dept. of Defense, Dept. Veteran's Affairs, CMS, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, & National Institutes for Health |
project intended to ensure communications capacity at all local/state health depts. through full Internet connectivity & training; enables ability to broadcast & receive health alerts | Health Alert Network |
Health Alert Network being developed by CDC as part of its | Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response Program |
played a leadership role in development of data standards, including CHI& NHII | DHHS - Department of Health & Human Services |
resulted in adoption of standards for federal HIT programs | CHI (Consolidated Health Informatics Standards) & NHII (National Health Information Infrastructure) initiatives |
collaborative effort to adopt health info interoperability standards, particularly health vocab & messaging standards, for implementation in federal systems | Consolidated Health Informatics - CHI |
on March 21, 2003 DHHS & Dept of Vet Affairs adopted | 5 uniform standards for electronic exchange of clinical health information |
messaging standards to ensure each federal agency can share info that will improve coordinated care for patients | Health Level 7 - HL7 |
standards for ordering drugs from retail pharmacies to standardized info between health care providers & pharmacies; already adopted under HIPPA | National Council on Prescription Drug Programs - NCPCP |
series of standards allowing providers to plug medical devices into info/computer systems in order to monitor info from intensive care through telehealth services | Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers 1073 - IEEE 1073 |
enables images/associated diagnostic info to be retrieved/transferred from various manufacturer's devices & medical staff workstations | Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine - DICOM |
standardize electronic exchange of clinical lab results | Laboratory Logical Observation Identifier Name Codes - LOINC |
on May 6, 2004 DHHS & Dept of Vet Affairs adopted | 15 more uniform standards for electronic exchange of clinical health information |
vocabulary standards for demographic info, units of measure, immunizations, clinical encounters & Clinical Document Architecture for test-based reports (5 standards) | HL7 standards adopted on May 6, 2004 by DHHS & Dept of Vet Affair under CHI initiative |
standards for lab results contents, nonlab interventions/procedures, anatomy, diagnosis/problems & nursing | CAPs Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms |
standardize electronic exchange of lab test orders & drug label headers | Laboratory Logical Observation Identifier Name Codes |
transactions & code sets for electronic exchange of health related info to perform billing/administrative functions | HIPPA |
standards for exchanging info regarding role of genes in biomedical research in federal health sector | Human Gene Nomenclature - HUGH |
will help transition to nationwide EHRs by providing DHHS w/input & recommendations on how to make health records digital & interoperable & ensure privacy/security | American Health Information Community - AHIC |
electronic prescribing standards, demonstration programs that include incentive for HIT, & long-term care demonstrations leveraging info tech | Doctor's Office Quality Information Technology - DOQ-IT |
work w/consumers & physicians, hospitals, & other caregivers to refine care delivery systems to ensure patients get right care at right time | Quality Improvement Organization - QIO |
responsible to ensure payment is made, by Medicare, only for medically necessary services & investigates complaints about quality of care | QIO |
in 2005 QIO assistance to physicians expands from broad focus on improving preventative & chronic care to | helping groups of practices in each state |