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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 |