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EHR2 Ch2
SPSONSI Electronic Health Records - Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - established standards for accountability, confidentiality and protection of personal health information (PHI) transported electronically. |
CHI | Consolidated Health Informatics - 2003 a federal government initiative that seeks to provide adoption of health information interoperability standards for health VOCABULARY STANDARDS and MESSAGING STANDARDS. |
CCHIT | Certification Comission for Health Information Technology - non-government organization that credentials EHR programs. |
PHI | Protected Health Information - protection under HIPAA of any past, presnt or future medical and mental health condition in any form, whether oral or recorded. |
HL7 | Health Level Seven - MESSAGING AND VOCABULARY standard for demographic information, units of measure, immunizations, clinical encounters for text-based reports. (i.e. scheduling, orders, tests, admittances, discharges, and transfers). |
NCPDP | National Council on Presription Drug Programs - standards for the transfer of data to and from retail pharmacies (i.e. prescriptions, services, rebates, ID cards). |
IEEE 1073 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - international organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. 1073 format is Point of Care Medical Device Communication Device Standards for interoperability among medical devices. |
DICOM | Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine - enables x-rays and diagnostic images to be accessed and transferred from various manufacturers devices and workstations. |
LOINC | Laboratory Logical Observation Identifier Name Codes - standards for the electronic transfer of clinical laboratory results. |
SNOMED-CT | Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms - standard terminology that enables a consistent way of capturing, sharing, and aggregating health data across specialties (i.e. laboratory results, anatomy, diagnosis, medical problems and nursing). |
FDA | Food and Drug Administration - medication standards for medication names, codes for ingredients, dosage forms, drug products and medication packaging. |
NLOM | National Library of Medicine - set descriptions of clinical drugs and drug classifications. RxNORM |
HUGN | Human Genome Nomenclature - standards for the transfer of information about the role of genes in biomedical research. |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency - standards for nonmedicinal chemicals important to health care through the Substance Registry System. |
MIPPA | Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - enacted by Congress in 2008 provides positive incentives for practitioners that use e-prescribing (ability to transmit prescriptions and alerts electronically). |