Question | Answer |
Abbreviated Injury Scale | A set of numbers used in trauma registy to indicate the nature and severity of an injury by body system |
Abstracting | Process of extracting information from a document to create a summary |
Accept assignment | A situation in which a provider or supplier accepts, as payment in full, the allowed charge (from the fee scheudule) |
Access control | Means of identifying which employees should be allowed to retrieve what data |
Accession number | Number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry |
Accounts receivable | Payments recieved from third-party payers |
Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Healthcare | Professional org. that accredits amb. or outpt setting such as single specialty & multio specialty group practices, ASC, col/univ health services, & comm health centers |
Accreditation organizations | Professional organization that set standards against which healthcare orgs. are measured to ensure the quality of their services |
Accreditation standards | Predefined statements of criteria against which the performance of participating hc orgs. will be assessed during the voluntary accreditiation process |
Accredited Standards Committee X12, Electronic Data Interchange (ASC X12) | Committe charatered by the American National Standards Institute to develop uniform standards for the electronic interchange of business transactions |
Action steps | Specific plans the hc org hopes to accomplish in the near future |
Activities of daily living | (ADL) Basic activities of self-care, including grooming, bathing, ambulating, toileting, and eating |
Acute care | Medical care of a limited duration, provided in a hosp. or outpt setting, to treat an injury or short term illness |
Acute care prospective payment system | (PPS) System that uses DRG classification as the basis for reimbursement of hospitals for inpt. services provided to Medicare & Medicaid beneficiaries |
Actor | Role a user plays in a system |
Acute care | Medical care of a limited duration, provided in a hosp./ outpt setting, to treat an injury or short term illness |
administriative controls | Policies and produres that address the mgmt. of computer resources |
administrative information systems | category of health infomaiton systems includees systems to support HR mgmt, financial mgmt., executive decision support, and other primarily administrative functions |
administrative law | rules and regulations developed by various administrive bodies empowered by Congress; falls under umbrella of public law |
administrative services only contract | (ASO) Agreement between an employer and the insurer that administer the employer's self-insurance plan |
admission utilization review | review of planned services (internsity of service) &/or pt's cond. (severity of illness) to determine whether the care must be delivered in an acute inpatient setting |
advance directive | declaration a pt. makes regarding his/her care in anticipation of being incompetent to make care decisions in the future |
affinity grouping | technique for organizating similiar ideas together in natural groupings |
agency of healthcare research and quality | (AHRQ) Branch of the US public health service that supports gen. health research & distributes findings and guidelines |
aggregate data | data extracted from individual pt. records and combined to form information about groups of pts. |
allied health professionals | healthcare workers other than physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, including physical therapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, and others |
alphanumeric filing system | health record filing system that uses a combination of alphabetic letter and numbers for identification purposes |
ambulatory care | Preventive or correctice hc provided in a provider's office, clinic setting, or hosp. that does not require an overnight stay |