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Health Information Glossary

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