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Health Business Final Terms
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Health Care
Undergraduate 2
12/08/2010

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Access
Definition
The opportunity or right to see or approach someone.
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Age Wave
Definition
The impact of the large population of Americans born between 1946 and 1964.
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Authority
Definition
The right to direct orders and to give orders.
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Brainstorming
Definition
A group creativity technique designed to generate several ideas for the solution to a problem.
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Capitation
Definition
A system that pays physicians or health care organizations a fixed monthly amount for each individual in the plan, regardless of whether they are treated or not.
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Continuum of Care
Definition
In medicine, describes the delivery of health care over a PERIOD OF TIME. In patients with a disease, this covers all phases of illness from diagnosis to the END OF LIFE.
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Controlling
Definition
The managerial function concerned with ENSURING plans are followed, that performance matches the plan, and that objects are achieved.
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Coordination
Definition
The LINKING together of activities in the organization to achieve the desired results.
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Fee-for-service
Definition
The traditional method of reimbursement where "THE MORE YOU DO, THE MORE YOU MAKE."
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Hawthorne effect
Definition
the phenomenon that people CHANGE their BEHAVIOR when they know they are being studied.
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HIPAA
Definition
The health insurance protability and accountability act of 1996 addresses several issues, most importantly security and privacy of health data.
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Influencing
Definition
The managerial function concerned with issuing directives and ordering in such a way that STAFF RESPOND in order to accomplish the job.
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Managed Care
Definition
Health insurance where allocation of health care benefits are MANAGED BY AN ADMINISTRATIVE FIRM rather than a private practitioner.
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Management
Definition
GETTING THINGS DONE THROUGH and WITH PEOPLE by directing and motivating the efforts of individuals through common objectives.
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Management by Objectives - MBO
Definition
Managers and subordinates use this system to SET GOALS and USE PROGRESS TOWARDS THOSE GOALS as MEASURES of success.
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Medicare
Definition
The US FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED AND FUNDED HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS OVER 65. As well as disabled.
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Organizing
Definition
The managerial function concerned with designing a STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK.
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Paradigm
Definition
A BELIEF, a model, or a way of viewing the world.
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Pay-for-performance
Definition
A system that PAYS clinicians BASED on their ability to meet specific quality and efficiency MEASURES.
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Planning
Definition
The managerial function concerned with developing a SYSTEMATIC APPROACH for attaining the goals of the organization.
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Primary Care
Definition
The work of health care professionals who act as a FIRST POINT of consultation for all patients.
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Provider
Definition
A person who DELIVERS proper health CARE in a systematic way professionally to any individual in need of health care services.
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Semantics
Definition
The study of meaning changes in meaning and the principles that govern the relationship between sentences or WORDS an their meaning.
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Specialization
Definition
A technique used to DIVIDE WORK activities into easily managed tasks and assign those tasks to individuals BASED ON THEIR SKILLS.
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Staffing
Definition
The managerial function concerned with the procurement and maintenance of HUMAN RESOURCES.
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SWOT
Definition
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
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Tertiary Care
Definition
Highly specialized INPATIENT CARE, normally in a health care facility that specializes in that type of care, such as a heart institute.
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Theory X
Definition
Employees perform best under supervision involving close control, centralized authority, authoritarian practices, and MINIMAL PARTICIPATION IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.
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Theory Y
Definition
Employees may be AMBITIOUS, SELF-MOTIVATED, anxious to accept greater responsibility, and exercise self-control, self-direction, autonomy and empowerment.
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