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| The science of developing and using computer databases and algorithms to hasten and improve biological—and pharmaceutical—research. |
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| CCN (CMS Certification Numbers) |
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| In order to avoid confusion with the NPI, the Medicare/Medicaid Provider Number has been renamed the CCN. When the Medicare/Medicaid Provider Number (also known as the Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) Number; Medicare Identification Number; or provider number) is requested, the CCN should be provided. |
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| A list that describes the specifications and locations of all data contained in a system. |
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| A list of medications (both generic and brand names) that are covered by a specific health insurance plan or pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), used to encourage utilization of more cost-effective drugs. Hospitals sometimes use formularies of their own, for the same reason. |
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| HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) |
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| Each year, in the United States, health care insurers process over 5 billion claims for payment. For Medicare and other health insurance programs to ensure that these claims are processed in an orderly and consistent manner, standardized coding systems are essential. The HCPCS Level II Code Set is one of the standard code sets used for this purpose. The HCPCS is divided into two principal subsystems, referred to as Level I and Level II of the HCPCS. Level I of the HCPCS is comprised of CPT (Current Procedural Terminology), a numeric coding system maintained by the American Medical Association (AMA). Level II of the HCPCS is a standardized coding system that is used primarily to identify products, supplies, and services not included in the CPT codes, such as ambulance services, and durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) when used outside a physician’s office. Because Medicare and other insurers cover a variety of services, supplies, and equipment that are not identified by CPT codes, the Level II HCPCS codes were established for submitting claims for these items. |
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| Health informatics, health care informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies,and information and communication systems. It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and (bio) medical research. |
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| HIM (Health Information Management) |
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| The practice of maintenance and care of health records by traditional and electronic means in hospitals, physician's office clinics, health departments, health insurance companies, and other facilities that provide health care or maintenance of health records. |
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| HIT (Health Information Technology) |
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| The application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making. |
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| HMIS (Health Management Information Systems) |
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| The management best practices to provide effective use of Health Information Technology and ensure Health Information Management. |
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| HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) |
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| The basic programming language for sites on the World Wide Web. This “skeleton” of code surrounds blocks of text and/or images and contains all the necessary commands and display instructions. A Web browser program is needed to interpret HTML and depict it as a graphical display on a computer screen. |
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| ICD-9 (International Classification of Disease- 9th Revision) |
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| International disease classification system developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that provides a detailed description of known diseases and injuries. The classification system is used worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems and automated decision support in medicine. |
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| ICD-10 (International Classification of Disease- 10th Revision) |
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| ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and came into use in WHO Member States as from 1994. In the United States, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is preparing for the U.S. health care industry's change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding. ICD-10 codes must be used on all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims with dates of service, and inpatient claims with dates of discharge on and after October 1, 2013. |
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| Informatics or Information Science |
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| The study of information. It is often, though not exclusively, studied as a branch of Computer Science and Information Technology (IT) and is related to database, ontology and software engineering. Informatics is primarily concerned with the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information. Informatics also includes studying the application of information in organizations, on its usage and the interaction between people, organizations and information systems. |
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| LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names & Codes) |
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| LOINC is one of a suite of designated standards for use in the Federal Government systems for the electronicexchange of clinical health information. It was developed in 1994 and is maintained by the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., a US non-profit medical research organization. LOINC is likely to become a HIPAA standard for some segments of the Claims Attachment transaction. In 1999, it was identified by the HL7 Standards Development Organization as a preferred code set for laboratory test names in transactions between health care facilities, laboratories, laboratory testing devices, and public health authorities. |
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| The solutions and databases created by Multum are central to many clinical decision support systems, electronic health records, and integrated healthcare support systems currently in use by multiple acute care and home care providers. Multum’s drug information is a core component of these applications. |
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| The process of redefining clinical data based on predefined rules. The values are redefined based on a specific formula or technique. |
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| NPI (National Provider Identifier) |
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| The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 requires the adoption of a standard unique identifier for health care providers. The NPI Final Rule issued January 23, 2004 adopted the NPI as this standard. The NPI is a 10-digit, intelligence free numeric identifier (10 digit number). Intelligence free means that the numbers do not carry information about health care providers, such as the state in which they practice or their provider type or specialization. The NPI will replace health care provider identifiers in use today in HIPAA standard transactions. Those numbers include Medicare legacy IDs (UPIN, OSCAR, PIN, and National Supplier Clearinghouse or NSC). The provider’s NPI will not change and will remain with the provider regardless of job or location changes. |
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| data standard electronic prescription transaction data RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, MediSpan, Gold Standard Alchemy, and Multum. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary. |
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| SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Clinical Terms) |
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| SNOMED CT is a systematically organized computer processable collection of medical terminology covering most areas of clinical information such as diseases, fi ndings, procedures, microorganisms, pharmaceuticals etc. It allows a consistent way to index, store, retrieve, and aggregate clinical data across specialties and sites of care. It also helps organizing the content of medical records, reducing the variability in the way data is captured, encoded and used for clinical care of patients and research. |
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| SQL (Structured Query Language) |
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| A standard command language used to interact with a database. |
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| UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
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The UMLS is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences. It provides a mapping structure among these vocabularies and thus allows one to translate among the various terminology systems; it may also be viewed as a comprehensive thesaurus
and ontology of biomedical concepts. UMLS further provides facilities for natural language processing. It is intended to be used mainly by developers of systems in medical informatics. |
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| WML (Wireless Markup Language) |
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| Web development language that allows Web sites to format content to fit the small screens and limited storage and processing capabilities of mobile devices. |
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| Extensible Markup Language is a general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, Geography Markup Language (GML), Physical Markup Language (PML) are defined in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form. XML is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. XML’s design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format, with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Although XML’s design focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures, for example in web services. It is common for XML to be used in interchanging data over the Internet. |
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