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| Registry: (generally) specified data repositories on patients or conditions that include patient demographics, conditions, and treatments. used to capture health care information on defined groups of patients, diseases, and other dimensions of medical practice. |
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| RLS Research Locator Service |
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| RLS Record Locator Service: key service provided by an HIE that allows health care entity information on their patients to remain decentralized. The RLS serves as an index on the location of patient records. also used to route patient health data transactions to physicians and entities authorized by the patient to receive such information. |
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| Telehealth: The use of telecommunications and information technology to deliver health services and transmit health information over distance. Sometimes called telemedicine. |
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| Teleradiology: A form of telemedicine that involves electronic transmission of radiographic patient images and consultative text. |
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| ANSI (American National Standards Institute) |
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| ANSI (American National Standards Institute): The U.S. standards organization that establishes procedures for the development and coordination of voluntary American National Standards. |
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| ANSI X12 Version 5010: HIPAA requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt required standards for covered entities to use when conducting certain health care transactions electronically, such as claims, remittance advices, and requests and responses for eligibility and claims status. Covered entities include health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers. The current transaction standard is X12 version 4010A1 for health care claims, remittance advices, eligibility, claims status, referrals, and NCPDP version 5.1 for pharmacy claims. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has mandated that the industry upgrade to X12 version 5010 and NCPDP version D.0. On January 1, 2012, standards for electronic health care transactions change from version 4010/4010A1 to version 5010. These electronic health care transactions include functions like claims, eligibility inquiries, and remittance advices. Unlike the current version 4010/4010A1, version 5010 accommodates the ICD10 codes, and must be in place first before the changeover to ICD10. |
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| EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) |
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| EDI (Electronic Data Interchange): A direct exchange of data between two computers via the Internet or other network, using shared data formats and standards. |
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| CCR (Continuity of Care Record) |
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| CCR (Continuity of Care Record): intended to foster and improve continuity of patient care, to reduce medical errors, and to assure at least a minimum standard of health information transportability when a patient is referred or transferred to another provider. |
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| HLV v.3 Current CCD Standard: The HL7 Continuity of Care Document |
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| HLV v.3 Current CCD Standard: The HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD) attempts to capture a patient’s health summary. describing various document sections, such as patient demographics, insurance information, diagnosis and problem list, medications, allergies and care plan that collectively can represent a snapshot of a patient’s health data. |
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| IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) |
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| IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise): IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. aims to create a process through which interoperability can be implemented. gathers case requirements, identifies available standards, and develops technical guidelines that manufacturers can implement. |
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| HITSC (Health IT Standards Committee) |
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| HITSC (Health IT Standards Committee): The HIT standards committee was established for developing, recognizing, and harmonizing standards, as well as implementation specifications. |
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| HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement |
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| HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement: The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information. The HIPAA Security Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information that is created, received, used, or maintained by a covered entity. The Security Rule requires appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards. The HIPAA Enforcement Rule contains provisions relating to compliance and investigations, the imposition of civil money penalties for violations of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Rules, and procedures for hearings. |
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| HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement: Authorization |
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| Authorization: “authorization” is required by the Privacy Rule for uses and disclosures of protected health information not otherwise allowed by the Rule. An authorization is a detailed document that gives covered entities permission to use protected health information for specified purposes, which are generally other than treatment, payment, or health care operations, or to disclose protected health information to a third party specified by the individual. |
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| BA (Business Associate): A person or organization that performs a function or activity on behalf of a covered entity, but is not part of the covered entity's workforce. |
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| BAA (Business Associate Agreement) |
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| BAA (Business Associate Agreement): The agreement standard document that clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of a business associate and the covered entity. |
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| Breach: A breach is, generally, an impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health information such that the use or disclosure poses a significant risk of financial, reputational, or other harm to the affected individual. |
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| Breach Notification Rule: The regulations requiring HIPAA covered entities and their business associates to provide notification following a breach of unsecured protected health information. |
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