HIM 203 - Week 5 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. A method of encoding text from analog paper into bitmapped images and translating the images into a form that is computer readable.
  2. 6. An information system that gathers data from a variety of sources and assists in providing structure to the data by using various analytical models and visual tools in order to facilitate and improve the ultimate outcome in decision-making tasks associated with the nonroutine and nonrepetitive problems.
  3. 7. The process an organization undertakes that will improve clinical specificity and documentation that will allow coding professionals to assign more concise disease and procedural classification codes.
  4. 10. The broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.
  5. 12. A plastic card, similar in appearance to a credit card, with a computer chip embedded in it. They have been widely adopted for use in banking, retail, government, and other applications. Uses in healthcare include emergency treatment, reducing fraud and abuse, and reducing administrative costs.
  6. 15. A system that automatically collects and stores patient data from various information systems used in healthcare. Data collected include fetal monitoring, vital signs, and oxygen saturation rates.
  7. 16. The management of the accounts receivable and the accounts payable on a daily basis by the healthcare facility.
  8. 17. A clinical drug nomenclature developed by the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and HL7 to provide standard names for clinical drugs and administered dose forms. It also provides normalized names for drugs and links names to commercial drug databases that are frequently used in pharmacy management and information systems in EHRs.
  9. 19. Pages that contain only a barcode that tells the scanner and, ultimately, the computer the content of the pages that follow. The barcode may contain the form name, the patient name, or some other piece of information.
  10. 20. The major information system used by a healthcare facility; is made up of many administrative systems, such as the financial information system and the MPI.
Down
  1. 1. A system that manages the business of healthcare that is the first information system to be used in healthcare. The data collected in this system are mainly financial or business-oriented in nature, rather than clinical.
  2. 2. A decision support system that is designed to be used by healthcare administrators.
  3. 3. A phonetic-based indexing system that is easily incorporated into computer software for searching surnames that sound alike but are spelled differently.
  4. 5. A system that collects and stores medical, nursing, clinical ancillary areas (such as radiology and laboratory), and therapy department information related to patient care.
  5. 8. A critical system to the fiscal health of the healthcare facility; receive accurate financial information in a timely manner to monitor and manage the finances of the healthcare facility.
  6. 9. An integrated information system that obtains, stores, retrieves, and displays digital images.
  7. 11. A database that provides access to multiple repositories of information from overlapping patient populations that are maintained in separate information systems and databases.
  8. 13. The format of a barcode.
  9. 14. Can be local to the healthcare organization or remote and use cloud computing. These are able to retrieve health data acquired by the organization from any storage location.
  10. 18. The use of robotics to perform surgery.