Safety, Quality and Value

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Across
  1. 2. _________Care This event is any aspect of required care that is omitted either in part or whole or delayed
  2. 4. This organization was established in 1999 by the federal government to improve quality and safety
  3. 6. Abbreviation for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act which institutionalized the use of health informatics to assess quality, improve clinical care and lower costs.
  4. 7. Health informatics has significantly improved healthcare in the last decade through monitoring and improvement activities and _____ activities
  5. 10. One example of these are electronic health systems that are integrated into the EHR tha allow physicians to electronically order medications.
  6. 11. _________Cause Analysis This type of analysis attempts to discover causal events.
  7. 12. This type of unexpected event does NOT reach the patient.
  8. 13. The IOM report, To Err is Human, Building a Safer Health System focused on ________ and quality in healthcare and identified over 100,000 deaths caused by medical errors.
Down
  1. 1. In 2009 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed. It included the _________ Act which authorized the use of financial incentives to promote the meaningful use of EHRs to improve safety and quality.
  2. 3. From the IOM perspective quality is a set of 6 aspirational goals including safe, effective, timely, efficient, patient-centered and ___________ care.
  3. 5. The Act signed in 1999 designed to make health insurance more affordable and accessible and it included important provisions to address the transmission and privacy issues related to electronic personal health information.
  4. 8. This event is an unexpected and undesired and reached the patient.
  5. 9. Check boxes contain _________ data in the EHR record.
  6. 10. Abbreviation for type of software designed to directly aid in clinical decision making in which characteristics of health individual patients are matched to a computerized knowledge base.
  7. 12. This is a program that takes as its input the clinicians electronic free text and it returns as its output the meaning of the text.